• Title
  Early engraved portraits relating to Australia
• Creator
  Rex Nan Kivell, 1899-1977
• Call number
  PXE 775
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1770-1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints, Photographs, Textual Records
• Reference code
  65909
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : Nos. 8a, 17, 19, 20c, 27a, 32a, 32c, 32d, 33b, 36.
  
• Physical Description
  0.03 metres of graphic and textual material - album (67 engravings, 15 photoprints, 1 textual material) - 40.3 x 33.7 cm - blue morocco with gilt designs embossed on covers and and gilt edges of 40 pages
  0.03 metres of textual material - 1 album - 22.1 x 33.5 cm - 1 volume of 288 roneoed pages bound in cloth-backed boards
  
• Scope and Content
  Volume 1
  
  2. Philips de derde (Phillip III, King of Spain) -- engraving
  3. William Dampier -- photoprint of oil painting (original in National Library of Australia)
  4. Captain William Dampier -- photoprint of engraving by Thomas Murray
  5a. Commissary John Palmer -- photoprint of late nineteenth century watercolour
  5b. Captain Arthur Phillip -- photoprint of late nineteenth century watercolour
  5c. Captain William Bligh -- photoprint of late nineteenth century watercolour
  5d. Captain Arthur Phillip -- photoprint of oil painting
  6. Capt.n James Cook F.R.S. -- 1784 aquatint by Francis Bartolozzi after John Webber
  7. Capt.n James King L.L.D. F.R.S. -- 1784 aquatint by Francis Bartolozzi after John Webber
  8a. Sir J.ph Banks (Voyageur-Naturaliste) -- stipple engraving after Ambroise Tardieu
  8b. Sir Joseph Banks Bart. -- line engraving by Wagstaff after Thomas Phillips
  8c. J. Banks -- 1835 line engraving by Hewrdiviller
  8d. Dr. solander. -- line engraving
  9. (Sir Joseph Banks) -- 1789 J. Collyer line engraving (without letters) after John Russell
  10. Sir George Young Kn.t Admiral of the White Squadron -- 1814 stiple engraving by Blood after John Smart
  11. Sr. Arthur Philip. Esqr. -- stipple engraving by Ermer?
  12. Captain John Hunter -- 1792 stipple engraving by D. Orme after Robert Dighton
  13. John Hunter -- photoprint of oil portrait by William Bennett (original now in National Library of Australia)
  14. Lieut.-Governor Francis Grose -- photoprint of engraving
  15a. Lieut.t Shortland. -- stipple engraving by W. Sherwin after S. Shelley
  15b. David Collins Esqr. -- 1804 stipple engraving by A. Cardon after miniature by J.T. Barber
  16a. Captain Phillip Gidley King -- photoprint of late nineteenth century wood engraving
  16b. Surgeon Thomas Jamison -- photoprint of late nineteenth century (probably) oil painting
  16c. Governor Lachlan Macquarie -- oil painting sometimes said to be Governor Macquarie (original is at Windsor Court House)
  16d. Admiral Hervey -- photoprint of oil painting
  17. Perouse -- line engraving by Mague
  18. Lis Ane de Bougainville -- lithograph by de Delpech
  19. L. A. Bougainville -- line engraving by Forget
  20a. Rene Primevere Lesson -- 1827 line engraving by Ambroise Tardieu
  20b. Dr Balmain -- photoprint of oil painting
  20c. Bougainville Cook La Perouse Baudin Navigateurs-Decouvreurs -- 1836 line engraving
  21. George Shaw -- stipple engraving by Ambroise Tardieu
  22a. Major James George Semple Lisle -- line engraving
  22b. George Barrington -- 1801 stipple engraving by S. Chapman
  22c. Thomas Townsend Viscount Sydney -- photoprint of oil painting [possibly that in the Dixson Galleries at DG 191]
  22d. Major James George Semple Lisle -- 1799 stipple engraving by Harding
  23a. George Barrington, Late Officer of the Peace, at Parramatta -- 1803 stipple engraving
  23b. George Barrington. -- line engraving
  23c. David Brown Dingham George Barrington drawn from the life -- 1777 (London Magazine) line engraving
  23d. George Barrington, As He appear'd at the Bar of the Old Bailey, Drawn by an Artist during the Trial -- line engraving
  24a. Jos. Hunt. Aged. 27 -- 1823 etching
  24b. Joseph Hunt. -- etching
  24c. Jno. Thurtell. Jos. Hunt. W.m Probert. -- etching
  25a. Thomas White Midshipman at the Bar of the high Court of Justiciary for the Murder of William Jones Seaman on the Shore of Lieth on the 15th of June 1814. -- 1814 line engraving by J. Kay
  25b. W.m Probert Jos. Hunt. Jno. Thurtell -- line engraving
  26. Allan Cunningham -- photoprint of A. Pickens' lithograph
  27a. Capt: James Cook. F.R.S. -- 1790 line engraving by T. Hollonray after Nathaniel Dance
  27b. (James Cook commemorative medal designed by Lewis Pingo and struck by Royal Society in 1784) -- 1785 line engraving
  27c. Capt: James Cook, F.R.S. -- 1780 line engraving by J. Collyer after Nathaniel Dance
  27d. J. Cook. -- line engraving by Pigeot
  28a. Captain James Cook, F.R.S. -- hand coloured line engraving
  28b. Captain James Cook -- 1821 line engraving by Cosmo Armstrong after Nathaniel Dance
  28c. Capt: James Cook -- 1784 hand coloured line engraving
  28d. Captain James Cook -- stipple engraving by W. Holl after Nathaniel Dance
  29. (Lieut. Col. Molesworth Phillips) -- etching by A. Geddes
  30. James Cook -- 1788 line engraving by J. F. Bolt after Nathaniel Dance
  31. Lord George Gordon, President of the Protestant Association -- 1780 line engraving by R. Bran
  32a. Joseph Gerrald A Delegate to the British Convention -- 1784 line engraving by J. Kay
  32b. George Mealmaker, Author of the "Moral and Political Catechism of Man" -- 1793 line engraving by J. Kay
  32c. Citizen Skirving Secretary to the British Convention - A Tried Patriot and an Honest Man. -- 1794 line engraving by J. Kay
  32d. Citizen Margarot Delegate from the London Corresponding Society to the British Convention -- 1794 line engraving by J. Kay
  33a. (The Telegraph) -- 1952 printed text of poem by Thomas Muir
  33b. Illustrious Martyr in the glorious cause of truth of freedom and of equal laws (Thomas Muir) -- 1793 line engraving by J. Kay
  33c. Thomas Muir -- line engraving
  34a. Rob.t Watt -- 1794 line engraving by J. Kay
  34b. Richard Parker -- stipple engraving by Tassaert
  34c. Gen. Holt. The Leader of the Irish Rebels. -- line engraving
  34d. David Downe -- 1794 line engraving by J. Kay
  35a. Charles Sinclair. A Delegate to the British Convention -- 1794 line engraving by J. Kay
  35b. Citizen M. C. Browne. Delegate from the Sheffield & Leeds Const.l Soc.s to the British Convention. -- 1794 line engraving by J. Kay
  35c. Sir Joseph Banks. Bar.t K.B.: P.R.S. OB. 1820. -- Line engraving by H. Robinson after Sir Thomas Lawrence
  36. Laperous (La Perouse) -- hand coloured line engraving by Blanche
  37a. Captain Cook -- stipple engraving by Thomson
  37b. A Man Publickly Whipped in the Sessions House Yard in the Old Bailey -- line engraving
  37c. John Tawell -- wood engraving from The Pictorial Times, London, 1845
  38a. Sir Phillip Stephens Bt. -- photoprint of engraving
  38b. Dr. Hawkesworth. -- stipple engraving by Holl
  38c. Charles Lord Hawkesbury -- 1791 line engraving by C. Warren
  38d. The Monument erected in St. Pauls Cathedral to the Honory of Captains Mosse & Riou -- 1806 line engraving by S. Rawle (frontispiece to European Magazine vol. 49)
  38e. Rev.d J. Beazley. Sydney. New South Wales -- line engraving by J. Cochran from a photograph
  39a. John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. one of the editors of Cooks First Voyage -- line engraving
  39b. Captain James King, L.L.D. F.R.S. Capt.n Cook's Coadjutor in his Third & Last Voyage -- Line engraving
  39c. Sir Philip Stevens Bar.t -- 1810 stipple engraving by W. Ridley (published in the European Magazine)
  39d. The Right Honorable George Rose -- 1818 stipple engraving by T. Blood after Wivell
  
  Volume 2
  Titled "Portraits of people connected with Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas from 1579 to 1960 (with a few additions from Public Collections) in the Rex de. C. Nan Kivell collection ... by Rex de C. Nan Kivell, London, 1962".
  It is described as "Draft only of Text". The text is very close to that finally published in "Portraits of the Famous and Infamous"
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  One album of portrait engravings and one volume of descriptive text compiled by Rex Nan Kivell and Sydney Spence.
• Variant title
  
  Nos. 9, 27b, 33a title designated by cataloguer.
• General note
  
  These albums were compiled approximately 1962 by Rex Nan Kivell and Sydney Spence, from Nan Kivell's personal collection, and formed the basis of their book, "Portraits of the Famous and Infamous", London, 1970, Ref.1/F704.942/1A Mitchell Library
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823516
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Kay, John, 1742-1826
  Pingo, Lewis, b.1743
  
• Name
  Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
  Barrington, George, 1755-1804
  Beazley, Joseph, 1812-1898
  Bligh, William, 1754-1817
  Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811
  Browne, M. C., active 1794
  Collins, David, 1756-1810
  Dampier, William, 1652-1715.
  Downe, David, active 1794
  Gerrald, Joseph, 1763-1796
  Gordon, George, Lord, 1751-1793
  Grose, Francis, 1754-1814
  Hawkesworth, John, c.1715-1773
  Holt, Joseph, 1756-1826
  Hunt, Joseph, active 1823-1859
  Hunter, John, 1737-1821
  Jenkinson, Charles, 1727-1808
  King, James, 1750-1784
  King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808
  La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, Comte de, 1741-1788
  Lesson, Rene Primevere, 1794-1849
  Lisle, J. G. Semple (James George Semple)
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
  Margarot, Maurice, d.1816
  Mealmaker, George
  Muir, Thomas, 1765-1799
  Palmer, John, 1760-1833
  Parker, Richard, d.1797
  Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814
  Phillips, Molesworth, 1755-1832
  Probert, William
  Riou, Edward, 1762-1801
  Shaw, George, 1751-1813
  Shortland, John, 1769-1810
  Sinclair, Charles, active 1794
  Skirving, William
  Solander, Daniel Charles, 1733-1782
  Stephens, Phillip, Sir, 1725-1809
  Sydney, Thomas Townshend, Viscount, 1733-1800
  Tawell, John, 1784-1845
  Thurtell, John, 1794-1824
  Watt, Robert, d.1794
  White, Thomas
  
• Subject
  Punishment--New South Wales.
  Cunningham, Allan, 1791-1839
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  Portraits.
  Jamison, Thomas, 1745-1811.
  
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