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

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Category

Print

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

Last Updated

07 Jan 2013