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RAHS/HHA Evening Lecture – Finding Islands of my Own: Phillip Parker King
February 27 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
$25 – $35The Royal Australian Historical Society in conjunction with Historic Houses Association of Australia (HHA) present: Finding Islands of my Own: Phillip Parker King, the first internationally renowned Australian
![Mermaid at anchorage in Endeavour River, 1819, Phillip Parker King. Mermaid at anchorage in Endeavour River, 1819, Phillip Parker King. Watercolour from album of drawings and engravings. [Image courtesy State Library of NSW, PXC 767, f. 86]](https://www.rahs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/607x437xMermaid-at-anchorage-in-Endeavour-River-1819.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Yo8Hf3rUuk.jpg)
Mermaid at anchorage in Endeavour River, 1819, Phillip Parker King. Watercolour from album of drawings and engravings. [Image courtesy State Library of NSW, PXC 767, f. 86]
About the speaker: Paul Brunton OAM, FAHA is Emeritus Curator, State Library of New South Wales. He worked with the Mitchell Library’s Australiana collections for 40 years and was Curator of Manuscripts from 1986 to 2001 and Senior Curator from 2002–12. He was curator of the exhibition Matthew Flinders: The Ultimate Voyage which opened at the State Library in 2001, and travelled nationally during 2002–03. His annotated edition of Flinders’ letters, Matthew Flinders: Personal letters from an Extraordinary Life was published in 2002.
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