• Title
  [Five portraits of Aborigines from around Sydney] / five pencil crayon drawings by Jacques Arago
• Creator
  Jacques Etienne Victoire Arago, 1790-1855
• Call number
  PXB 283
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1819 (dated from time artist was in Sydney)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  52166
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 5 charcoal drawings - ca. 8.5 x 5 cm images; 24.6 x 16.2 cm sheet - drawings are on leaves from a unbound sketchbook
  
• Collection history
  In 1982 drawings were in possession of Mr N. Tully, Sydney (Reference: Pic.Acc.5263 Mitchell Library). Sold at Sotheby's, Sydney, 29 October 1987 lots 144-148.
• Scope and Content
  1. Taran
  2. Timbere
  3. Broten
  4. Nani
  5. Abinghou
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  Drawings are engraved in Louis de Freycinet, Voyage autor du monde : Execute sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uraine et la Physicienne Atlas Historique, Paris 1825 plate 105 REF. ZML X980/20A Mitchell Library. In this plate the engraver has transposed Taran and Timbere's names.
  "Timbere" was issued as a lithograph in the French and English versions of Arago's account of the expedition -- "Timbere, Sauvage de la Nlle Galles du sud, en grand costume. (Relache au port Jackson.)" Promenade autour du monde Atlas Historique et Pittoresque, Paris 1822 REF. Q910.41/2A1 Mitchell Library -- "Timbere, a native of new south Wales, Taken when at port Jackson", Narrative of a voyage round the world, London 1823 opposite p.171 REF.Q910.41/2B2 Mitchell Library.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823406
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  At bottom of each sheet "Nlle Hollande J.A." -- each drawing titled at top
• Name
  Abinghou
  Broten
  Nani
  Taran
  Timbere
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998). Applies to: Nos.1-5
  Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (June 2006 - August 2006). Applies to: No.2
  Lines in the sand - Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. Applies to: No.2
  Australian Portraits Timeline - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (December 2008 - December 2011). Applies to nos.1-3;4
  Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (September 2010 - December 2010). Applies to : no.3
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE943783

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