• Title
  Thomas Bock - Sketches of Tasmanian Bushrangers, ca. 1823 - 1843
• Creator
  Thomas Bock, 1793-1855
• Call number
  SAFE/DL PX 5
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1823 - 1843
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints, Ephemera
• Reference code
  446134
• Physical Description
  Albums (26 pencil drawings, 1 lithograph?, and 5 printed cards) - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Thomas Bock, portrait painter, engraver and photographer was born in England in 1790. He arrived in Hobart in 1824 as a convict having been sentenced to 14 years transportation for 'administering drugs to procure an abortion'. He built up a reputation as a portrait painter and engraver and in 1832 was granted a free pardon. He is well known for a series of portraits of indigenous Tasmanians and also for the series of sketches he did of condemned prisoners both before and after their executions. He died in 1855.
• Scope and Content
  The album is bound in black leather tooled in blind and gold. There are 26 ff. in the volume. One sketch (f.14) has an unfinished sketch of three men sitting at a table on the reverse. Some of the titles appear to overwrite earlier titles, and one (f.10) replaces the same title that has been erased and is still visble. Titles for f.9 and f.18 are in a different hand, and the titles for ff.8, 13, 22-26 may be in a third hand. Measurements are taken from inside the mounts.
  [i] Bookplate of Sir William Dixson
  f.1 [Business cards of Thomas Bock (2) and Alfred Bock (3)]
  f.2 [Portrait of a man]. 6.3 x 5.2 cm.
  f.3 Martin Cash. 14.3 x 10.9 cm.
  f.4 Martin Cash. 21 x 15.3 cm.
  f.5 Dunn. 20.8 x 15 cm.
  f.6 Charles Routley. 20.8 x 15.1 cm.
  f.7 Matthew Brady [and] Patrick Bryant. 20.7 x 15 cm.
  f.8 James McCabe Matthew Brady Patrick Bryant. 15.1 x 20.6 cm.
  f.9 Thomas Jeffries / on Trial for the Robbery / at Mr Railton's [and] John Perry. 20.7 x 15.2 cm.
  f.10 William Brown. 21 x 15.3 cm.
  f.11 Samuel Hodgetts. 21 x 15.4 cm.
  f.12 Samuel Hodgetts drawn by Bock. Lithograph, 19.2 x 13.2
  f.13 James Goodwin Dunn Saml Hodgetts Wm Tilley 15.1 x 20.7 cm.
  f.14 James Goodwin. 18.5 x 12.1 cm.
  f.14a [Unfinished sketch of three men seated at a table]. 12.2 x 18.1 cm.
  f.15. William Tilly [and] James Goodwin. 20.9 x 15.1 cm.
  f.16 John Gregory. 20.7 x 15.2 cm.
  f.17 James MacKenney. 20.8 x 15.3 cm.
  f.18 Thomas Jeffries: on Trial for the Murder of / Mr Tibbs' Infant. 20.9 x 15.2 cm.
  f.19. John Thompson / Murder. 20.8 x 15.2 cm.
  f.20 Charles Routley. 15.1 x 20.9 cm.
  f.21 Charles Routley [his skull]. 15.2 x 20.7 cm.
  f.22 James Mccabe Executed Jany. 6th 1826. 15.1 x 20.7 cm.
  f.23 Jonas Dobson Executed 1825 for the Murder of an overseer. 15.1 x 20.7 cm.
  f.24 John Godliman. Execd. for the Murder of Mr Pike's Shepherd. 15.1 x 20.6 cm.
  f.25 - Pearce Execd. for the Murder of - Cox. 15.3 x 20.8 cm.
  f.26 Alexander Pearce executed for the Murder of a Man named Cox at Macquarie Harbour. 16.2 x 21.1 cm.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824222
• Subject
  Portraits.
  
• Topic
  bushrangers
  business cards
  convicts
  sketches
  
• Place
  Tasmania
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Heads of the people : a portrait of colonial Australia - National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
  National treasures from Australia's great libraries - Council of Australian State Libraries (December, 2005 - December, 2006)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1076928

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