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
1825Reference
Ferguson (1941-69, 1986),
Category
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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