Two of the Natives of New Holland, Advancing to Combat

Two of the Natives of New Holland, Advancing to Combat is a drawing by Sydney Parkinson, drawn in 1770 and published posthumously as an etching by Thomas Chambers in the 1773 book A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas.

[1][2] It is the earliest known portrayal of an Australian Aboriginal person by a European,[citation needed] and a typical example of a painting in the noble savage ideal, showing proud warriors advancing in defence of their land.

[3] The stance of the warriors is said to be based upon the Borghese Gladiator.

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Etching of Two of the Natives , as published in 1773.