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[Corroboree on the Murray River] / by Gerard Krefft, 1858

[Corroboree on the Murray River] / by Gerard Krefft, 18...
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[Corroboree on the Murray River] / by Gerard Krefft, 1858

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[Corroboree on the Murray River] / by Gerard Krefft, 1858

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Full title

[Corroboree on the Murray River] / by Gerard Krefft, 1858

Date

1858

Call Numbers

DG XV/1

Record Identifier

nZNv87Jn

Reference Code

423229

Formats

Physical Description

Contents

Drawings - 57.5 x 82.5 cm. - 1 watercolour drawing on paper

Other Descriptions

Level of description

Fonds

Access and use

Copying Conditions

Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955

Please acknowledge: : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales

Issue Copy

Digitised

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Alternative Titles

Full title

[Corroboree on the Murray River] / by Gerard Krefft, 1858

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Described in Christie's Sale of Paintings and Drawings... of the Pacific, 1974 as ""A war dance among the Aborigines of Australia on the Murray River""

Related Material: See also similar image [Corroboree], in Gerard Krefft - album of watercolour drawings, ca. 1857-1858, 1861, 1866 (PXD 9/20)

Digital order no:a128454

Signature / Inscriptions

Signed "G. Krefft" and dated on lower right of image

Object History

Previously owned by the Royal Geographical Society, London. It is initialled, stamped, and dated by the Society, "26th 6/58"

Contextual Information

Source

Purchased from Christies Sale, 17 May 1974, Lot 96
Formerly at DG 422
Transfer from DG XV* file, June 2003

Exhibited in

Administrative / Biographical history

For biographical information on Krefft see: Gerard Krefft - pictorial and manuscript collection, ca. 1856-1884, 1891, 1894-1895

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

DG XV/1

Record Identifier

nZNv87Jn

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNv87Jn

Other Identifiers

Reference code

423229

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