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Sweet Damper and Gossip - Tommy Barnes or Yakaduna

Sweet Damper & Gossip: Colonial Sightings from the Goulburn and North-East

Dates:
1994

Artists:
Dr Baylie, Gordon Bennett, Richard Hanmer Bunburry, John Cotton, Francis Edward Gilbert, George Alexander Gilbert, Henry Godfrey, Eugene von Guérard, Thomas Ham, Henry Kingsley, Leah King-Smith, Charles Joseph La Trobe, Caroline Le Souëf (née Cotton), William Le Souëf, John Skinner Prout, Francis Guillemard Simpkinson, William Thomas, Imants Tiller, Yakadina

Curators:
Paul Fox and Jennifer Phipps

Location:
Benalla Art Gallery, Vic.
Shepparton Art Gallery, Vic.
1994

Touring:
Monash University Gallery
Monash University, Clayton Campus
17 February – 26 March 1994

^{Image: Yakaduna (also known as Tommy Barnes), Aboriginal Scenes and European People 1862, pen and ink on blue paper, 20.2 x 33.2 cm. La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne}

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