• Title
  [Portrait of] Simon, an Australian Aborigine of the Yarra Yarra tribe which opposed the landing of Batman, 1835, photographed 189-? / Gould, lithographer; Perry, photographer
• Creator
  Perry
• Call number
  DL Pe 12
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  189-
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  901356
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : DL Pe 12
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading RoomDigitised
• Physical Description
  1 photomechanical print - printed area, excluding title, 24.4. x 18.5 cm, sheet 33.8 x 26.2 cm - photolithograph with tinted ground
  
• Scope and Content
  Subject is seated, holding spear and club
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Printed area not an exact rectangle
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  There is a J. Perry listed among photographers in Melbourne directory for 1893, and a G.W. Perry 1894-1897. Could not see in Sydney directories of the 1880s
• Date note
  
  Dating as 189-? based on activity in photolithography, as shown by directories. It could be earlier
• Conservation note
  
  Foxed, stained and torn, specially the lower half
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Gould
  
• Name
  Simon
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  clubs (weapons)
  spears
  
• Place
  Victoria
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8782817

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