• Title
  A Description of a wonderful large wild man, or monstrous giant, brought from Botany-Bay
• Call number
  SV/44
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1789
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Ephemera
• Reference code
  98388
• Physical Description
  Ephemera - 1 printed broadside, with two wood-cuts and letterpress - 30.9 x 21 cm
  
• General note
  
  The broadside has two woodcuts. The left-hand image is of three buildings by water, and is probably supposed to represent Botany Bay. The right hand image is of a monster guarded by two men with guns. It matches closely the description of the wild man given in the letterpress of the broadside, and was probably cut especially for the broadside.
  There is no evidence that a ship Rover visited Australia in 1789
  The broadside was auctioned by Sotheby's on 25 June 1992 in the Longueville Collection, lot 113. In 1995 it was offered by Tim McCormick as no.14 of his Australiana Rare and Curious catalogue.
  Another version of the broadside is held by the Dixson Library, Drawer Item 140. It only has one woodcut, of a woman? titled Hoko, but the text is largely the same. However this text says the Rover arrived in Plymouth on 24 April 1790.
  Colour transparency digitised 1998
  Digital order no:a1528342
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  A long narrative about the capture of the giant, by the crew of the Ship Rover, under Captain Lee, is printed beneath the two woodcuts. The text says the Rover landed at Plymouth, 29 November 1789.
• Topic
  broadsheets
  colonial art
  fictitious beings
  giants
  human curiosities
  mythical objects
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998)
  Lines in the sand - Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre

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