• Title
  Kangaroo dog owned by Mr Dunn of Castlereagh Street, Sydney, 1853 / painted by Thomas Tyrwhitt Balcombe
• Creator
  T. (Thomas) Balcombe, 1810-1861
• Call number
  ML 335
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, North Wall, no. 265
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  441976
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 61 x 77 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled chiefly from donor's description, however donor identified the owner as Mr Dann. The painting was commissioned by Nicodemus/Nicholas Dunn, a ginger beer & soda water manufacturer who lived in Castlereagh Street in the early 1850s.
  References:
  The Artist & the Patron / Patricia R McDonald & Barry Pearce. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of NSW, 1988
  Ford's Sydney Commercial Directory. Sydney: W. & F. Ford, 1851
  
  A painting of another kangaroo dog owned by Mr Dunn with the same title, also painted by Thomas Tyrwhitt Balcombe, is located at ML 336.
  Digital order no:a128937
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  T. Balcombe 1853 -- at lower right
• Topic
  colonial art
  dogs
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
  Tails in the city - Museum of Sydney (December, 2008 - April, 2009)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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