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17068
  • Title
    Series 03: Norman Lindsay sketchbooks and drawings, 1905-1919
  • Call number
    PXA 656/vols. 12-18
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1905-1919
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    17068
  • Physical Description
    Albums - 6 sketchbooks (ca. 265 drawings) - 14 x 10.5 cm.-25.5 x 35.5 cm.
    Drawings - 14 drawings
  • Scope and Content
    VOLUME 12
    ca. 1914
    Includes: sketches of beach scenes & wave studies, and the first sketches for the famous war cartoon `The War God Strikes his Song'. Also a portrait of Harley Griffith and a study for the girl in the `Woman I was ...'

    VOLUME 13
    ca. 1917
    Includes: sketches for Gay's `Beggar's Opera'

    VOLUME 14
    ca. 1915
    Includes: sketches of fowls and ships

    VOLUME 15
    ca. 1919
    Includes: sketches for `Lysistrata', notes on etching techniques written by Lionel Lindsay for Norman and a portrait of Leon Gellert

    VOLUME 16
    ca. 1910
    Includes: sketches of parts of a sailing ship and rural scenes

    VOLUME 17
    ca. 1905
    Includes: 20 pages for draft novel `Cut Throat Lane'

    VOLUME 18
    Includes: portraits of Harry Julius, J.H.M. Abbott and Ambrose Dyson
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Some of the drawings are annotated and signed
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