drawing
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Drg.17
- Title
- Object: Bessy Roo [from] one of the Islands, Circular Head. V.D.L
- Description
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Drawing; it depicts Bessy Roo, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman, sitting slightly reclined. She is wearing a head scarf and a garment. Signed and inscribed. 1845.
Graphite and watercolour
- Production date
- 1845
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.70 centimetres
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Width: 16.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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.17
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc2006-Drg17-Pro