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Cook’s Landing (after Macleod), Miniatures series
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ROBERT HAGUE
Cook’s Landing (after Macleod), Miniatures series, 2020
detail from lithograph, porcelain 8cm dish, gold, edition of 50
8 x 8 x 1 cm
$220
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Ned Kelly's helmeted figure replaces the Aboriginal warriors in this reworking of this iconic 19th-century etching. Captain Cook's boat-people arriving at Kurnell in 1770 are met with resistance by the divisive bushranger from the 1880s. Kelly, who is often associated with xenophobia, is caught repelling the English arrival, in what amounts to a diabolical contradiction. These two powerful figures of Australian colonial history are forever in conflict over the rich prize of terra nullius (nobody's land).