• Title
  Alexander Pearce Executed for Murder July 19th 1824 / Thomas Bock
• Creator
  Thomas Bock, 1793-1855
• Call number
  DG P2/21
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1824
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  455687
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 2 pencil sketches on 1 sheet - 41.6 x 23.2 cm. (edges irregular) inside mount 38 x 55.6 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  Titled and dated below sketches
  Digital order no:a928968
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  sketched by Bock after the Execution -- lower right hand corner
• Conservation note
  
  Tears repaired: mounted Sept. 1990. Remounted 1991 -- information from back of mount
• Name
  Pearce, Alexander, ca.1790-1824
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  cadavers (people)
  convicts
  portraits
  sketches
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007)
  Thomas Bock : convict engraver, society portraitist - Travelling exhibition (February 1991 - September 1991). Drawing exhibited at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (not exhibited Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart)
  Australian Portraits Timeline - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (December, 2008 - December, 2011)

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