The small outline of a national picture (The conciliation).
Primary Artist
Benjamin Duterrau (1767–1851)
Title
The small outline of a national picture (The conciliation).
Date made
1835
Place made
Nipaluna / Hobart, Tasmania, Australia View on map Close map
Category
Print type
intaglio
Technique
etching and stippling, printed in black ink, from one copper plate
Matrix size
22.6 x 28.0 cm (plate-mark)
Support
wove paper
Support size
30.8 x 33.9 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Subject description
Compositional draft for 'The Conciliation', 1840, depicting George Augustus Robinson negotiating with a group of Tasmanian Aborigines to surrender their land to white settlers.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
71684
Accession number
87.1146
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 1, 1987/88 (1987-07-14)
Provenance
Purchased by the Australian National gallery, from Schedding Berry Fine Art, Sydney, 1987.
Credit line
Purchased 1987
Subject categories
Australia, Art period: Colonial, Tasmania | Aboriginal Australians: Portrait, group
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Duterrau, Benjamin. | (1767–1851) Australian | English | Male | artist
Last Updated
07 Jan 2013