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A Portrait Oxley
Portrait by the renowned colonial artist John Lewin of a ‘Native Chief at Bathurst’, NSW appears in John Oxley’s Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Government in the years 1817-18 London [1820]. The portrait is closely related to an earlier work by Lewin of Yango Mungo Y’eyango (Bathurst Plains), one of the Wiradjuri people met by Oxley and Lewin on the first official crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1815.
See: R.A.J. Neville A Rage For Curiosity (1997)
also The Dictionary of Australian artists : Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870/ edited by Joan Kerr (1992
