• Title
  Item 06: Natives at a corrobory, under the wild woods of the Country [River Jordan below Brighton, Tasmania], ca. 1835 / John Glover
• Creator
  John Glover, 1767-1849
• Call number
  ML 154
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 157
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1835
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404665
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, in original Huon pine frame - 77 x 114 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled from correspondence between John Glover and George Augustus Robinson, now in the Mitchell Library.
• General note
  
  George Augustus Robinson commissioned this painting from John Glover, which he hoped to use for a frontispiece for a book he was planning (Mitchell Library MSS A7043 : letter dated 7 July 1835). Glover replied that he wanted the picture to depict "the Natives at a corrobory, under the wild Woods of the Country - to give an idea of the manner they enjoyed themselves before being disturbed by the White People". He also wanted to "give an idea of the Scenery of the Country" (ML MSS A7058 16 July 1835 p.398).
  The Huon Pine frame on the painting was bought from Robin Vaughan Hood on 10 April 1836 for 4 pounds 10 shillings.
  Digital order no:a928309
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  corroborees
  rivers
  Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples
  
• Place
  Jordan River (Tas.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (4 March - 29 June, 1997)
  The Picture Gallery 1 - State Library of New South Wales (February, 1999 - November, 1999)
  Australian Colonial Art - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2000 - November, 2000)
  John Glover and the colonial picturesque - National Museum of Australia
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2010 - June, 2010)

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