First Fleet artwork collection

Aboriginal man equipped with a shield, three spears and a throwing stick, his body marked with cicatrices and his hair decorated with bone and tooth hanging ornaments. He is depicted in left profile as if walking along a rocky ledge overlooking the sea, which is represented by a pale blue gradated wash overlaid with grey horizontal lines. There are two headlands in the middle-distance, and a relatively high horizon behind them. The sky is composed of a gradated wash of blue, pale yellow and pink. In the foreground to the right there is a branch of a tree with grey green foliage drawn with vertical brush marks. The drawing is framed by a double ink-line border, and annotated below the border in brown ink.