[Drawings of Aboriginal Australians, ca 1813-1819] / attributed to R. Browne]
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    [Drawings of Aboriginal Australians, ca 1813-1819] / attributed to R. Browne]

    Call numbers

    DGA 3

    Record identifier

    16AJqxDn

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    [Drawings of Aboriginal Australians, ca 1813-1819] / attributed to R. Browne]

    Full title

    [Drawings of Aboriginal Australians, ca 1813-1819] / attributed to R. Browne]

    Author / Creator

    Browne, Richard, 1776-1824

    Date

    [ca 1813-1819]

    Call Numbers

    DGA 3

    Record Identifier

    16AJqxDn

    Formats

    Pictures and Watercolours

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    Drawings - 32.5 x 25.5 cm (or smaller) - 5 watercolours
    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955

    Please acknowledge: : Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales

    Access Conditions

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    Issue Copy

    Digitised

    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Aboriginal peoples (Australians) canoes fires fish hunting weapons fishing (pastime) portraits Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales. Aboriginal Australians in art. Adult Males Adult Females Infants--Pictorial works. Wambela Burgon Ginatoo Mimora

    More information

    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    1. Natives fishing in a bark canoe. Titled beneath image. Inscribed lower left `New South Wales 1819'; at lower right `R. Browne Delt 27 Philip Street Sydney. On the reverse is inscribed, in different (and probably later) hands, `I. Hope / Southampton' and `Mr Slade'
    2. Mimora. On the reverse is inscribed, in different (and probably later) hand...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    [Drawings of Aboriginal Australians, ca 1813-1819] / attributed to R. Browne]

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    — NOTES

    General note

    `Natives fishing in a bark canoe' is the only work titled, signed and dated. The dating of the other works is from comparison to similar drawings in the collection. The works have also been drawn on Whatman paper dated 1813 `Ginatoo (Pussey Cat) was a well known female Aborigine who lived in Sydney ... She was murdered by Wawyanee a native of the...

    Signature / Inscriptions

    Only DGA 3 f. 1 is titled, signed and dated

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Purchased from Francis Edwards Ltd as part of the Dixson bequest, 1954

    Exhibited in

    A Rage for Curiosity

    Treasures of Newcastle from the Macquarie Era

    Identifiers

    — PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS

    Call Numbers

    DGA 3

    Record Identifier

    16AJqxDn

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    https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJqxDn

    — OTHER IDENTIFIERS

    Reference code

    411337

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