IDNO

LS.109231.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.672.ACH1: "No.8. Jenny, [see no.6]."

Profile portrait of a woman named Jenny, wife of Timmy. She has a cicatrisation mark on her cheek bone line. [WV 13/5/2009, from record P.672.ACH1, JD 24/8/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Tasmania; Port Sorell

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 very similar image is found in the care of the British Museum reference number: with the following information: "Numbloote (aka Jenny)
Description:Drawing; watercolour, from a collection of nineteen Thomas Bock portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people held by the British Museum. It depicts the right profile of Numbloote (aka Jenny), a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman from Port Sorell.
Drawn by: Thomas Bock
Ethnic name: Representation of Aboriginal Australian
Date:1831-1835
Painted in: Hobart (Oceania,Australia,Tasmania,Hobart)
Inscription Comment:"26. A drawing of Tasmanian [female symbol]. Head. [One of] ... five drawings [22-26] ... executed in a bluish sepia." From MS145 'Catalogue of Drawings, Paintings & other objects of an Ethnological Nature', Royal Anthropological Institute Archive.
Representation of: Numbloote
Associated with: Tasmania:(Oceania,Australia,Tasmania)
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=1665129&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]