• Title
  Aboriginal Hunting Kangaroos, 1840s / by an unknown artist
• Call number
  ML 1394
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, East Wall, no. 167
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1840s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  456653
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on cardboard - 18.5 x 25.4 cm (sight) in frame 30.5 x 37.4 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Unsigned; undated.
  Artist unknown.
  
  It is closely related to an aquatint titled "Charley" Spearing Kangaroo's which was published in Yarra-Guinea, ed., Frank Kennedy the Australian Settler, opp. p. 15 (Sydney: J.G. Grocott, 1847). This book includes illustrations said to be by "Tufts". The identity of Tufts is not known.
  
  This work is also closely related to an oil painting attributed to Captain Otway, RN, titled `Charley' Spearing Kangaroos, held in the National Library of Australia. It is more likely that Otway, a naval officer stationed in New Zealand in 1846, owned that work, rather than actually painting it.
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--Hunting.
  Aboriginal Australians--Implements.
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Kangaroo hunting.
  Kangaroos--Pictorial works.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9626361

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