Bullock Driver's Encamping near a Sheepstation Burra Road, [1849-50] / Thomas Thomas

SSV3B/3

fonds

ca. 1849-1850

Graphic Materials, Drawings

447189

Drawings - 23.2 x 14 cm. - Sketched on reverse of a published sheet - 1 pen and ink sketch

Thomas Thomas is known by three ink sketches filed at SSV3B/1-3. See Kerr, Joan (ed.), Dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992

Dating is based on the dates 1849 and 1850 which appear in the sketch
A name, [?Crooney], above seated figure at left, is incompletely scratched out by abrading of the paper surface
A line of text appears to have been struck out with ink above the date ""1850"" on side of tent
An untitled poem is pencilled in upper half of page. Beneath is an illegible flourish in pencil which may represent a signature, but does not resemble the signature of Thomas Thomas in SSV3B/2-3. The poem is dated in pencil ""1849"", closely resembling ""1840""
Sheet torn from engraved map of France published in London

Shepherds Hut -- caption in sketch
""Burra Burra 1849"" -- inscribed on side of horse cart
""1850"" -- inscribed on side of tent