• Title
  P. G. King [Philip Gidley King] at Valparaiso, 1835 / by Johann Moritz Rugendas
• Creator
  Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1802-1858
• Call number
  SV/231
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1835
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  934427
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 33.8 x 22.8 cm - pencil
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Philip Gidley King (1817-1904), a pastoralist, was born in October 1817 at Parramatta, Sydney, the eldest son of Captain Phillip Parker King and his wife Harriet, nee Lethbridge. Between 1826 and 1830 he sailed with his father on the ship Adventure to survey the southern coast of South America. In December 1831 King joined the H.M.S. Beagle as a midshipman on a voyage to survey the South American coast. During this voyage he developed a lifelong friendship with Charles Darwin. In January 1836 he returned to Sydney, entering the service of the Australian Agricultural Company in 1842. He died on 5 August 1904 in Sydney.
  
  Bavarian artist, Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858) is well known for works depicting landscapes and ethnographic subjects in South America. He first travelled to Brazil between 1821 and 1823. From 1831 to 1834 he lived in Mexico, settling in Chile from 1834 to 1845, when he also painted in Argentina and Peru.
  
  References:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/ (accessed 3 May 2012)
  Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Library Edition. http://www.britannica.com.au/ (accessed 15 May 2012)
• Collection history
  By descent through the King family.
• Scope and Content
  A head and torso pencil portrait of Philip Gidley King shown seated.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from inscription verso
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1069353
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed at lower left in pencil 'JMRugendas [monogram extending into full signature] / Valparaiso 1839'.
  Inscriptions verso in pencil 'P. G. King / at Valparaiso 1835 / belongs to P. G. King' and 'G. G. King / at Valparaiso 1835 / belongs to P. G. King'.
• Date note
  
  Dated from inscription verso. Date of 1839 at lower left of image appears to have been over-written and probably mis-read.
  Between 1834 and 1835 the ship H.M.S. Beagle, with King on board, visited Valparaiso in Chile a number of times. In 1836 Philip Gidley King returned to Sydney settling in New South Wales.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Subject
  Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--Portraits.
  King, Philip Gidley, 1817-1904--Portraits.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE341211

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