Encounter. Mounted police and blacks / Godfrey Charles Mundy
- Bib ID:
- 6149301
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Mundy, Godfrey Charles, 1804-1860, artist
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- approximately 1850
- 1 drawing : pen and ink; 20 x 25.4 cm; on mount 24 x 29.3 cm
- Summary:
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This sketch is believed to be an anecdotal depiction of the Waterloo Creek massacre (also known as the Slaughterhouse Creek massacre), part of the conflict between mounted police and Indigenous Australians in 1838.
- Notes:
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- Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive or distressing. Please also be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions which reflect the creator’s attitude, or that of the period in which the work was created, and may now be considered inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive.
- Title taken from item.
- Inscriptions: "Encounter. Mounted Police and Blacks"--In ink lower left; "GCM"--In ink lower right corner; "By Genrl G.C. Mundy reproduced in his book."--In pencil on mount.
- Condition: Staining and yellowing.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138147309
- Published in : Our Antipodes, or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies / Godfrey Charles Mundy. London: Richard Bentley, 1852.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased 2012.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1860
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1850
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