Magil, Corroboree dance [ca 1819-20] / [attributed to R.Browne]
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Magil, Corroboree dance [ca 1819-20] / [attributed to R.Browne]
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SV/147
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YEGmwAKn
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Magil, Corroboree dance [ca 1819-20] / [attributed to R.Browne]
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Date
[ca 1819-20]
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SV/147
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Pictures and Watercolours
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Drawings - 23.5 x 31.5 cm. - 1 watercolour
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Magil, Corroboree dance [ca 1819-20] / [attributed to R.Browne]
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Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
Work is unsigned and undated; Dated from comparison with other dated works by Browne in the collection
`Two variants of this subject are known, one is in the RexNan Kivell Collection, Canberra and another was sold at Sotheby's Sydney on 24th October 1985, Lot 81' -- Sotheby's Australia Catalogue 29 Oct 87 (PICTURES/Q017.3/12)
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— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Sotheby's, 29 October, 1987 (Lot 153)
Transfer from SV* file in 2007
Pic.Acc.6417
Exhibited in
Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection
Treasures of Newcastle from the Macquarie Era
Administrative / Biographical history
Biraban (Magil, McGill, Magill, Eaglehawk, We-pohng) (fl.1819-1842): An Aboriginal leader who was a member of the Awabakal or Newcastle tribe. From boyhood he was servant to an officer at the military barracks, Sydney, where he learnt to speak English fluently, and was given the name John McGill. He served as an interpreter in court cases involving...
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Call Numbers
SV/147
Record Identifier
YEGmwAKn
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457943