• Title
  Item 01: Aboriginal man fishing, ca. 1853
• Call number
  ML 1453
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, East Wall, no. 169
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1000032
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on board - visible image 33.8 x 40.2 cm., in frame 38.5 x 48.5
  
• Collection history
  Descent from Thomas Balcombe through Balcombe family to vendor
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Work is untitled. Title devised from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• General note
  
  Previously titled [Aborigine fishing, ca. 1853]
  Housed in original plaster gilt frame with timber inlay painted gold.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower left and inscribed on verso: T. Balcombe
  
  Pasted on back of frame: Handwritten and typescript clippings of biographical notes on Thomas Balcombe ; typewritten obituary of Mrs Balcombe ; framing label of Winsor & Newtown, London ; Menzie's auction sticker, 2015 ; '23783'
• Conservation note
  
  Work in good condition. Fine drying cracks across surface of paint, with small isolated area of paint loss in upper left-hand quadrant. Minor rubbing where board meets frame edging. Minor wear to gilding on frame.
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9482631

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