• Title
  View in Australia / John Skinner Prout
• Creator
  John Skinner Prout, 1805-1876
• Call number
  V*/Sp Coll/Prout/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1846
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  457805
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 44 x 56 cm - lithograph
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Skinner Prout, (1805-1876), artist, was born on 19 December 1805 at Plymouth, England. He arrived with his wife and seven children in Sydney on 14 December, 1840. He brought a complete lithographic printing press with him, and in early 1841 he started producing lithographed versions of his drawings of Sydney. In January 1844, Prout moved to Hobart and commenced drawing Hobart and environs for a series of lithographic views. During his time in Australia he went on many sketching trips throughout New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria, often with the sketching clubs he helped organize. On 3 February 1846, Prout set out on an excursion to Lake St. Clair in the Tasmanian highlands, and continued on to Launceston, and on to Flinders Island, where he stayed until early March. During this time on Flinders Island he drew portraits of Tasmanian Aborigines who were being kept there. Sources: Skinner Prout in Australia, 1840-48 by Tony Brown. ML Q759.994/53. Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  This image also appears in "Australia", by Edwin Carton Booth, illustrated with drawings by Skinner Prout, etc. London: Virtue, 1873-1876, vol. I, p. 45. ML DSM/Q980.1/46A1 v.1-2. In this publication the image is titled, 'Grass tree plains', and has been identified as being on Flinders Island, Tasmania. Also see Appendix 2, p. 80 in Skinner Prout in Australia, 1840-48 by Tony Brown. ML Q759.994/53.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed: J. Skinner Prout, undated. Title pencilled in bottom right-hand corner.
• Date note
  
  Date based upon artist arrived in Australia.
• Name
  Prout, John Skinner
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal artefacts
  axes
  grasstrees
  groups (people)
  rifles
  Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples
  
• Place
  Flinders Island (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20376053

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