IDNO

LS.109229.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Tasmania.
[male symbol]. Timmy. head. (side)." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.669.ACH1: "No. 7, Timmy [see no.5]."

Profile portrait drawing of a man from Tasmania, named Timmy. He has short hair and has a shaved beard. [WV 12/5/2009, from record P.669.ACH1, JD 24/8/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Tasmania

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Bock, Thomas [Original Artist]

Collector / Expedition

Franklin (Lady) [Commissioner]

Date

circa 1839

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Pitt Rivers Museum has a series of Bock paintings, accession numbers 1944.1.7-12a, with the following information:
PRM Accession Book Entry - - [on facing page in blue ink 1944.1.7-12a. The watercolours are by Mr J. Bock apparently done while the natives were on tour with Mr G.A. Robinson c. 1831-1834 (See Penny Mag. 1834 at end of Ling Roth's Aborigines of Tasmania 1899). The blue-wash drawings (one) may be dated about 1839.
Refs. Pl omley N.J.B. in JRAI Vol 91.2 (1961) and in Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston (1965); Ann. Bull. of National Gallery of Victoria 1961 (copy in RDF). [JD 22/12/2008]

Biographical Information: Thomas Bock was born at Sutton Coldfield, England in 1790, and was trained as an engraver and miniature painter. Bock arrived in Hobart in 1823 and worked at No. 1 Liverpool Street as an engraver and portrait painter, where he completed portraits of many well known local characters. In c. 1839 Bock completed a series of water-colour paintings of Tasmanian Aboriginals for Lady Franklin. Thomas Bock died in 1857. [Source: Cato, Jack, 1977 2nd edition. The Story of the Camera in Australia (Insttute of Australian Photography, Hong Kong, p. 101. JD 5/1/2009]

Biographical Information: Thomas Bock was an artist by training although he announced his intention in 1843 to take daguerreotypes in Hobart. This was delayed until 1848 after George Goodman, the only photographic studio in Hobart at the time, threatened Bock with legal action. [Source: Chris Long, Tasmania - The First Photographs, Greenhouse, Melbourne, 1984. Cited in Davies, Alan, and Peter Stanbury, 1985. The Mechanical Eye in Australia (Oxford University Press, Melbourne), p.127, JD 5/1/2009]

Biographical Information: Thomas Bock operated a photographic studio at 22 Campbell Street, Hobart, between c. 1848 - 1855. Thomas Bock was the father of Alfred K. Bock who also operated a photographic studio in Hobart between 1855 - 1867 before moving to Victoria and opening a studio between 1867 - 1873. [Source: Davies, Alan, and Peter Stanbury, 1985. The Mechanical Eye in Australia (Oxford University Press, Melbourne), p.127, JD 5/1/2009]