• Title
  Feast, given to the Natives - by Governor Gawler October - 1838 - Adelaide. S.A. / Mary Hindmarsh
• Creator
  Mary Stephen, Mrs G. M.
• Call number
  SV/106
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1838
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  442452
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 2 drawings (1 watercolour and pencil - 1 ink drawing) - 26.5 x 36 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The work was executed by Mary Hindmarsh prior to her marriage to George Milner Stephen in 1840 and is signed "Mary H".
• Scope and Content
  A group of European settlers, soliders, and Aborigines stand in a rough circle at the foreground of a bush setting. Two tents are in the background.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  On the reverse of the drawing is an ink sketch of a figure with a bag over his shoulder.
  Affixed to the Library mount is a paper label with the handwritten text, "Feast given to the Aborigines, / by Governor Gawker, / Adelaide 1838"
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874371
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title taken from inscription in ink on reverse.
  Artist signature at end of title, "Mary H."
  "Mary Stephen" at upper left on reverse.
  At lower right on reverse, possibly in a different hand, "Feast to the Aborigines ... / October 1838"
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  eating & drinking
  feasts
  race relations
  tents
  
• Place
  Adelaide (S. Aust.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Visions of Adelaide, 1836-1886 - Art Gallery of South Australia (28 October, 2005 - 5 February, 2006)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3324185

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