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Title
Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla
Creator
Tommy McRae, 1830s-1901
d. 1891 Mickey of Ulladulla
Call number
PXA 364
Level of description
fonds
Date

approximately 1860-1901
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Drawings, Photographs, Objects
Reference code
69964
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : Drawings 1-17
Microfilm : CY 1049, frames 313-353. Copy of original volume including manuscript pages and clippings
Physical Description
9 drawings - pen and ink - 20.0 x 31.5 cm or smaller
7 drawings - pencil - 20.0 x 31.5 cm or smaller
2 photographs - albumen photoprints
0.01 metres of textual materials - 1 fascicle with 11 pages of newscuttings & 10 pages of manuscript - 33.0 x 20.3 cm or smaller
1object - disbound library boards, and original covers of sketchbook
Scope and Content
Library cover (bound 1918) for original sketchbook which is inscribed inside front cover "Mary (probably) Gatliff. Coburg November 9th 1886"
fascicle containing newspaper and magazine clippings about Tommy McRae : a letter from K. Lanlogh Parker (Catherine Eliza Somerville Stow) to Mr A. G. Stephens, undated, about McRae : a letter from Bertram Stevens to Harold Wright, dated 13 February 1913, introducing Mr H. E. Gatliff who was selling 8 drawings by Tommy McRae now in this volume : a note signed by H. Ernest Gatliff, dated 11 October 1913, describing Tommy McCrae:

1. Death or Glory (Aboriginal figures fighting), Tommy Mcrae
2. Aborigines hunting. Tommy Mcrae
3. Aborigines hunting. Tommy Mcrae
4. Returning from the hunt. Tommy Mcrae
5. Two aborgines hunting birds. Tommy Mcrae
6. Corroboree. Tommy Mcrae
7. Dance. Tommy Mcrae
8. Corroboree. Tommy Mcrae
9. Drawing by "Tommy Barnes" an aboriginal of the Upper Murray in 1862. Tommy Mcrae
10. Drawn by "Tommy Barnes" an aboriginal of the Upper Murray 1860 Philip Chauncy. Tommy Mcrae
11. Sketch of Squatters. Drawn by Tommy an upper Murray aboriginal, 1864. Tommy Mcrae
12. Aboriginal dance (on reverse). Mickey of Ulladulla
13. European and aboriginal figures, 1875. Mickey of Ulladulla
14. Corobboree. Mickey of Ulladulla
15. Pelicans and swans, 1875. Mickey of Ulladulla
16. Fish and sharks. Mickey of Ulladulla
17. Ships. Mickey of Ulladulla
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Variant title

Nos. 1-9,12-17 titles designated by cataloguer.
General note

Tommy McRae drawings probably purchased from H. E. Gatliff in 1913 as his note of 11 October 1913 bound in fasicule (kept in PXA 364 vol.1) refers to 8 drawings by McRae; it is possible that when the sketchbook was bound into boards by the Library in 1918 the Mickey of Ulladulla sketches were added.

Original volume copied onto preservation microfilm, March 1987, and included as item 84 on the 1997 'Select List of Records on Microfilm: Australian Aboriginal Peoples' (150 items), available for purchase from the Mitchell Library.

Microfilm copy available at CY 1049, frames 313 - 353
Copy Prints available at SPF/Australian Aborigines - Art
Digital order no: Album ID : 823830
1. pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.8 cm
2. pen & ink, 23.3 x 34.0 cm
3. pen & ink, 23.4 x 33.5 cm
4. pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.5 cm
5. pen & ink, 23.4 x 33.6 cm
6. illegible inscription at lower centre; pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.8 cm
7. illegible inscription at lower centre; pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.5 cm
8. pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.6 cm
9. albumen photoprint of original ink drawing, 20.7 x 32.9 cm
10. albumen photoprint of original pencil drawing, 20.5 x 31.8 cm
11. Yakaduna or Tommy McCrae(crossed out) Barnes (on reverse) Yakaduna or Tommy McCrae, pen & ink, 10.7 x 14 cm
12. Drawn by Old Micke the conductor of the corobbary before the Duke of Edinburgh, pencil & watercolour, 33.6 x 42.6 cm
13. pencil, 23.8 x 13.8 cm; inscribed on backing paper now removed: Drawn by "Mickie" an old crippled blackfellow of Nelligin, Clyde River NSW.
14. pencil, 19.1 x 23.9 cm
15. pencil, 24.4 x 14.4 cm; inscribed on reverse of backing paper since removed: Drawn by "Mickie" An old crippled blackfellow of Nelligen, Clyde River, NSW.
16. pencil, 14.0 x 24.2 cm; inscribed on reverse of backing paper now removed: Drawn by "Mickie" An old crippled blackfellow of Nelligen, Clyde River, NSW. 1875
17. pencil, 19.4 x 22.2 cm
Signatures / Inscriptions

Many of McRae's drawings have faint, now illegible, pencil inscriptions on the reverse, at lower right.
Date note

Collection dated by earliest known drawings by McRae and his death date : 3 of Mickey of Ulladulla's drawings are dated 1875: see also Andrew Sayers "Australian aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century", 1994.
Conservation note

Album was disbound in 1993
Subject
Adult Males
Adult Females
children
Aboriginal art
Exhibited in

Aboriginal Artists of the 19th Century - National Gallery of Australia (15 October, 1994 - 18 July, 1995). Applies to: Nos. 4, 6, 13, 15 and 16.
Artists and cartoonists in black and white - S.H. Ervin Gallery. Applies to: No. 4
Belonging to Country, Bunjilaka Gallery - Museum Victoria (October 2002 - May 2003). Applies to: No. 11
Windows on Victoria - Museum Victoria. Nos. 3,4,6,7 (loan period 3/12/04 - 20/1/06) ; Nos.1,2,5,8 (loan period Dec 2005 - Jan 2006)
Bloodlines : Art & the Horse - Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. Applies to : nos.12-13
Revolutions - Form that Turn - Art Gallery of New South Wales (June 2008 - September 2008). Applies to: no. 11
Premier State - Campbelltown Arts Centre. Applies to: Nos.14-15,17
ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March 2010 - June 2010). Applies to: vol.1 no.3
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