• 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 336
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, North Wall, no. 266
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  918346
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : ML 336
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 24 x 30 in.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• 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 335
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  T. Balcombe 1853 -- at lower right
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  dogs
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9482784

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