• Title
  Adm.l W. Bligh / drawn by H.A. Barker, 1805
• Creator
  Henry Aston Barker, 1774-1856
• Call number
  MIN 351
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1805
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  18730
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil, mounted onto straw board -- backing paper fixed to reverse of board - 14 x 10.7 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Henry Barker was Bligh's son-in-law.
  The portrait was reproduced in Geoffrey Callender "The Portraiture of Bligh", Mariner's Mirror, vol. XXII, no. 2, April 1936 opp p.174: General Reference Library DS 656.506/7. It then belonged to Captain H. Littlehales Barker, Bligh's great-great-grandson.
  Also reproduced in The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh R.N., F.R.S. / George Mackaness. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1951, opp. p. 512 : Mitchell Library REF 1/A923.59/B648.1/1C1.
  Digital order no:a1528244
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Drawn the 20th. November 1805 -- underneath image
  Portrait of Adm.l W. Bligh drawn by H.A. Barker / [...?] [...?] Barker / drawn 20 Nov.r 1805 Admiral W. Bligh R.N. of the "Bounty" -- on reverse of drawing
• Name
  Bligh, William, 1754-1817
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Just Received case - State Library of New South Wales
  Dare to know : the art and science of Pacific voyages - State Library of New South Wales (June - November 1998)
  Politics & Power: Bligh's Sydney Rebellion 1808 - State Library of New South Wales (January - April 2008)

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