Toomba [picture] / W. Nicholas
- Bib ID:
- 966474
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Nicholas, William, 1807-1854
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1942 [i.e. 1842]
- 1 print : lithograph ; 25.4 x 17.5 cm.
- Summary:
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"This very rare portrait of Toomba is among the finest and most sensitive images of Aborigines issued during this period. Unlike his contemporaries, Nicholas has attempted to capture a true image"--Auctioneer's catalogue.
- Biography/History:
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William Nicholas arrived in Sydney in 1836 and established himself as a portrait artist working in watercolour and lithography. In Nov. 1838 Edward Barlow's Repository of Arts announced that "it would publish a full length portrait of Mary, a native black of Sydney ... the whole drawn upon Zink by Mr. W. Nicholas ... who claims the sole right to use the art of Zincography in N.S.W. and Van Diemen's Land". Nicholas attracted patronage from the colony's social and professional elite. He exhibited in the first exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Australia held in 1847 and received considerable praise "his works are remarkable for correctness in drawing and with occasional exceptions, freedom in action and position, for the cleanness of tone and high finish"(Catalogue of the Society) -- Auctioneer's catalogue.
- Notes:
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- Inscriptions:'Toomba'--printed below image; 'W Nicholas 1942'--printed lower right.
- Condition: good.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136578021
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Engraving
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1854
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1842
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