[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
Author / Creator
Date
[ca 1813-1819]
Call Numbers
DGA 3
Record Identifier
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
Terms of use
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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 o...
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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— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
411337