• Title
  [Aborigines 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 Aborigines 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
• Description source
  
  Titled by cataloguer.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower left.
  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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