Captain James Wallis album

A rare 19th Century previously unrecorded album containing landscapes, natural history sketches and named portraits of the aboriginal people of the Newcastle region. The majority of watercolours are by the convict artist Joseph Lycett, but the portraits are by James Wallis.
View of the Awabakal people, circa 1818

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A rare 19th Century previously unrecorded album containing landscapes, natural history sketches and named portraits of the aboriginal people of the Newcastle region.
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A rare 19th Century previously unrecorded album containing landscapes, natural history sketches and named portraits of the aboriginal people of the Newcastle region. The majority of watercolours are by the convict artist Joseph Lycett, but the portraits are by James Wallis.
View of the Awabakal people, circa 1818