Abstract dark blue pattern with curved and geometric lines and shapes, resembling stylised waves or leaves, on a matching dark blue background.

‘One of the NSW Aborigines befriended by Governor Macquarie’

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This unsigned portrait is entitled ‘One of the NSW Aborigines befriended by Governor Macquarie’ and was for many years in the possession of Mrs Macquarie. Like too many paintings of Aboriginal people, this individual is unnamed (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – ML 696)
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