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Title

(A) Portrait of man, Alligator River, Bunitj NT, aged 27 years (B) Portrait of a girl, Bunitj or Woolna NT, aged 15 years (C) Portrait of a man, 'Young Davy' Alligator R. Jan, aged 27 years (D) Portrait of a man, 'Charley' Alligator River, aged 47 years

1889

Artist

Paul Foelsche

Germany, Australia

30 Mar 1831 – 31 Jan 1914

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  • Details

    Date
    1889
    Media category
    Photograph
    Materials used
    4 gelatin silver photographs
    Dimensions
    4 photographs; each 15.2 x 10.2 cm image/sheet; 21.8 x 29.0 cm original card
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Purchased 1986
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    16.1986.1.a-d
    Copyright
    Unable to display image due to cultural restrictions
    Artist information
    Paul Foelsche

    Works in the collection

    22

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  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 3 exhibitions

  • Bibliography

    Referenced in 2 publications

    • Judy Annear, The photograph and Australia, Sydney, Jun 2015, 79 (colour illus.).

    • Carol Cooper and Alana Harris., Portraits of Oceania, Dignity or degradation: Aboriginal portraits from nineteenth century Australia', Sydney, 1997, 19 (illus.). cat.no. 41, part 1a; cat.no. 42, part 1b

Other works by Paul Foelsche

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