IMAGE
Artist unknown :Merry Creek (Plenty Ranges, 1864).
- Date
- 1863 - 1864
- Reference
- PUBL-0052-19
- Description
Shows a group of Australian aborigines beside a stream. In the left foreground a family group sits or stands beside a shelter made of tree branches and tends a campfire. Two dogs sit beside them. In the centre slightly further away, four men stand in a small canoe by the bank of the stream. One holds a flaming brand. At the right, a man with a long spear walks towards the campfire. The moon is out in the evening sky.
Extended Title - In "The Melbourne album" by the lithographer and publisher Charles Troedel (Melbourne, 1863-64). [Plate 19
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on page of album..
Physical Description: 1 lithograph, hand-coloured, page size 395 x 525 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s) on page of album., Works of art, Lithographs, Ethnographic illustrations, Group portraits, Albums, 1 lithograph, hand-coloured, page size 395 x 525 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Artist unknown :Merry Creek (Plenty Ranges, 1864).. Troedel, Charles (Johannes Thedor Carl), 1835-1906 :The Melbourne album, containing a series of views of Melbourne & country districts. Melbourne, [ca 1863-64].. Ref: PUBL-0052-19. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23232800More information can be found in our terms of use.