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Bugger-Bugger (A Native of New Holland), and a True Representation of Our Sydney Blacks

Pencil and watercolour on paper laid down on stretched linen, watermark 'Turkey Mill/Whatman', unframed, signed, inscribed and dated 'Sketched by Read the/Elder 1824 - taken from Life/True measurement 5-1/Bugger Bugger (a Native of New/Holond) and a true Representation of our Sydney Blacks./There is just the same disparity in point of bulk and hight/in these...drawings both being copied by partil measurement' (sic), 38.2 x 26.9 cm
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The New Zealand Chief King Totoro

Pencil and watercolour on paper laid down on stretched line, unframed, signed, inscribed and dated '[sketche]d by Read the Elder Taken from the Life 1824/ the New Zealand Chief King Tetoro' and further indistinctly inscribed, 38.2 x 26.9 cm
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Esther Johnston

Oil on ivory, signed, 6.5 x 5 cm
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