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Other picture boards in Van Diemen’s Land: The recovery of lost illustrations of frontier violence and relationships
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Brodie, ND and Harman, K, Other picture boards in Van Diemen's Land: The recovery of lost illustrations of frontier violence and relationships, Aboriginal History, 41 pp. 3-21. ISSN 0314-8769 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.22459/AH.41.2017.01
Abstract
Art history is replete with works whose prior existence is affirmed only by text, most commonly through titles and descriptions in catalogues, but also by passing mentions in other sources. A significant Australian colonial illustration of this phenomenon of textually surviving lost art concerns ‘Several Paintings on Panel’, described in detail by a colonial witness, which depict scenes intended to convey government messages to Indigenous Tasmanians during the Vandemonian War. These descriptions do not match the better known and frequently reproduced Tasmanian Picture Boards, typified in Figure 1, which survive in several archives around the world and have been the subject of considerable study and commentary. Their iconographical recovery is, we argue, an important correction to the imagery of frontier relations in 1820s and 1830s Van Diemen’s Land specifically and colonial Australia more generally.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | history, Australia, Tasmania |
Research Division: | History, Heritage and Archaeology |
Research Group: | Historical studies |
Research Field: | Australian history |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology |
UTAS Author: | Brodie, ND (Dr Nicholas Brodie) |
UTAS Author: | Harman, K (Associate Professor Kristyn Harman) |
ID Code: | 123432 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2018-01-08 |
Last Modified: | 2018-05-08 |
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