The small outline of a national picture (The conciliation).
Primary Artist
Benjamin Duterrau (1767–1851)
Title
The small outline of a national picture (The conciliation).
Date made
1835
Place made
Australia, Australia, Tasmania, Hobart View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and stippling, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
Matrix size
22.6 x 28.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
wove paper
Support size
30.8 x 33.9 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Subject description
Compositional draft for 'The Conciliation', 1840, depicting George Augustus Robinson negotiating with a group of Tasmanian Aborigines to surrender their land to white settlers.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
71684
Accession number
87.1146
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 1, 1987/88 (1987-07-14)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National gallery, from Schedding Berry Fine Art, Sydney, 1987.
Credit line
Purchased 1987
Subject categories
Australia, Art period: Colonial, Tasmania | Aboriginal Australians: Portrait, group
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Duterrau, Benjamin. | (1767–1851) Australian | English | Male | artist