• Title
  [Pinnace and boat firing on native canoes / attributed to Oswald W.B. Brierly]
• Creator
  Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
• Call number
  SV*/NG-E/5
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1849
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  440132
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 pencil drawing - 23.8 x 35 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  During a surveying expedition of the H.M.S. Rattlesnake on 4th July 1849, the men of Joannet Island attacked the ship's pinnace and galley and wounded two sailors. After a brief skirmish, the Islanders retired in disarray, their spears and stone axes being no match for the muskets and a brass howitzer of the Rattlesnake crew. -- Reference: Curator of Manuscripts, June 2004.
• General note
  
  Brierly can be seen standing by the main mast holding a pencil in his right hand and clutching a sketchbook under his left arm.
  There are two columns of numbers at the centre of the drawing.
  The sketch has pinpricks along the bow of the boat and throughout the drawing.
  Dated from the entry in Brierly's journal for 9 October 1849 (A 508) - 'worked up a sketch of our affair with the natives of Joannet Island in the Louisiade.'
  This drawing was previously ascribed to Thomas Henry Huxley but there is no evidence that he is the author of this work.
  A similar sketch, though of a different scale, is on reverse of "Ye natives finding ye Grapes are soure" (SV*/NG-E/4).
  Digital order no:a128902
• Topic
  boats
  guns (small arms)
  portraits
  racial conflict
  sailors
  vessels (watercraft)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3190707

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