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Product name:
Family of New South Wales, by William Blake, Engraving
Description:
William Blake, 1757 to 1827, after Philip Gidley King
London
1793
Engraving
Sheet 10 x 8 1/2 inches (25.4 x 21.6 cm), frame 19 x 15 inches (48.3 x 38.1 cm)
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, Hawaii
An Aboriginal family stands in an open landscape, the man at the left carrying a multi pronged fishing spear and a woomera, a shield held at his side. Behind him the woman carries the younger child on her shoulders with a dilly bag hanging at her back, and holds a fishing line and a caught fish in her hands. A boy walks beside them with spears over his shoulder and a fire stick in his hand, and the group is worked in fine engraved line with the heads modeled in close cross hatching.
The plate is lettered A FAMILY OF NEW SOUTH WALES beneath the image, with From a Sketch by Governor King at the lower left and Blake Sculpt at the lower right, above the imprint of J. Stockdale of Piccadilly. It was engraved for John Hunter's An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, published in London in 1793. Impressions are held in the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Museum of Australia, and the National Library of Australia.
William Blake was born in London in 1757 and died there in 1827. He was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire and worked in commercial engraving throughout his career alongside his own poetry and illuminated books. This plate belongs to that commercial work and dates from the years immediately before Songs of Innocence and of Experience appeared in 1794. Philip Gidley King, who supplied the sketch, was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Norfolk Island in 1790 and later Governor of New South Wales, and his original drawing is now in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
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That's on me — the Blake description had citation links baked into it from the sourcing. They should never have been in paste-ready copy. Clean version, plain text only:
Product name:
Family of New South Wales, by William Blake, Engraving
Description:
William Blake, 1757 to 1827, after Philip Gidley King
London
1793
Engraving
Sheet 10 x 8 1/2 inches (25.4 x 21.6 cm), frame 19 x 15 inches (48.3 x 38.1 cm)
Provenance: John Dominis Holt, Honolulu, Hawaii
An Aboriginal family stands in an open landscape, the man at the left carrying a multi pronged fishing spear and a woomera, a shield held at his side. Behind him the woman carries the younger child on her shoulders with a dilly bag hanging at her back, and holds a fishing line and a caught fish in her hands. A boy walks beside them with spears over his shoulder and a fire stick in his hand, and the group is worked in fine engraved line with the heads modeled in close cross hatching.
The plate is lettered A FAMILY OF NEW SOUTH WALES beneath the image, with From a Sketch by Governor King at the lower left and Blake Sculpt at the lower right, above the imprint of J. Stockdale of Piccadilly. It was engraved for John Hunter's An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, published in London in 1793. Impressions are held in the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Museum of Australia, and the National Library of Australia.
William Blake was born in London in 1757 and died there in 1827. He was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire and worked in commercial engraving throughout his career alongside his own poetry and illuminated books. This plate belongs to that commercial work and dates from the years immediately before Songs of Innocence and of Experience appeared in 1794. Philip Gidley King, who supplied the sketch, was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Norfolk Island in 1790 and later Governor of New South Wales, and his original drawing is now in the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
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