Author: TUGBY, DONALD; TUGBY, ELISE.
Title: The Rev. John Mathew and painted Rock: Perception and Cognition in the Recording and Reproduction of and Aboriginal Rock painting in the Grampians, Victoria. Contained within "The Artefact" Volume 5 Number (3 and 4). December 1980.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. 123-143; text illustrated with 3 full page b/w. illustrations, notes, bibliography, bound in original stiff stapled printed wrappers, very good copy. Melbourne; Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria; 1980. This paper is about the recording and illustration of a large rock painting known as Painted Rock or Glen Isla 1 in the Grampians, Victoria. The Rev. John Mathew recorded this painting in about 1896. he published a description with a Lithograph in 1897. However this illustration and the sequence of the figures in Mathew's original was altered and the whole painting was compressed.

Keywords: Australian aboriginal history victoria local art painting