Tommy McRAE
Kwatkwat people
Australia 1840/1844 – 1901
Black fellow spearing emu
c.1890s Collection Title: Sketchbook of Aboriginal activities
Wahgunyah, Victoria, Australia
Drawing, Sketchbook, Technique: pen and iron-gall ink
sheet 23.8 h x 36.0 w cm
Cat Raisonné: Lot 31 = Auction 14 August 1994
Purchased 1994
Accession No: NGA 94.1232.11
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Tommy McRAE
Kwatkwat people
Australia 1840/1844 – 1901
Black fellow spearing emu
c.1890s Collection Title: Sketchbook of Aboriginal activities
Wahgunyah, Victoria, Australia
Drawing, Sketchbook, Technique: pen and iron-gall ink
Support: cream wove paper
Tertiary Insc: Inscribed lower centre below image in brown ink, 'Black-fellow spearing Emu'.
sheet 23.8 h x 36.0 w cm
Cat Raisonné: Lot 31 = Auction 14 August 1994
Purchased 1994
Accession No: NGA 94.1232.11
Provenance:
- Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from Christie's Australia, Sydney, August 1994;
- From the auction, 'Australian and european paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture', Sydney: Christie's Australia, 14-15 August 1994, lot 31.
Exhibition History
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- 1994
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- Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century NGA
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