Folio 07: Corrobborree / Or Dance of the Natives of New South Wales. / New Holland.

PXD 373/7

item

c. 1818

Graphic Materials, Prints

118321

Digitised

Prints - 37.6 x 56.7 cm inside frame lines; 44.1 x 63.1 cm paper size - 1 line engraving with etching on thin wove paper, cut irregularly and with small paper loss at bottom right

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

It has been suggested that Lycett is the artist of the original drawing from which this drawing has been made - see collection record.

In the text which accompanies the London issue of these plates, Wallis says of this image "All the principal figures in the fore-ground are from original portraits: the tall figure, laughing, on the left, is the chieftain or king of the Newcastle tribe, called Buriejou" (ie, Burigon or Jack)

Reference:
James Wallis, An historical account of the colony of New South Wales..., London, 1821 p.40 Mitchell Library reference F981/W

An oil painting on cedar panel "Corrobborree at Newcastle" (Nobby's can be seen in the background), probably also by Joseph Lycett, and which is similar to this engraving, is at Dixson Galleries DG 228
Digital order no:a1272007

Printed beneath image "W. Preston. Sculp."