• Title
  Chief Derah Mat [Derrimut] of Port Philip, 5 October 1836 / painted by Benjamin Duterrau
• Creator
  Benjamin Duterrau, 1767-1851
• Call number
  DG 371
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 148
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1837
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  447273
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - image 91 x 71 cm. in frame 103 x 84 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled in pencil on reverse, though hardly legible. There is also a handwritten label affixed to reverse, from which the title has been taken
  Derrimut was chief of the Yarra tribe. He forewarned Victorian colonists of a planned attack by Aborigines against them. Thus a massacre was averted but Derrimut's betrayal nearly cost him his life at the hands of the tribes he betrayed. Source: Treasures of the State Library of New South Wales / Anne Robertson. Sydney: William Collins P/L, 1988, pp. 132-133
  Digital order no:a928628
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  ""B.D. [?] 1837"" -- painted at lower right. Part of the inscription, now indecipherable, between the initials and the year, is possibly the month
  ""No.2"" -- painted on reverse of canvas
• Subject
  Derrimut, died 1864
  Derrimut, died 1864--Pictorial works.
  Derrimut, died 1864--Portraits.
  Aboriginal Australians.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection

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