oil painting
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Ptg.5
- Title
- Object: Larratong native of Cape Grim V.D. Land
- Description
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Painting; from a collection of seventeen; Tasmanian Aboriginal woman wearing fur around her neck and a skin garment.
Oil on board.
- Production date
- 1853-1856
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Width: 14 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Oc2006 Ptg 5 and Oc2006 tg 6 are painted on the same Charles Robertson & Co prepared millboard. H30.3cm x W25.2cm
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This is one of nine portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people held by the British Museum which were done by Robert Dowling, based on the work of Thomas Bock.This work is based on one of Bock's works, also held by the British Museum - Oc2006,Drg.68.
- 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
- good, but in need of cleaning.
- Acquisition date
- 1924
- Acquisition notes
- Presented to the British Museum 1924 by the McClintock family, source of information; Elizabeth Ellis, Curator of Pictures, Mitchell Library, Sidney, Australia.
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.5
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Oc2006-Ptg5-Dow
