• Title
  [Aboriginal woman receiving alms from a European lady / watercolour drawing]
• Call number
  SV/90
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  c. 1884 (dated from companion work at SV/89)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  413745
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour on paper - 37.7 x 27.5 cm
  
• General note
  
  This watercolour is reminiscent of the sorts of images published as colour supplements in illustrated newspapers at the time.
  Mount marks around the margins of the work suggest that the drawing was once framed.
  The watercolour, with its companion "Aboriginal woman and children walking by a billabong" (SV/89 - you can navigate to this work from this record), appears to be a comment on the impact of Europeans on Aboriginal society. This watercolour shows the effect of Europeans on Aboriginal life, as well as European charity, in this instance provided by a beautifully dressed young woman. The companion watercolour depicts an Aboriginal woman enjoying what appears to be life untouched by Europeans.
  Digital order no:a128022
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Initialled at lower left "BH 1884"
  Pencilled on reverse "Metcher & Bone"
• Subject
  Adult Females
  girls
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  race relations
  rugs (blankets)
  welfare workers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3151211

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