IDNO

LS.109230.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Tasmania.
Jenny (wife of Timmy). c.20 yrs of age.
Native of Port Sorell -
(front view, head & breast, and side view, head only).
(2 slides)." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.671.ACH1: "No.6. Jenny, wife of Timmy [no.7] of Port Sorell, about twenty."

Half-length portrait of Numbloote (also known as Jenny, a Tasmanian woman and wife of Maulboyheenner (also known as Timmy), wearing a large fur? neck band and a skin toga. [JD 24/8/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Tasmania

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Numbloote (also known as Jenny); Maulboyheenner (also known as Timmy)

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: A similar image is found in the care of the British Museum reference, Oc2006,Drg.57, with the following information: "Numbloote (aka Jenny)
Description: Drawing; graphite and watercolour, from a collection of nineteen Thomas Bock portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, held by the British Museum. It depicts Numbloote (aka Jenny), a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman from Port Sorell. She is wearing a neck-ornament and a garment, and has scarification on her upper left arm.
Drawn by: Thomas Bock
Ethnic name: Representation of Aboriginal Australian
Date:1831-1835
Painted in: Hobart (Oceania,Australia,Tasmania,Hobart)
Inscription Comment: J.B. Davis Framed drawing No. 7 (written on old mount}
Inscription Comment: "7. Fine coloured drawing of "Jenny" [female symbol]. By Bock. Native of Port Sorrell. Kangaroo skin dress." From MS145 'Catalogue of Drawings, Paintings & other objects of an Ethnological Nature', Royal Anthropological Institute Archive.
Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Previous owner/ex-collection: George Augustus Robinson
Previous owner/ex-collection: Dr Barnard Davis
Previous owner/ex-collection: Rose Robinson
Acquisition notes:This was probably part of the collection of artworks and ethnographic objects which Joseph Barnard Davis (q.v.) acquired from Robinson's widow in the 1860s, and which AW Franks (q.v.) later purchased for the British Museum at the auction sale of Davis's estate in 1883.
[Source: https://britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1665125&partId=1&searchText=thomas+bock&page=1, JD 15/03/2019]

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]