Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816. Presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Bolter, 1867.

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[Circa 1890]. [Title from image]. Albumen print photograph of a lithograph held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum; 260 x 180 mm, blind stamped J. W. Beattie, Photographer, Hobart at lower left; laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century album; some short edge tears and light foxing at top edge, otherwise in good condition; verso with another Beattie albumen print, a topographical view captioned in the negative Hobart, from the bay. 786, B. A rare late nineteenth-century photograph by J. W. Beattie of one of the hand-coloured lithographs produced by the Tasmanian Surveyor General s Office in 1866 which were sold to the public as souvenirs at the Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne that year and at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1867. The lithograph design was in turn based on the timber proclamation boards made in 1829 by George Frankland at the request of Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur ( not Thomas Davey, Governor of Van Diemen s Land 1812-1817). At some point around 1890, Beattie photographed the lithograph which had been presented to the Tasmanian Museum by Mr. A. Bolter in 1867, and which carries an inscription to that effect at the foot of the heading. Beattie sold his albumen prints of the Proclamation Board lithograph to an entirely new generation of souvenir collectors, which is testament to the enduring power of Frankland s imagery (from the perspective of a white audience, at least). Frankland s design for Governor Arthur s original procl

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