• Title
  The Aborigions of Van Demonds land endeavouring to kill Mr John Allen on Milton Farm in the District of Great Swanport on the 14th December 1828
• Call number
  DL Pe 279
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1828 (dated from title)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  87879
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 pencil drawing on paper - 26.3 x 36.9 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This drawing records an attack on John Allen's property at Milton (on the west bank of the Cygnet River, east coast of Tasmania) on 14 December 1828. After a series of raids in the district by Aboriginal people, and counter raids by colonists, Milton Farm was attacked whilst Allen was alone. This drawing records his single-handed defence of his farm. The incident seems to have become a defining incident in his life, and was even noted on his tombstone. Family legend says that the drawing was sketched from memory, and was not immediately contemporary to the event (information from David Hansen ML 1043/98).
  For a later oil painting, apparently based on this image, see SPF/TASMANIAN ABORIGINES
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  Digital order no:a128132
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled beneath drawing
  On reverse in ink "Received from Mr Allen of Bicheno by Mr Gillon Jr / 26.6.80 / Mr Lyne has Milton farm now / So told by Mr Allen 3.8.80"
  On reverse in pencil "John Allen / Bicheno"
• Name
  Black War (Tasmania)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  race relations
  racial conflict
  settlements
  Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1656866

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