A series of twelve profile portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales. Drawn from life and on stone.
Primary Artist
William Fernyhough (1809–1849)
Title
A series of twelve profile portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales. Drawn from life and on stone.
Physical description
12 plates, verso blank. Issued in yellow printed title wrappers, the twelfth plate repeated on the verso of the lower wrapper.
Source
A series of twelve profile portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales by W. H. Fernyhough. Sydney: J. G. Austin and Co., 1836
Page or Plate number
collection record
Reference
Ferguson (1941-69, 1986), 2123
Date made
1836
Place made
Australia, Australia, New South Wales, Sydney View on map Close map
Category
Print type
planographic
Technique
pen-lithographs, printed in black ink, each from one zinc plate; letterpress text
Matrix size
22.4 x 28.4 cm (book (closed))
Support
white wove Fellows paper
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
22657
Accession number
2000.6.1-14
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 4, 1999/2000 (2000-02-23)
Provenance
Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Hordern House, Sydney, February 2000; From the catalogue, 'Rare books, manuscripts, paintings and prints', Sydney: Hordern House, 1999, cat, no., 33.
Credit line
Purchased 2000
Subject categories
Portrait | Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales | Aboriginal Australians
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Fernyhough, William. | (1809–1849) Australian | English | Male | artist
J.G. Austin & Co. | (1836–1837) Australian | Organisation | publisher