Primary Artist

William Baker (1806–1857)

Title

Biddy Salmander, Broken Bay tribe.

Date made

1838 – c.1840

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

chalk-lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower centre below image in black ink, 'BIDDY SALMANDER. / Broken Bay Tribe. / Printed & Published by W. Baker, King St Sydney.'. No date.

Matrix size

13.8 x 11.1 cm (printed image (irregular))

Edition information

print run unknown

Production notes

This work is an unacknowledged copy of the portrait in the lithograph 'Biddy Salamander. Broken-Bay Tribe. [and] Bulkabra, Chief of Botany, N.S. Wales [and] Gooseberry. Queen of Bungaree, N.S.Wales.' by Charles Rodius, 1834.

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales | Aboriginal Australians: Portrait, female

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

34354

Creators

Baker, William. | (1806–1857) Australian | Irish | Male | artist

Rodius, Charles. | (1802–1860) Australian | German | Male | print after