Description
This is a colour print of a half-figure portrait drawn by the French artist Nicolas-Martin Petit somewhere near Port Jackson (Sydney), between 20 June and 17 November 1802. It shows a man named as Y-erran-gou-la-ga. There is painting on his chest and face and he is wearing a piece of reed or bone through a hole in the cartilage of his nose. The print, measuring 32.0 cm x 24.0 cm, was published in France in 1807 as Plate no XIX (14) in 'Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes (Atlas)', or 'Voyage of discovery to the Austral Lands (Atlas)', in which Y-erran-gou-la-ga was also identified as 'Mousqueda' or 'Mousquita'.
Acknowledgements
| Copyright | Reproduced courtesy of National Library of Australia |
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| Creator | Nicolas-Martin Petit, artist, 1802 Barthelemy Roger, artist, 1807 J Milbert, collaborator, 1807 de l'Imprimerie de Langlois, Paris, publisher, 1807 |
| Identifiers | National Library of Australia number nla.pic-an7573663
TLF resource R4037 |
| Source | National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au |
