drawing
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Drg.16
- Title
- Object: Barnaby Rudge from Cape Grim V.D.L.
- Description
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Drawing; it depicts 'Barnaby Rudge' (Manney), a Tasmanian Aboriginal man, standing, wearing a garment. 1845.
Graphite and watercolour
- Production date
- 1845
- Dimensions
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Height: 23 centimetres
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Width: 16.50 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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According to Robert Clark, the catechist at Flinders Island, Barnaby's Aboriginal name was 'Manney', meaning kangaroo testicle. See BM Pic Doc 171.
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It is one of a series of twenty one portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people completed by Prout during a visit to the Wybalenna Aboriginal Station on Flinders Island in February and March 1845.
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"Barnaby born at Hampshire Hills - white man kill his Tribe, except his Father, Mother, and their family of seven children - came to Flinders two years ago." - From notes given to Prout in 1845 by Robert Clark, Catechist at Wybalenna, Flinders Island (contained in Ethdoc 915).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2018 11 May - 28 July, Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, The National Picture
2018 17 Aug - 11 Nov, Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, The National Picture
- Condition
- Window mounted, in good condition.
- Acquisition notes
- In 1856 the artist John Skinner Prout sold Joseph Barnard Davis a collection of 36 of his portraits of Australian Aborigines and Maori people. After Davis's death in 1881, these portraits, along with other pictorial and ethnographic material, were acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2006,Drg.16
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc2006-Drg16-Pro
