Portrait of Pemulwuy, in a canoe
Date
1804
Sitter
Pemulwuy (1750 - 1802, Eora) , Political leader
Creator
Samuel John Neele (1753 - 1824, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
RCN42189
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 272mm
width (print): 272mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of Pemulwuy, here referred to as ‘Pimbloy’, an Australian chief of the Bidjigal clan. He is shown in profile in a traditional bark canoe.
Inscribed above: ‘Page 170’. Inscribed below: ‘PIMBLOY: NATIVE OF NEW HOLLAND IN A CANOE OF THAT COUNTRY. This plate is respectfully Dedicated To His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, by His obedt. Humble Servt. Jas. Grant, Lt. R.N. S.I.Neele sc. 352 Strand. Published Jany. 10 1804 by T. Egerton, Whitehall.’
Plate 4 from the The narrative of a discovery…performed in his Majesty’s vessel the Lady Nelson…to New South Wales, by James Grant (London, for T. Egerton, 1803). This book was the product of Grant’s voyages as lieutenant of the Lady Nelson. The crew of the Lady Nelson made the first passage through the Bass Strait under the instruction to colonise the surrounding land.
The accompanying text states: ‘With this Work will be found a Plate representing a canoe of New Holland. The native seated in it, holding up a paddle, is a chief, a sort of troublesome fellow, named Pimbloy . The resemblance is though to be striking by those who have seen him.’
James Grant (1772-1833) British Royal Navy officer and navigator was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Pemulwuy (c.1750-1802), a member and chief of the Bidjigal, or Bediagal, clan from the Botany Bay area of Sydney. He led resistance forces in a campaign against the colonial settlement of Australia and in 1802 was shot and killed by a British settler.
Inscribed above: ‘Page 170’. Inscribed below: ‘PIMBLOY: NATIVE OF NEW HOLLAND IN A CANOE OF THAT COUNTRY. This plate is respectfully Dedicated To His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, by His obedt. Humble Servt. Jas. Grant, Lt. R.N. S.I.Neele sc. 352 Strand. Published Jany. 10 1804 by T. Egerton, Whitehall.’
Plate 4 from the The narrative of a discovery…performed in his Majesty’s vessel the Lady Nelson…to New South Wales, by James Grant (London, for T. Egerton, 1803). This book was the product of Grant’s voyages as lieutenant of the Lady Nelson. The crew of the Lady Nelson made the first passage through the Bass Strait under the instruction to colonise the surrounding land.
The accompanying text states: ‘With this Work will be found a Plate representing a canoe of New Holland. The native seated in it, holding up a paddle, is a chief, a sort of troublesome fellow, named Pimbloy . The resemblance is though to be striking by those who have seen him.’
James Grant (1772-1833) British Royal Navy officer and navigator was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Pemulwuy (c.1750-1802), a member and chief of the Bidjigal, or Bediagal, clan from the Botany Bay area of Sydney. He led resistance forces in a campaign against the colonial settlement of Australia and in 1802 was shot and killed by a British settler.
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