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A collection of fourty-one double-sided drawings by Charlie Flannigan and four envelopes

Archive Collections / William Ramsay Smith / Series AA 263/01 / A collection of fourty-one double-sided drawings by Charlie Flannigan and four envelopes

Described by Andrew Sayers 'Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century':

1.       An envelope with ‘MAJESTY’S SERVICE.’ printed in the Upper left. Inscribed ‘aboriginal drawings/Miss Watson/(c/o Alfred Searcy, Esq) Parliament house/Adelaide/with thanks’ dated 26/10/1909.

 2.       An envelope inscribed upper left ‘aboriginal drawings./from mr sowden.’ Formerly Accession No. 2377.

3.       An envelope inscribed upper centre ‘Drawings by an Aboriginal./Marked NRS. 1-5’ formerly Accession No. 2377.

 4.       An envelope inscribed upper centre ‘aboriginals/24 drawings by an aboriginal’. Formerly Accession No. 2377.

  • a = front

  • b = back

    5a. Horseman bailing up distant figures

5b. Stockman collecting water from a tank 10.5x16.7 cm



6a. Dozing horsemen; two men in a conversation.

6b. Interior with a man and a woman visiting a bedridden man; ship’s prow. 10.5x16.7 cm



7a. Horseman looking over cliff.

7b. Horseman in a landscape.


8a. Horsemen in front of a boulder. 10.5x16.7 cm.

8b. Horseman on a hill. Inscribed right side ‘flan’. 10.5x16.7 cm



9a. Two stockmen conversing.

9b. Horse. 10.5x16.7 cm



10a. Horseman among trees.

10b. Erecting a tent. 10.5x16.7 cm



11a. Horsemen in a landscape; street [?] with figures. 10.5x16.7 cm.

11b. Stockman with cattle



12a. Ships prow: landscape motifs; geometric figures.

12b. Three Buildings



13a. Steamer; stockyard and a man sitting in a landscape.

13b. Steep-sided hill



14a. Steamer  

14b. Steamer



15a. House.

15b. Stockman riding a bucking horse



16a. Stockyard with a man sitting beneath a tree. 10.5x16.7 cm.

16b. Steamer sailing up a river; unidentified motif.



17a. Stockyard with a man sitting beneath a tree.

17b. Steamer sailing along a coast; humorous figure



18a. Steamer, landscape.

18b. House



19a. Bearded man in a tent. 10.5x16.7 cm.

19b. Man sitting outside house with a pipe



20a. Horseman; various heads

20b. Horseman by a cliff. Inscribed lower centre ‘harry’.  



21a. Horse

21b. House



22a. Man in a slab hut playing cards.

22b. Horseman jumping a gully; various heads. Inscribed lower left ‘Harry’.



23a. Horseman with a whip; two heads and an aboriginal boy.

23b. Farm building; bearded man.



24a. Humorous drawing, spectators watching a foot race. 10.5x16.7 cm

24b. Landscape and bearded head. 10.5x16.7 cm



25a. Two stockmen and their camp. 10.5 x 16.7cm

25b. Horseman jumping a gully. Inscribed lower left ‘S[?] – B-‘ lower right ‘1892’.  



26a. Landscape

26b. House, bearded man



27a. Farm building, Flora valley. Inscribed upper right ‘FLORA-VALLEY’. 10.5x16.7 cm

27b. Wave Hill homestead. Inscribed upper centre ‘Wave Hill HomEsta’; left [on a tree in composition] ‘1883’.



28a. Victoria River Downs homestead. Inscribed centre ‘victoria homesta’. 10.5x16.7 cm

28b. Steamer



29a. Negri homestead. Inscribed centre ‘Negri homesta’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

29b. Verso: station buildings. 10.5x16.7 cm



30a. Acrobats, stilt-walkers and clowns. 10.5x16.7 cm.

30b. Humorous characters; horseman on a bucking horse



31a. Stockyard. Inscribed ‘RaCh-DOWN-FoaM creek/day’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

31b. Verso: house with telegraph wires; man camping. 10.5x16.7 cm



32a. Steamer. 10.5x16.7 cm.

32b. Steamer.



33a. Richmond Downs homestead (?). Inscribed centre ‘rachman Down HomEsta’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

33b. Homestead; fragment of a landscape. Inscribed upper left ‘hom’; upper right ‘creek’.



34a. Drawing of the front of Fannie Bay Gaol. Inscribed centre ‘long fellow/WaVE STaTaY’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

34b. Mount Long. Inscribed centre ‘Mount Long’.



35a. Station building.

35b. Station outbuildings.



36a. House; Aboriginal man in striped coat; Aboriginal man seated in front of wall; horse..

36b. Buildings.



37a. Steamer.

37b. Homestead’ heads. 11.5x18cm



38a. Steamer.

38b. Stockyard.



39a. Steamer.

39b. Horse.



40a. Facades of buildings in a town, a head

40b. Homestead buildings.



41a. Facades of buildings in a town.

41b. Station landscape.



42a. Fragment 10.5x33.3 cm.

42b. Fragment. 10.4 x 33.3 cm



43a. City buildings.

43b. Town buildings



44a. Homestead buildings 10.4 x 33.3 cm.

44b. Station buildings and landscape.



45a. Farm buildings. Various inscriptions some illegible: ‘charlie/Boss/Boy/Flann’.
10.5 x 33.3 cm  

45b. Fragment 10.5 x 33.3 cm

Creator: William Ramsay Smith
Control: AA 263/1/1-45
Date Range:  1892  -  1893
Quantity:    45   items
Series:  AA 263/01