• Title
  Aboriginal man hunting, April 1858 / T. Balcombe
• Creator
  T. (Thomas) Balcombe, 1810-1861
• Call number
  ML 1410
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, East Wall, no. 171
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  825161
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 24.3 x 19 cm (sight) in frame 41.4 x 36.2 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Thomas Balcombe (1810-1861) was a prolific artist of sporting, animal and Aboriginal subjects and also a print maker. From the mid-1840s through to his death, Balcombe was an active member of the Sydney art scene, and was a frequent contributor to local exhibitions and art unions.
  
  It is likely that Aboriginal man hunting was created for the apparently active “tourist” market of the early 1850s.
  
  Balcombe regularly painted pre-contact Aboriginal life. His most sophisticated interpretation of this theme was his large oil, Talambe, which he exhibited in the Society of Fine Arts exhibition of 1849, now in a private collection.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Collection history
  From the Estate of Pro Hart, Broken Hill, NSW
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Work is untitled. Title devised from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• General note
  
  Previously titled [Aborigines hunting], April 1858 / T. Balcombe
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower left.
• Date note
  
  Dated on reverse.
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--Hunting.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9481767

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