• Title
  Capture of Tho & J.N. Clarke ... / by G. Lacy
• Creator
  George Lacy, 1816-1878?
• Call number
  V*/Bush R/3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  446339
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - 33 x 47.1 cm. (image, within framelines) ; 39 x 47.7 cm. (sheet)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Clarke brothers, Thomas and James [or John], were bushrangers who were captured at Fairfield, N.S.W. in April 1867. They were tried by Sir Alfred Stephen for robbery and murder and were hanged on 25 June 1867. -- Reference: "Explore the Outlaws! exhibition", National Museum of Australia, online March 2005. Trustees, 1911
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The work is not dated.
  Provenance of item derived from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 977129
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed at lower right, "G. Lacy"
  Handwritten title on border beneath image, "Capture of Tho & J.N. Clarke. / By / Sub Inspector Wright, Sergt. Byrnes, & troopers W. Armstrong, F. Laughton, T. Woodland, / W. Lenehan, J. Wright, W. Welsh, W. Brown, G. Egan, W. Ford & trakers George, Pete, & Sir Watkin"
  "G. Lacy" at lower left on border beneath image.
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  bushrangers
  fences
  guns (small arms)
  police
  slab huts
  weapons
  
• Exhibited in
  
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (9 March - 16 June, 2010)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1028128

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