[Giulio Anivitti sketchbooks and photographs]

PXB 284

fonds

1860s - 1870s (dated from dated drawings in sketchbooks)

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs, Paintings

52967

5 sketchbooks - various sizes
1 photographic print - carte-de-visite
1 photographic print - panel
1 painting - oil on canvas - 14 x 12.5 cm.

The five sketchbooks contain mainly pencil drawings which include preparatory, anatomical, portrait (many dated Sydney 1874 and 1875) and copy drawings, probably of European paintings. There is a small amount of text, in both English and Italian.
There is a watercolour drawing of Sydney Harbour from Milson's Point vol. 5 (Call No.: PXB 284 (v.5))
A small portrait oil (possibly a male Aborigine) sketch on canvas, which had been loosely inserted, was removed from vol. 5. It is now mounted separately but kept with the rest of the collection.
Collection also includes a carte-de-visite photograph by Giulio Anivitti of an unidentified woman and a panel photograph of Giuseppe Anivitti.

The pencil portrait sketch in vol. 2 p.9 is similar to the oil portrait by Anivitti of Professor Charles Badham, in the University of Sydney collections.
Transfer from the Manuscripts Section (Anivitti family papers). Location number: MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1966 Mitchell Library / The Italians in New South Wales Project.
Also described in Italians in New South Wales : A Guide to the Archives in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (1995) (Mitchell Library Manuscripts Guides; no. 17). A copy of this guide is located on the manuscripts' guides shelf in the Mitchell Library Reading Room and at Q305.8510944/5 Mitchell Library.

The Italian Connection - S.H. Ervin Gallery (23 September - 14 November, 1993). Applies to: PXB 284 vol. 3