• Title
  Series 2: Dattilo Rubbo pictorial material including album of photographs of paintings and sketchbooks and family photographs compiled by Anthony Dattilo-Rubbo
• Call number
  PXE 666
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  approximately 1870-1955
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Watercolours, Medals
• Reference code
  52968
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : PXE 666/vol. 1/p. 3
  
• Physical Description
  82 photographs - gelatin silver
  1 leather bound album containing ca.75 photoprints
  1 sketchbook of pencil drawings
  3 drawings - 2 charcoal and 1 watercolour drawing
  2 medals
  
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 1
  Album contains a brief typed (in Italian) chronology of Rubbo's life, a 1906 portrait photograph of Rubbo, a large number of photographs of his paintings which are identified and are often accompanied by an exhibition history and location, a photograph of the interior of his art school and a photograph of an illuminated address given to Rubbo by his students (who have signed it) in 1902.
  Embossed on front cover "A. Dattilo Rubbo, artista-pittore, Sydney".
  
  VOLUME 2
  Sketchbook of pencil drawings, mainly made during a European tour of 1907
  
  VOLUME 3
  Family photographs which include: sons Mark and Sydney and other family members (no.s 33-44 & 77-82) ; Mildred Russell Jobson, Dattilo-Rubbo's wife (no.s 15-32) ; Dattilo-Rubbo on a sketching trip with Brucie and Elsa Russell (no.46) ; Dattilo-Rubbo with Justice Herbert William Moffitt (no.45) ; Will (John William) Ashton (probably) with caravan (no.58)
  
  Includes photograph of an oil portrait of Dattilo-Rubbo by Frances Ellis with photocopied inscription "If at my death, the Press like to publish a photo of myself - this is the one I wish to be reproduced - and no others" (no.66)
  
  Includes 2 photographs of art society selection committees: 1 unidentified (no.60) ; and 1 of 1926 Royal Art Society of NSW selection committee
  Reference:
  William Moore, The story of Australian art, 1934, vol.1 p.167,
  
  Includes 3 photographs of Dattilo-Rubbo in his studio (no.s 62-64) : 1 autographed photograph of Evelyn Chapman in an artists' studio (no.65) ; 1 photograph of 1932 watercolour by Pearl Sheldon of a studio interior (no.68)
  
  2 medals : 1 impressed with "Firenze" ; 1 engraved "La cita di frattamaggiore"
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a1430001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Many of the loose photographs are identified on reverse
• Name
  Chapman, Evelyn, 1888-1961
  Royal Art Society of New South Wales
  Rubbo family
  Rubbo, Sydney D.
  
• Subject
  Artists and community--Australia.
  Artists' books--New South Wales--Sydney--Specimens.
  Artists' books.
  Caravans--New South Wales
  Medals.
  Photograph albums.
  Portraits.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  La Dolce Vita ? - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: Vol. 1; Vol. 2 no. 2
  The Italian Connection - S.H. Ervin Gallery (September 1993 - November 1993). Applies to: PXE 666 v.1
  The work of art - Australian women writers and artists - State Library of New South Wales (August 1995 - February 1996). Applies to: PXE 666 v.3 no.61
  The Dattilo-Rubbo focus room - Art Gallery of New South Wales (May 2011 - August 2011). Applies to vol.1, vol.2, vol.3/nos. 83(a-b) - 84

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