Voyage à Bathurst (nouv. hollande). Aurang Jacke chef de Spring-Woode, dans les montagnes Bleus, avec 2 femmes. Betzy-Natiwoé. Merey.; and Voyage à Bathurst (nouv. hollande) Deux Sauvages rencontrés dans les Bois des Montagnes Bleues près de Régent-Ville

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J.Alphonse Pellion (fl.1817-1820)
Voyage à Bathurst (nouv. hollande). Aurang Jacke chef de Spring-Woode, dans les montagnes Bleus, avec 2 femmes. Betzy-Natiwoé. Merey.; and Voyage à Bathurst (nouv. hollande) Deux Sauvages rencontrés dans les Bois des Montagnes Bleues près de Régent-Ville
both inscribed as titles
pencil and grey wash on paper, watermarks Montgolfier and Annonay
9 1/8 x 12in. (23.2 x 30.4cm.)
9¼ x 11 7/8in. (23.5 x 30.2cm.)
and Sebastien Leroy's pencil and brown wash engraver's drawing after Pellion's two drawings for plate 99 in the Atlas Historique and three proof engravings for the plate (6)

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Atlas Historique, pl.99.

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Lot Essay

Pellion's drawings depict Aurang-Jack, head of the tribe of aborigines at Spring-Wood, with his two wives Betzy-Natiwoe and Merey (Spring Wood, Blue Mountains, 30 November 1819) and two aborigines drawn while staying at Sir John Jamison's property at Regentville (near Penrith, New South Wales, December 1819).

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