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Image number: RS.10629
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‘Implements of New South Wales’
Date
1790
Creator
Object type
Library reference
22426
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 292mm
width (print): 225mm
width (print): 225mm
Subject
Description
Studies of native Australian tools. Figures A-S including war, hunting and fishing spears; a stone hatchet; a boomerang [described as ‘a kind of a blunt sword’]; a club and a bark basket. With an inset figure illustrating the use of the woomera (spear thrower).
Plate 63 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The plate is inscribed: “Implements of New South Wales. London. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.Debrett.” There is an inset scale of 1 ½ inches. to 1 foot.
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
Plate 63 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales...by John White (J.Debrett, London, 1790).
The plate is inscribed: “Implements of New South Wales. London. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by I.Debrett.” There is an inset scale of 1 ½ inches. to 1 foot.
“The Public may rely, with the most perfect confidence, on the care and accuracy with which the Drawings have been copied from nature, by Miss Stone, Mr.Catton, Mr.Nodder, and other artists; and the Editor flatters himself the Engravings are all executed with equal correctness, by, or under the immediate inspection of Mr.Milton. The Birds, &c. from which the drawings were taken are deposited in the Leverian Museum.”
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