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C1859
Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Aborigines; together with the Proceedings of Committee, minutes of Evidence, and Appendices.
Artist:
Ludwig Becker (1808 - 1861)
Disbound parliamentary paper, viii pp, 106 pages, printed John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne. The fine lithographic portrait by the colonial artist Ludwig Becker comprises fourteen figures. The Select Committee of the Legislative Council was appointed to investigate the condition of … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Aborigines; together with the Proceedings of Committee, minutes of Evidence, and Appendices.
Date:
C1859
Artist:
Ludwig Becker (1808 - 1861)
Condition:
In good condition
Ludwig Becker (1808?-1861)
Technique:
Unbound
Image Size:
193mm
x 312mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1859
Description:
Disbound parliamentary paper, viii pp, 106 pages, printed John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne.
The fine lithographic portrait by the colonial artist Ludwig Becker comprises fourteen figures. The Select Committee of the Legislative Council was appointed to investigate the condition of the Australian Aboriginal people of Victoria with a view of providing for them. It was a far reaching report in which the chairman of the Committee Thomas McCombie states, “Your Committee are of the opinion that great injustice has been perpetrated upon the Aborigines-that, when the Government of the Colony found it necessary to take from them their hunting grounds and their means of living, proper provision should have been made for them”.
1. Portrait of Billy, a native of Port Fairy
2. Portrait of Tilki, a native from near the mouth of the Darling River.
3, 4, 5, 6, Skull of King John a chief of the Adelaide tribe.
7,8,9,10, Skull of a native from Port Phillip district,
11, 12,13,14, Skull of a native of the Warnambool tribe.
Biography:
Ludwig Becker (1808?-1861)
German born artist, explorer and naturalist. In 1828 Becker engaged at Frankfurt on Main in lithographic work. He arrived Launceston on 10 March 1851 and for many months wandered in Van Diemen’s Land paying his way by painting miniatures. Lady Denison, with whom he stayed for a time, wrote of him, ‘he is a most amusing person, talks English badly, but very energetically — he is one of those universal geniuses who can do anything … a very good naturalist, geologist … draws and plays and sings, conjures and ventriloquises and imitates the notes of birds so accurately’.
While gold digging in Bendigo in 1852-54 Becker made meteorological
observations and produced enough sketches for an exhibition in Melbourne
in April 1854. He became a council member of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts in
1856, and in 1859 of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, to which
he contributed many scientific papers.
Becker’s scientific knowledge and artistic ability were invaluable
qualifications for his selection as a member of the Victorian Exploring
Expedition in 1860-61, organised by the Philosophical Institute which in
1860 became the Royal Society. Becker died on the expedition and was buried at Bulloo just south of Cooper’s Creek on 28 April 1861.
