• Title
  Proclamation to the aborigines, ca. 1828-30 / Thomas Davey
• Creator
  Thomas Davey
• Call number
  DL Pf 113
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1828-30
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  837009
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 35.5 x 22.5 cm, inside frame lines, on paper 53 x 33 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  The watercolour appears to be unfinished.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 704 -
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  Labels formerly attached to the reverse side, later attached (in error) to the back of the mount of DL Pf 110, are inscribed in ink 'No 572/A. Bolter/Hobart Town' and ' "Why - Massa Gubernor" - said Black Jack. - "You Proflamation all gammon - how blackfellow read him? - eh! He no learn him read Book." - "Read that then, said the Governor pointing to a Picture.'
  
  Library records note a label formerly attached at upper centre of watercolour which read: 'Governor Davey's Proclamation To The Aborigines 1816 Presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Bolter. 1867'; '572' was printed on a tag attached to the label.
  
  Watercolour is similar to that reproduced in black & white in Hookey, Mabel. 'Bobby Knopwood and his times'. Hobart, W. E. Fuller, 1929. opp. page 86.
  
  Spencer list 4096 (removed from album)
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Aboriginal Australians--Tasmania.
  
• Topic
  hangings (capital punishment)
  uniforms
  weapons
  law enforcement
  shootings (crime)
  announcements
  
• Place
  Tasmania
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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