| Author(s) |
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish
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| Publication Date |
2018-02
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| Abstract |
One of the many unusual things about Thomas Bock is his penchant for drawing the dead. A remarkable series of post-mortem studies by him is contained in the pages of a sketch book in possession of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.<sup>¹</sup> The book probably dates from c.1835. Three of the subjects are infants. The death of a child was a common occurrence in the nineteenth century; twelve percent of all children born in Van Diemen's Land in the 1850s failed to reach their first birthday.<sup>²</sup> It is perhaps ironic, therefore, that the offence for which Bock was lagged to this remote British penal colony involved a child that lived - rather than one that had died.
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| Citation |
Thomas Bock, p. 88-101
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| ISBN |
9781911155171
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| Language |
en
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| Publisher |
Birmingham Ikon Gallery
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| Edition |
1
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| Title |
Death and Thomas Bock
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| Type of document |
Book Chapter
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| Entity Type |
Publication
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