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
1835Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and stippling, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
Text printed from matrix
Printed lower centre below image, 'Design etch'd & published by B.r Duterrau July 15th 1835 Hobart Town Van Diemen's Land'.
Matrix size
22.6 x 28.0 cm (plate-mark)
Edition information
print run unknown
Subject categories
Australia, Art period: Colonial, Tasmania | Aboriginal Australians: Portrait, group
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.
Country of context
Australia
Legacy id
71684
Creators
Duterrau, Benjamin. | (1767–1851) Australian | English | Male | artist
Impressions
Collection
National Gallery of Australia | 87.1146
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
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