• Title
  Blacks on the way to Adelaide in custody Yorkes Peninsula June 22 1850 / watercolour by Edward Snell
• Creator
  Edward Snell, 1820-1880
• Call number
  SV/88
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  June 1850
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  413665
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour laid onto card - 18.8 x 27.8 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The drawing illustrates an incident Snell records in his diary for 22 June 1850: "Walked out and met the Prisoners, Ballara and Kerkawilla chained by the necks behind a cart and going to Adelaide in the "Frolic" to be tried. I made a drawing of this afterwards" - see Tom Griffiths ed., Life and adventures of Edward Snell, 1988, p.123.
  
  Copy print available at SV/88
  Digital order no:a128020
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at lower left.
  Beneath second figure from left "Bagnall"
  Beneath third and fourth figures "Coyte P.C. McCoy P.C."
  Beneath Aboriginal men, from left "Ballarra (Stealing Sheep) Kerkarawilla (Spearing Bagnall)"
  Beneath Aborignal man at right "Jem Crack Native P.C."
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  This drawing is attributed to Edward Snell. According to a note on the back of an old mount, the drawing was offered to the Library in 1931 with two other drawings by the same artist of Yorke's Peninsula, both of which were initialled "ES". Only this drawing was accepted by the Library.
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  grasstrees
  police
  
• Place
  Yorke Peninsula (S.A.)
  

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