Aboriginal Australians - Boats
[White, John] 1756?-1832 :View of Port Jackson in New Suoth [sic] Wales. [1790 or later?]
Date: 1790 - 1800
By: White, John, 1756?-1832
Reference: A-251-014
Description: Shows Aborigines in canoes close to shore, one with a fire lit in a canoe. A man on shore is wielding a spear A plate from an unknown book after a painting attributed to John White. His Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (London? J. Debrett, 1790) has a very similar image as its title page illustration. Other Titles - South Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 192 x 250 mm
Artist unknown :Merry Creek (Plenty Ranges, 1864).
Date: 1863 - 1864
From: Troedel, Charles (Johannes Thedor Carl), 1835-1906 :The Melbourne album, containing a series of views of Melbourne & country districts. Melbourne, [ca 1863-64].
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.