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Title
Number 226: Australian aboriginal cricketers, 1867 / photographed by P. Dawson, Hamilton, Victoria
Call number
DL Pf 140
Level of description
item
Date

1867
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
64905
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 photograph - albumen - 55.8 x 46.2 cm.
Scope and Content
Comprises oval photographic print comprising 16 oval vignette portraits, pasted onto cardboard. The names of the sixteen individual portrait vignettes is identified on each vignette:

"G. Smith Esq"
"King Cole"
"Dick a Dick"
"Tiger"
"Mosquita"
"Mullagh"
"Harry Rose"
"Cuzens"
"Bullocky"
"Lawrence Captain"
"Red Cap"
"Sundown"
"Twopenny"
"Tim Draw"
"Peter"
"W. R. Hayman Esq"

At the base of card is a lithographed pen drawing of a heraldic shield supported by a kangaroo and emu. Underneath the shield is printed "Advance Australia".
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Transferred in 1993 from Views of Australasia : album of prints from various sources, some hand coloured, ca. 1773-1848 (located at Dixson Library call no. DL PXX 84), Spencer List number 3468, no. 226.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823699
Signatures / Inscriptions

"Australian Aboriginal cricketers" printed in banners surrounding photograph
"Photographed by P. Dawson, Hamilton, Victoria" printed beneath photograph
Date note

Dated from reference to publication of image in Warrnambool Examiner 8 October 1867 cf. entry under Patrick Dawson in Joan Kerr, Dictionary of Australian Artists 1770-1870, 1992. ML location: Ref.1/Q709.94/87A
Creator/Author/Artist
Dawson, Patrick
Subject
Adult Males
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
cricket
cricket officials
cricket teams
cricketers
Exhibited in

Dixson 60 - State Library of New South Wales (2013)