[A corroboree of the Australian aborigines, ca.1867] / pencil drawing by Samuel Calvert

V/140

fonds

ca.1867

Graphic Materials, Drawings

457650

Drawings - approx. 32.5 x 45 cm inside frame lines; sheet 42 x 53.5 cm. - vertical crease at centre and various small tears reinforced with rice paper lining - 1 pencil drawing

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955

Signed "Samuel Calvert" in pencil outside frame line at lower right
Untitled, undated. Titled and dated from Calvert's wood engraving of this scene published in the Illustrated Melbourne post, July 27, 1867.
A colour wood engraving drawn and engraved by Calvert, closely resembling this sketch, was published in the Illustrated Melbourne post, July 27, 1867. In the plate, the central figure faces to the right and holds a boomerang in his right hand, but the compositions are otherwise similar.
Formerly titled by Library: "Aborigines dancing round campfire"

Natives -- on reverse in pencil