British Museum. Dept. of Ethnography - Portfolio 4118 Tasmanian Aborigines [M424], ca. 1830-1880

MLMSS 694

fonds

ca. 1830-1880, Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

Textual Records, Graphic Materials

432477

Copy print : MLMSS 694
Microfilm : M 424

microfilm reel 35 mm. - black and white prints

Thomas Bock was transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1823 and was granted a full pardon in 1833. He operated a gallery in Hobart and was the first portrait painter to practice professionally in Tasmania. As well as painting portraits of many well-known residents of Hobart he also did a series of studies of aborigines for Lady Franklin. These portraits of the Tasmanian aborigines are of considerable anthropological importance as they provide rare details of a unique people

Twenty-three watercolours comprising selections from a folder labelled 'Portfolio 4118 Tasmania aborigines'. They comprise drawings and paintings of Tasmanian aborigines by Thomas Bock and Robert Dowling and a painting by Benjamin Duterrau, also of a Tasmanian aborigine

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 18, p. 22-23
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M424
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Dept. of Ethnography, British Museum, Great Russell St., London, WC1B 3DG, England
Descriptive list available (16 p.)