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843835
  • Title
    Sketches of aborigines / William Romaine Govett
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXB 95
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    No date
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    843835
  • Physical Description
    3 photographs - 20.3 x 25.4 cm (measurement of originals) - black & white
  • Scope and Content
    f. 1. Cambo [and] Natives of the Bogan tribe
    f. 2. Talambe
    f. 3. Eryguinea - King of the Nattai Tribe. N. S. Wales
  • Copying Conditions
    Approval for reproduction required
  • Original held by
    Originals in the possession of Mrs. B. Hamilton, 1974
  • Description source

    Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • General note

    One of the drawings is titled 'Eryguinea - King of the Nattai Tribe N.S. Wales' below sketch. The others are titled from the following cited published work. The four sketches appear to have been copied from lithographs in T. L. Mitchell's 'Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia'. London, T. & W. Boone, 1839. vol. 1, plates 1, 19 and 21; and vol. 2, plate 39.

    Keyword subjects:
    Eryguinea
    Talambi
  • Attributions / conjectures

    One of the original drawings is initialled 'WRG' at lower right, attributed to Govett after comparison with initials on drawings in his 'Notes and sketches ...' (A 330)
  • Date note

    None are dated
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