• Title
  Sketches in South Australia, [ca. 1849-51] / Thomas Thomas
• Creator
  Thomas Thomas
• Call number
  SSV3B/2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1849-1851
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  447187
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 pen and ink sketch - 23.2 x 14 cm. - Sketched on reverse of a published sheet
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Thomas Thomas is known by three ink sketches filed at SSV3B/1-3. See Kerr, Joan (ed.), Dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992
• General note
  
  Undated
  Dating based on the other two known works by Thomas Thomas, which are dated
  Verses entitled ""The Emigrants Farewell"" by Eliza Cook are inscribed above sketch, however, no poem with this title appears in Poems by Eliza Cook (5th ed., illustrated. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1851-1853. 4 v.) or in The poetical works of Eliza Cook: a complete edition (London: Frederick Warne and Co., [1870?]). Poem may be incorrectly titled or attributed
  Sheet torn from engraved map of Asia published in London
  Digital order no:a928655
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Burra Mail -- captioned beneath stagecoach
  ""Shepherd"" -- captioned beneath figure at left
  ""Thos. Thomas"" -- signed above sketch at right
  ""J G C"" (or ""J C C"") -- initials at right in drawing of bullock
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  bullocks
  colonial art
  shepherds
  stagecoaches
  stockmen
  
• Place
  Burra (S.A.)
  

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