Description
Scarce early c.19th Italian engraving of portraits of three aborigines based on the original engravings by Nicholas Petit issued as three separate portraits in the accounts of Nicholas Baudin’s voyage of exploration and discovery in the ships; Geographe and Causarina in 1802-3. From left, the portraits are of ;
Left: Port Jackson warrior Cour-rou-bari-gal of the Boregegal (Bradleys Head Clan)
Centre: Tasmanian woman Arra-maïda of Bruny Island
Right: Grou- Agara, man of Van Diemen’s Land.
From Giulio Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno o storia del governo, della milizia, della religione, delle arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli antichi e moderni provata coi monumenti dell’ antichita e rappresentata cogli analoghi disegni., vol. VIII (Asia)
