• Title
  Item 08: An Aboriginal man, 1810-1821?
• Call number
  ML 696
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 196
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1810-1821?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  430585
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on wood panel - 33.4 x 27.8 cm. (panel); 42 x 37 cm. framed
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Work is untitled. Title devised from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• General note
  
  Previously titled, [One of the NSW Aborigines befriended by Governor Macquarie], 1810-1821?
  
  Original title was taken from pencil inscription on reverse of portrait, probably by a Library officer.
  Artist is unknown.
  
  "Painting was for years in the possession of Gov. Macquarie. It belonged to Mrs Agnes Flockhart, youngest daughter of Robert Porter, who was for 20 years in the service of Gen. Lachlan Macquarie and his widow as manager for their estate at Glen Forsa, Scotland" -- handwritten in pencil on reverse.
  See Declaration by Mrs Agnes Flockhart, that relics mentioned on attached schedule are personal relics of Governor Macquarie, 18 June 1914 ML Am/17 item 30.
  Transferred from original call number: P2, December 1972.
  Digital order no:a128458
• Date note
  
  Undated. Dated from the time Macquarie was Governor of NSW
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2010 - October, 2010)
  The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition) - State Library of New South Wales (November, 2010 - March, 2012)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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