• Title
  Item 01: Tara [&] Perva / pen and ink portrait of two Aboriginal men by Alphonse Pellion
• Call number
  PXD 923/1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  421718
• Physical Description
  Drawings - Pen drawing on laid paper watermarked Annonay - 30.3 x 23.5 cm.
  
• General note
  
  From curator's acquisition notes, 2002,:
  It would seem that this drawing depicts two young Aboriginal men from the Nepean district Pellion met whilst staying at Regentville in late November 1819.
  It was not published in the 'Atlas historique of the official account of the expedition, Voyage autour du monde ...', 1825.
  Tara, the figure on the left wearing a tail coat, appears - upper body only - in plate 100 of the 'Atlas historique' (see PXD 923/2-5) but with his right sleeve, in tact in this drawing, missing.
  Digital order no:a346001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed beneath image in pencil Voyages a Bathurst / Jeunes Sauvages de la Nouvelle du Sud dans leur camp. dapres nature. Paper is watermarked Annonay
• Exhibited in
  
  Vive la difference! : the French in NSW - State Library of New South Wales (7 June - 10 October, 2004)
  More easily imagined: crossings of the Blue Mountains - Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3201029

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