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Print
422395
  • Title
    New South Wales natives, 1803 / Geo Riley (Publisher)
  • Call number
    PXE 77
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    18 August 1803
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    422395
  • Physical Description
    Prints - 6 hand coloured mezzotints - Plates 27 x 22 cm.; 3 on sheets 44 x 30 cm. & 3 trimmed to plate marks
  • Scope and Content
    1. Bidgee Bidgee. A Native of New South Wales. A well known character at Sydney, speaks very good English and mimicks the names of every Officer and person in the Colony
    2. Calee, A Native of New South Wales. Distinguished on account of her familiar manners by the name of Mary. She is of a mild and docile disposition
    3. Kilpriera. A Native of New South Wales, the sister of Calee but of a very different disposition, being extremely Savage and untameable
    4. Same as 3
    5. Mackabarang, A Native of New South Wales. A frequent Visitor in the Colony, known by the name of Broken Bay Jack
    6. Same as 5
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: Creator died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Contents list held with collection
    Digital order no:Album ID : 823692
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    "Pub'd Aug. 18, 1803 by Geo. Riley, 41 London Road, St. George's Fields" -- printed at lower plate edge
    "Monsr Le Petit delin. / From the original in the possession of Ja[?] thompson Esq. late principal acting Surgeon to the Colony / E. Piper sculp." -- printed beneath image
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  • Exhibited in

    Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (5 June - 13 August, 2006). Applies to: f.6
    A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (September 1997 - January 1998). Applies to: f.6

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