• Title
  [Pinnace and boat firing on native canoes with figure studies, ca. 1849]
• Call number
  SV*/NG-E/4
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1849
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  440190
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 2 pencil drawings on one sheet - 28 x 38 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  The primary sketch shows a boat [the Pinnace] with a cannon and several men on board. To the left of this vessel is another boat with a man firing at the native canoes. In the top left-hand corner are two studies of figures that appear on the main boat.
  The sketch on the reverse depicts four natives, possibly from New Guinean or the Louisiade Archipelago, and a canoe.
• General note
  
  Previously, this sketch was ascribed to O.W. Brierly, and the sketch on the reverse, "Ye natives finding ye Grapes are soure" to Thomas Henry Huxley. As the sketches are not signed, these attributions are difficult to substantiate.
  The inscription is a legend, with number "1" referring to the studies, and "2" to the sails.
  The sketch of the Pinnace has pinpricks along the bow of the boat and throughout the drawing that indicates it may have been a preparatory sketch for a print or another drawing.
  Dated from the time that the H.M.S. Rattlesnake was in New Guinea waters.
  Affixed to the reverse of the sketch (side 1b), is a white rectangular auction label with black letters, "254". This label is similar to labels that appear in the collection: Sketches on board the H.M.S. Rattlesnake made during the coastal survey of the passage between the Great Barrier Reef and the east coast of Australia, ca. 1848 / Oswald W. B. Brierly (PX*D 81 Mitchell Library) and other works purchased by D.S. Mitchell.
  A similar sketch, though of a different scale, [Pinnace and boat firing on native canoes] is located at SV*/NG-E/5 Mitchell Library.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846313
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Handwritten in pencil at lower centre of image, "1 .... Boats / 2. Loads" [or Louis i.e. Louisiade].
  Inscribed on the reverse, "Ye Native finding ye Grapes are soure".
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Brierly, Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.), 1817-1894
  Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  boats
  canoes
  guns (small arms)
  Pacific Islanders
  racial conflict
  vessels (watercraft)
  
• Place
  New Guinea
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1134727

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