John Heaviside Clark | Field Sports of The Native Inhabitants of NSW | SOLD
Attributed to watercolour drawings by the first professional artists to visit Australia, John Lewin. Printed by M Dubourg after John Heaveside Clark (It is now considered that Clark reporduced Lewin’s works) Published by Edward Orme.
each work is in good original condition and housed in a lined mount with a timber frame.
Size: 13 x 20 cm or 20 x 13 cm
The Paper is watermarked 1819.
This set of 10 aquatints with hand colouring were first printed in 1813. They were dedicated to Rear Admiral Bligh (Late Captain General and governor In Chief in and over his majesty’s colony of New South Wales and its dependencies) Printed over 200 years ago, this set of 10 aquatints was the first pictorial publication that dealt with the lives and culture of native Australians.
Titles are:
Fishing 1
Fishing 2
Warriors of NSW
Repose (Gunya- living arrangements)
Climbing Trees (Hunting Possum)
Hunting The Kangaroo
The Dance (Corroboree)
Throwing The Spear (Hunting birds)
Trial (Justice System)
Smoking out The O’Possum (Hunting)
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