• Title
  Sketches in New South Wales and Tasmania, 1827-1832 / drawn by John Thompson. Includes portraits of Woureddy and Truggernana drawn by Thomas Bock
• Call number
  DL PXX 31
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1827-1832
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  456611
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Albums - 1 album (9 pencil drawings, 4 wash drawings and 2 watercolours) - 35.5 x 50 cm. - ;
  
• Scope and Content
  1a. Near Lighthouse looking to North Head. 1830
  1b. Forest Scene - showing Iron bark from 100 to 200 feet high - in proportion to figure. 1830
  2a. From Mud Bank Botany Bay - mouth of Cooks River 1830
  2b. From South Head Road looking towards Botany Bay n.d.
  3a. View from Sydney of the Haunted Mill in Cockle Bay. 1832
  3b. Cleared Land. View from Littleham near Liverpool in Cumberland looking towards the Blue Mtns. 1832
  4a. Sydney from the West. St. James Church - the Rum Hospital - Levy's Mill & Theatre - Police Office etc. 1832
  4b. Mount Dromedary from the Ferry at Stony Point River Derwent V.D. Land 1832
  5a. Forest Scene on the Sea Coast between Port Jackson and Botany Bay, the Blue Mountains in the distance. 1832
  5b. Military Bathing Ho.[House] Cockle Bay the North Shore of Port Jackson in the distance, on the right shells burning for Lime - on the left a Wood Boat, with a branch for a sail. 1832 Jackson, on the right
  6. From Govt. House Hobart Town Nov. 1827. Pencil. 26.2 x 32.3 cm. Unsigned, `T' inscribed at lower right. Titled and dated in unknown hand below sketch.
  7. Hobart Town from S.W. June 1829
  8. The Company's Establishment at the Hampshire Hill V.D. Land From Nature 1829. Pencil & wash. 24 x 33 cm. Unsigned,
  9. Woureddy, Native of Brune Island, Van Diemen's Land. Watercolour. 28.2 x 21.2 cm. Unsigned ,'T' inscribed in lower right.
  10. Truggernana: Native of the southern part of Van Diemen's Land. Watercolour. 27.9 x 20.5 cm. Unsigned, 'T' inscribed at lower right.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Album probably compiled by Sir William Dixson.
  No. 6 attributed to J. Thompson by Sir W. Dixson (see DL ref. WD 53, p.101)
  No. 9 and no. 10 attributed to Thomas Bock after comparison with his drawings of 'Jenny' (SV 108) and 'Jemmy' (V/109). For further information on Thomas Bock drawings held by the Library see PXn 283
  No. 9 exhibited in 'A Century of portraits : an exhibition of portraits selected from the collections of the Mitchell and Dixson Galleries'
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823552
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bock, Thomas, 1793-1855
  Thompson, John, 1800-1861
  
• Name
  Truganini (1803-1876)
  Woureddy
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Aboriginal Tasmanians--Portraits.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Century of Portraits : an Exhibition of Portraits Selected from the Collections of the Mitchell and Dixson Galleries - State Library of New South Wales (1979)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9730961

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