Guide to the Paintings of the British Museum, Department of Ethnography (as filmed by the AJCP)
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Summary
- Collection number:
- M424
- Creator:
- British Museum. Department of Ethnography
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Availability:
- Available
- Access conditions:
- Available for reference.
Background
- Content Summary:
- 23 watercolours comprising selections from a folder labelled Portfolio 4118 Tasmanian Indigenous Australians. They comprise drawings and paintings of Indigenous Australians (Tasmania) by Thomas Bock (1790-1857) and Robert Dowling (1827-1886) and a painting by Benjamin Duterreau, also of an Indigeneous Australian (Tasmania).
- Biographical / Historical:
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The Department of Ethnography in the British Museum was created in 1946. The ethnographic collections had previously been the responsibility of the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. From 1970 to 2004 the Department of Ethnography was housed at 6 Burlington Gardens and for most of that time it was known as the Museum of Mankind. In 2004 it moved back to the British Museum in Bloomsbury.
The British Museum acquired the collection of drawings and paintings of J.B. Davis at the sale of his estate in 1883. Joseph Barnard Davis (1801-1881) was a Staffordshire doctor and editor of the Journal of Anthropology. He amassed the largest collection of skulls and skeletons in Britain, nearly all with histories. The collection eventually passed to the Royal College of Surgeons. Davis also collected portraits of Indigenous Australians. In 1867 he acquired a large collection of prints, drawings and ethnographic objects from the widow of George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866), who for twenty years had lived and worked with Indigneous Australians in Van Diemen's Land and Port Phillip.
Access and use
- Conditions Governing Access:
- Available for Access.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
- Contact: