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Title
45 Natives driven to the Police Court, by the Police for trespassing, 1845 [attributed to W.A. Cawthorne]
Creator
W. A. Cawthorne, 1825-1897
Call number
SV/97
Level of description
fonds
Date

1845
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Watercolours
Reference code
404926
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 drawing - watercolour - 31 x 45.6 cm.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Attributed to Cawthorne after comparison with a pencil sketch `Natives 45 men, women & children, dogs, puppies, &c. being driven [to] the Police Court ...' in Cawthorne's volume of [Drawings of Australian Aborigines, 1844-1864] PX*D 70 f.15a
Digital order no:a128855
Signatures / Inscriptions

Titled beneath image. Dated at lower left "1845"
Subject
Adult Males
Adult Females
children
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
colonial art
mounted police
race relations
Exhibited in

South Australia Illustrated: Colonial Painting in the Land of Promise - Art Gallery of South Australia (18 May - 17 August, 2012)

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