Category Archives: Mitchell Collection SLNSW

From Thomas Bock to Thomas Nevin: Supreme Court prisoner portraits

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“… portraits of prisoners taken in the dock …” THOMAS BOCK Police artists worked in the Supreme Court of Tasmania from as early as 1824. An album of portraits of “prisoners taken in the dock” (Dunbar, QVMAG catalogue 1991:25) by … Continue reading

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John Nevin: “My Cottage in the Wilderness” 1868

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The poem “My Cottage in the Wilderness” by John Nevin, 1868, father of Thomas J. Nevin, viewed here for the first time in four generations by a great great grand daughter, is held at the State Library of NSW, in … Continue reading

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