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"A Norfolk Island Hand Adges"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 14.3 x 27.3 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 79

 

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Stone tool on a plain background, framed by a pencil border and annotated in brown ink, and with a pencil "X" at upper left. The tool is coloured in shades of grey and has a predominantly mottled appearance, with the exception of one edge to the left which which has apparently been worked, and is depicted in a more even wash overlaid with grey lines.

 

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