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| Historical Images
Reproduced with permission
from the pictorial collections of the National
Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
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Native
of New South Wales from Wellington Valley. The man's body shown the
cicatrices of initiation and he holds a spear thrower. In a companion
image, held by the National Library, Earle painted this man's back.
The back image also shows pronounced cicatrices and, more clearly, the apparel
made of strips of possum skin. A curved weapon is tucked into the waist
band and the hair is decorated with feathers and tied back with a thong.
The front image is incorporated into the landscape of Wellington Valley
with the commandant's house.
Augustus Earle (1793-1838), watercolour c.1826-7. Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK12/24, National Library of Australia. |
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Native of New South Wales (c1826) Augustus Earle (1793-1838), watercolour c1826. Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK12/32, National Library of Australia. |
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Wellington
Valley, New South Wales, looking East, from Government House,
showing part of the Commandant's house and a Wiradjuri warrior in the foreground
and the huts of the penal settlement, established in 1823, in the middle
distance.
Augustus Earle (1793-1838), watercolour, c.1826-7, 20 x 37.5 cm. Inscription: '24. Wellington Valley, New South Wales, looking East, from Government House'. Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK12/24, National Library of Australia.
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View of a Hassall
property, possibly that of James or Jonathan Hassall, near Molong, NSW.
Unsigned and undated watercolour attributed to Augustus Earle, c.1826-7, 17.7 x 51.7 cm. Inscription: 'Moalong Plains near Wellington Valley. The residence of Mr Hunt, the accomplice of Thomas. H.' Mitchell Library, Sydney. |
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King's
Table Land, Blue Mountains, New South Wales: the appearance of the new road.
Augustus Earle (1793-1838), watercolour ; 21.3 x 36.2 cm. Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK12/26. |
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A distant
view of the Blue Mountains and Lapston [i.e. Lapstone] Hill, New South Wales
taken from the Emu Plains Road
[1826?] |
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A government jail gang, Sydney, N.S. Wales Augustus Earle (1793-1838) .. |
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Female
penitentiary or factory, Parramatta
[1826?] |
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View
of the Molong Mine, N.S.W.
[1847?] |
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Major
Mitchell sketching the entrance of the caves in Wellington Valley, New South
Wales
1843. |
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View of a property
of Thomas Hassall, near Molong, NSW.
Unsigned and undated watercolour attributed to Augustus Earle, c.1826-7, 29.3 x 53.3 cm. Inscription: 'Moalong Plains near Wellington Valley. The residence of Mr Hunt, the accomplice of Thomas. H.' Mitchell Library, Sydney. |
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View of Bathurst,
NSW
Unsigned and undated watercolour attributed to Augustus Earle, c.1826-7, 24.2 x 75.5 cm. Inscription: 'Bathurst Plains and Settlement New South Wales'. Mitchell Library, Sydney. |
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An
Aboriginal family camping outside a European
settler's farmhouse, possibly in the Wellington area of NSW. In the company
of two native dogs and wrapped in a blanket, the Aboriginal woman has a
child at the breast while a toddler holds a cup and seems to be asking for
food.Sitting slightly apart, the Aboriginal man, dressed in European clothes,
smokes with his back to the viewer. On the verandah of the European house,
a man wearing a top hat surveys the scene with arms folded. His wife stands
a little further back, but both seem distanced and disapproving of the native
camp. Hackforth-Jones notes a resemblance between the woman (left) and one
of the wives of Bungaree portrayed elsewhere by Earle.
Water colour by Augustus Earle, c.1826-7,17.5 x 25.7 cm. Inscription: '45. A Native Family of New South Wales sitting down on an English Settler's Farm'. Rex Nan Kivell Coolection NK12/45, National Library of Australia. |
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Wellington Caves. This is one of three paintings which Augustus Earle executed, probably in 1826, of a torch light visit to the large cave, called 'Mosman's Cave', in Wellington Valley. |
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Earle,
Augustus, 1793-1838: Mosman's Cave, Wellington Valley, New South Wales,
No. 1 [picture], 1 watercolour ; 21 x 32.5 cm.
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Engraving of
an Aboriginal burial site from the published journal of Surveyor-General
John Oxley during his "Expedition to ascertain the Course of the Lachlan
River.' He noted, on 29 July 1817: "Almost directly under the hill near
our halting place we saw a tumulus, which was apparently of recent construction.
. . It would seem that some person of consideration among the natives had
been buried in it, from the exterior marks of form which had certainly been
observed in the construction of the tomb and the surrounding seats. . .
To the west and north were two cypress tress, distant between 50 and 60
feet. The sides towards the tomb were barked, and curious characters deeply
cut upon them, in a manner which, considering the tool they possess, must
have been a work of great labour and time." David Bell and Zo‘ Wakelin-King,
"Living Monuments. Aboriginal carved trees of New South Wales", Australian
Natural History 21, 7 (1984-5): 302-5, note that when the site of Oxley's
observations was rediscovered in 1913, local Aborigines recalled that the
grave was that of an important man of the Calare tribe who drowned when
crossing the flooded rived by canoe. By 1913 almost all of the site had
disappeared though some fragements were taken to the Australian Museum and
a cairn erected to commemorate the place.
Hilary M. Carey and David Andrew Roberts (eds.) The Wellington Valley Project: Papers Relating to the Church Missionary Society Mission to Wellington Valley, New South Wales 1830 - 42. A Critical Electronic Edition. 2002. (C) 2002 |
