Title

Neuhollander/ Zusammentreffen mit den Wilden [New Hollander/ Meet with the wild ones]

Source

unknown German publication

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986),

Date made

1807 – 1830s

Place made

Europe, Germany View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone; hand-coloured

Support

thin white wove paper

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression as issued

Edition information

print run unknown

Inscriptions or device subsequently added to the work

Typed sticker verso, 'WHITE CONFRONTATION WITH W.A. ABORIGINES./1840 CIRCA--SHARK BAY/WESTERN AUSTRALIA'. Pencil inscription below, 'German print of Arago in/Shark Bay 1817/18 ...[illeg]/ Giving aborigines presents'.

Subject description

A German composite of three of Petit's engravings from Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes by Francois Auguste Peron. Titled below the images: Neuhollander (Cour-ron-bari-gal; Neuholl„nder (Y-erren-gou-la-ga); Zusammentreffen mit den Wilden

IRN

204608

Accession number

2010.1021

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2010/2011 (2010-10-26)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Marie Louise Wordsworth, Perth, October 2010.

Credit line

The Wordsworth Collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2010

Subject categories

Voyages of exploration and discovery 1600-1900: French | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.