oil painting
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Ptg.12
- Title
- Object: Victoria Native
- Description
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Painting; from a collection of twelve. Side view of an Aboriginal man with beard wearing a possum skin cloak. Port Fairy,Victoria.
Oil on canvas.
- Production date
- 1856 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 centimetres
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Width: 14.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Pa12 and Pa 13 are oval pieces of canvas attached to a single piece of Winsor and Newton prepared millboard.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- in need of conservation.
- Acquisition notes
- BM Pic Doc 171 includes three pages of handwritten notes, titled 'Notes on the pictures of Tasmanian Natives' signed by 'H F McLintock 1924'. These notes reference Robert Dowling who painted 'a portrait of my father in 1879 and who (to the best of my recollection), my father told me he gave him the set of paintings of 9 Tasmanian Natives (as well as of a number of Australian Aborigines)'. It notes that Dowling exhibited a portrait of Vice Admiral Sir Leoold McClintock at the Royal Academy in 1880. From these details, it is assumed that Dowling gave these paintings to Sir L McClintock and his son, H F McClintock, inherited them.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2006,Ptg.12
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Oc2006-Ptg12-Boc
