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Bungaree, wearing a breastplate

Bungaree, wearing a breastplate

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmeGB29

Bungaree, wearing a breastplate

About this item

Full title

Bungaree, wearing a breastplate

Date

approximately 1826

Call Numbers

P2/367

Record Identifier

YdmeGB29

Reference Code

52164

Formats

Physical Description

Contents

1 print - 24.4 x 17.5 cm (image and inscription), 34.2 x 24.9 cm (on sheet) - hand coloured lithograph cut out around outline of figure

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright

Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Issue Copy

Digitised

More information

Alternative Titles

Full title

Bungaree, wearing a breastplate

Notes

General note

A watercolour version of the lithograph is at PX*D 41 f.34 (Mitchell Library). It has also been cut out around Bungaree's body and stuck down onto another sheet of paper. Drawing of figure is similar to Augustus Earle's portrait lithograph of Bungaree cf. DL Pe 11 and P2/4 Mitchell Library.

Colour transparency digitised 1999

Digital order no:a4159001...

Signature / Inscriptions

Printed lower centre 'Bungaree. Lend me one Dump'; in pen at lower centre 'King of the Natives New Holland' and 'I swear I pay you again'.

Date note

Dated from date of publication of a similar lithograph of Bungaree in 1826 by Augustus Earle cf. DL Pe 11 and P2/4 Mitchell Library.

Contextual Information

Source

Purchased in 1992 with the assistance of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

P2/367

Record Identifier

YdmeGB29

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YdmeGB29

Other Identifiers

Reference code

52164

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