• Title
  Natives of Australia, ca. 1890s / attributed to H.M.L. Atcherley
• Creator
  Henry Mount Langton Atcherley
• Call number
  SSV/117
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1890s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  879344
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - on paper - 9.6 x 15.8 cm (drawing); 19.7 x 27.3 cm (card mount)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Henry Mount Langton Atcherley was a Colour Sergeant in the Waikato Militia 1st Regiment from 1863–1866, and then served with the Opotiki Volunteer Rangers as Sergeant from 1869-1870.
  
  In 1877 he exhibited with the Auckland Society of Arts. He exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts from 1881 and the NZ Academy of Fine Arts 1895-1899.
  
  Atcherley usually painted Maori subjects. In 1898 he exhibited a watercolour with Auckland Society of Arts showing a New South Wales subject suggesting he had possibly been in Australia prior to this date.
  
  Reference:
  Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook at: New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://www.nzetc.org (accessed January 5, 2010)
• Scope and Content
  This drawing shows an Aboriginal man and woman, seated on the ground, wrapped in blue and red blankets. The woman is smoking a pipe and it appears that the man has a pipe strapped to his arm. The reverse shows a rough pencil sketch of a seated Aboriginal woman.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from mount
• General note
  
  This item has been removed from a larger album before its acquisition; 59C has been stamped on reverse, presumably from an earlier sale.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 971366
• Date note
  
  In 1898 Atcherley exhibited a watercolour with the Auckland Society of Arts showing a New South Wales subject suggesting he had possibly been in Australia prior to this date.
  
  Reference:
  Library Correspondence File
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians.
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  
• Topic
  blankets
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  pipes (smoking)
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE576105

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