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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  16 Nov 2021 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  31
• Lot Description:
  Joseph Swabey Tetley
  (circa 1778-1822)
  Album of 12 Drawings of Australian Aborigines (circa 1805)
  watercolour with brush and ink on Buttanshaw wove paper; two sheets watermarked with date '1804'
  21.8 x 17 cm (each) (12)
  inscribed 'Natives of Australia / by Capt. Tetley taken on the spot / Wm. R.' (inscription by the original owner of this book, William Rashleigh); 21.8 x 17 cm (each) (12) 1) A Child Offering Fish to Its Mother; 2) Man with a Club; 3) Woman Carrying a Basket; 4) Man with a Club and Shield; 5) Man Fishing with a Five-Pronged Fishing Spear; 6) Man with a Shield, Throwing Stick and Spear, in the Action of Throwing; 7) Man with Spears and Shield; 8) Man Holding Spears with a Throwing Stick in His Belt; 9) Man with a Conical Head-Dress Holding Some Sort of Club; 10) Woman in a Canoe Fishing with a Line; 11) Man Offering a Fish; 12) Woman with a Baby Slung on Her Back
• Provenance:
  (Possibly) Philip Rashleigh III (1729-1811), England; William Rashleigh (1777-1855), England; (Possibly) Rashleigh Family auction, of Menabilly, nr. Fowey, Cornwall, [circa 1940s]; Private Collection, Ireland; James Stevens Cox, Guernsey, acquired from the above; Private Collection, by descent from the above; "Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper", Forum Auctions, London, 9 June 2020, lot 157, illustrated; Private Collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above
• References:
  James Stevens Cox (ed.), "Australian Aborigines Drawn from Life by Captain Tetley c. 1805", The Toucan Press, St Peter Port, Guernsey, 1977, illustrated
• Estimate:
  A$350,000 - 450,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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