Nouvelle Hollande: Baie des Chiens-marins Presque île Peron , entrevue avec les sauvages [New Holland: Shark Bay, Peron Peninsula. Meeting with the savages]

Title

Nouvelle Hollande: Baie des Chiens-marins Presque île Peron , entrevue avec les sauvages [New Holland: Shark Bay, Peron Peninsula. Meeting with the savages]

Date made

1825

Reference

Ferguson (1941-69, 1986),

Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

engraving, printed in black ink, from one copper plate; hand-coloured at a later date

Text printed from matrix

Printed lower centre below image in black ink, 'N.LLE HOLLANDE: Baie des Chiens-marins, Presqu'ile Peron: ENTREVUE AVEC LES SAUVAGES.'. Printed lower left below image in black ink, 'Js. Arago delint.'. Printed lower right below imagei n black ink, 'Duparc sculpt.'.

Edition information

print run unknown

Subject categories

Aboriginal Australians | Voyages of exploration and discovery 1600-1900: French | Australia, Art period: Colonial, Western Australia | Collection: The Wordsworth collection of Western Australian colonial art, acquired 2010.

Subject description

An encounter between Western Australian Aboriginal people and a French exploring party at Shark Bay, September 1818

Legacy id

204615

Last Updated

09 Jan 2013

Impressions

State

published state

Impression

undesignated impression with later hand-colouring

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