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Ben Payne [B 5964] • Artwork

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Summary

Ink sketch with watercolour wash of a man on a horse with a dog running beside it. Inscription on the artwork reads 'Ben Payne, known as 'The Admiral', first runner of The Register newspaper in the early days of the colony'. [A 'runner' was a boy employed to deliver the newspaper after it was printed.] Another notation reads 'By F.J. Cox, from a sketch by S.T. Gill'. A (much) later note on the back of the painting reads 'an advertisement in 'The Register' of 9 December 1848 (p.1c) suggests that the runner's name was Harry Paine'.

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Physical description

Artwork (pen and ink, watercolour); 28.0 cm x 35.5 cm (irreg.), 40.5 cm x 55.5 cm (mount)

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1837

Artist

Cox, F. J

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Payne, Ben
Paine, Harry
South Australian gazette and colonial register (1836)

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Digitisation information

Date

19/12/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,269 x 3,459 pixels (14.8 MP)

Size

44.33 MB

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