• Title
  Aboriginal man in pursuit of game, ca. 1850 / attributed to Thomas Balcombe
• Creator
  T. (Thomas) Balcombe, 1810-1861
• Call number
  ML 568
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, East Wall, no. 168
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404718
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 57 x 45 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Previously titled: [Aboriginal hunting, ca. 1850 / attributed to Thomas Balcombe]
  First displayed to the public at Grocott's the Art Union in Sydney in July 1850. One of Balcombe's regular collaborators, Tom Newall was advertising in November that he would have prints of the work for sale....An ink sketch of the hunter's face, presumably a preliminary sketch is also in the Library's collections (P2/578)
  Reference: Reading the Rooms / compiled by Richard Neville and Rachel Franks.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned and undated.
  Work is untitled. Title devised from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Attributed to Balcombe after comparison with other works by the artist.
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians.
  Hunting
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2004 - November, 2004)
  Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2016 - January, 2017)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3141597

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