• Title
  Items 06-10: [Preparatory drawings and etchings at various states for the plate 'N.LLE HOLLANDE : Port Jackson. SAUVAGES DES MONTAGNES BLEUE. 1. Hara-o; 2. Karadra'] / Alphonse Pellion
• Call number
  PXD 923/6-10
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1819-1825
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials
• Reference code
  421720
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  ink drawing, 1 sepia wash drawing, and 3 etchings
  
• Scope and Content
  PXD 923/6
  hara-o Karadra :: pencil and ink drawing. 23.3 x 30.4 cm. Inscribed beneath image in pencil Voyages a Bathurst / Jeunes Sauvages de la Nouvelle du Sud dans leur camp. dapres nature. Paper is watermarked Montgolfier
  
  PXD 923/7
  [haro-o Karadra] :: sepia wash drawing, by Sebestian Leroy. 27.6 x 33 cm. Inscribed in ink at lower left Seb. Leroy.
  
  PXD 923/8
  N.LLE HOLLANDE : Port Jackson. SAUVAGES DES MONTAGNES BLEUE. 1. Hara-o; 2. Karadra :: stipple and line etching, before letters, titled in ink. 26.9 x 32.6 cm. At lower left in left in ink A. Pellion delin.t, and at lower right Forget sculp.t. In pencil at lower right 101. Above left hand figure in ink 1, and right hand figure 2. At top centre in ink collee
  
  PXD 923/9
  N.LLE HOLLANDE : Port Jackson. SAUVAGES DES MONTAGNES BLEUE. 1. Hara-o; 2. Karadra :: stipple and line etching. 24 x 32 cm. Title printed beneath image. Printed at lower left in left A. Pellion delin.t, and at lower right Forget sculp.t. These have been crossed out in red ink, and corrected with identical text. At lower right in red ink 101. At top right a black ink 100 has been crossed out in red ink.
  
  PXD 923/10
  N.LLE HOLLANDE : Port Jackson. SAUVAGES DES MONTAGNES BLEUE. 1. Hara-o; 2. Karadra :: stipple and line etching. 23 x 32 cm plate size, on sheet 33.5 x 49.2 cm. Title printed beneath image. Printed at lower left in left A. Pellion delin.t, and at lower right Forget sculp.t.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  From curator's acquisition notes, 2002,:
  This drawing depicts two Aboriginal men Pellion met on the lower Blue Mountains during his trip to Bathurst in late November 1819. Pellion wrote:
  'It was in one of these pleasant retreats that we first saw any of the wretched inhabitants of these lofty regions [ie the Blue Mountains]: there were only two; one a sick old man, lying kangaroo skins, near a fire, and receiving the attention of a younger man.
  Mr Lawson recognised this old man as Karadra, supreme chief or king of that part of the mountains. No one, according to him, had proved more dangerous to the English, many of whom had perished at his hand, without anyone being able to catch him in the act. For a long time, however, this man had been peacefully disposed towards the settlers...' (see Olive and W.L. Harvard, 'Some Early French visitors to the Blue Mountains and Bathurst' in the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. XXIV, 1938 p.250)
  The plate was published in the 'Atlas historique' of the official account of the expedition, 'Voyage autour du monde ...', 1825 as plate 101.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823921
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Leroy, Sebastien, -1832
  
• Topic
  engravings
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Vive la difference! : the French in NSW - State Library of New South Wales (7 June - 10 October, 2004). Applies to: No.6
  Bound for glory: exquisite books of French Pacific voyages - State Library of New South Wales (October 2006 - February 2007)
  Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (May 2013 - August 2013). Applies to: no. 7
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