• Title
  Kertamaroo, a Native of South Australia [&] Mocatta, commonly known as Pretty Mary, a Native of South Australia
• Creator
  Theresa Walker, 1807-1876
• Call number
  DG PM 1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1840 (dated by Jane Hylton, Colonial sisters Martha Berkeley & Theresa Walker, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1994 p.71 (n.32) & p.90-91)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  88984
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 2 wax relief portrait medallions set into a velvet covered mount, which has 2 circular windows cut out of it in which the medallions sit: frame may not be contemporary - each medallion ca. 10.5 cm diameter, in mount 17.5 x 32 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Portraits identifed by Jane Hylton, Colonial sisters Martha Berkeley & Theresa Walker, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1994, p.55, p.71 (n.32) & p.90-91 cf. 709.9942307/1 Mitchell Library
  A portrait lithograph of Mocatta and Kertamaroo was published in "South Australia in 1842..." (London, 1843) opp. p.23 cf. 983.41 Mitchell Library. An imprint on the lithograph identifies the two portraits as being 'Model'd from Life by Mrs Walker'
  Lady Jane Franklin visited Adelaide in 1840, when she possibly acquired these medallions cf. Joan Kerr ed., Heritage, 1995, p.2: Ref.1/Q709.94/115 Mitchell Library
  Library officers previously described these medallions as being Tasmanian aborigines
  Transferred from DG P*1, June 1995
  Digital order no:62889
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  A label (probably written by a Library officer) on reverse reads "Formerly the property of Lady Franklin, who obtained them in Tasmania when her husband, Sir John Franklin, was Governor. Purchased from her niece Miss Lefroy"
• Name
  Kertamaroo
  Mocatta
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  colonial art
  medallions
  portraits
  wax models
  
• Place
  South Australia
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The work of art - Australian women writers and artists - State Library of New South Wales (14 August, 1995 - 11 February, 1996)

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