oil painting
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Ptg.17
- Title
- Object: King Laratong
- Description
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Painting; from a collection of seventeen. An Aboriginal man from Spring Creek, Port Fairy, Victoria. Bearded adult male wearing garment over his left shoulder.
Oil on canvas.
- Production date
- 1856
- Dimensions
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Height: 11.30 centimetres
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Width: 13.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Oval
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2010 Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston; Geelong Regional Gallery; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - Robert Dowling: Tasmanian son of Empire.
- 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.17
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Oc2006-Ptg17-Dow
