Category:Paintings by William Bradley

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English: William Bradley (Royal Navy officer) (1758–13 March 1833) was a British naval officer and cartographer who was one of the officers who participated in the First Fleet to Australia. During this expedition, Bradley undertook extensive surveys and became one of the first of the settlers to establish relations with the aborigines, with whom he struck up a dialogue and whose customs and nature he studied extensively. He later however fell out with his aboriginal contacts and instead undertook a mission to gather food which ended with an eleven-month stay on Norfolk Island after a shipwreck. He was a keen note-taker and sketcher.

Paintings are from the State Library of New South Wales where they are referred to as "watercolour drawings."

These watercolours are bound or hinged into William Bradley's journal 'A Voyage to New South Wales', 1786-1792. They were probably painted some years after the events depicted as the entire journal seems to be a fair copy made ca. 1802.

Media in category "Paintings by William Bradley"

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