Original sketches [for The Bulletin and other journals] by Phil May

PXE 819

fonds

1886-1887

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Photographs, Prints, Clippings

395478

22 drawings (with cuttings) - 45 x 34.5 cm
5 photographic prints
1 folder

Album leaves are numbered 1-23; reproductions in folder are numbered 1-14.

22 drawings (21 in pencil 1 in ink), 6 with accompanying cuttings of the printed versions; 5 albumen paper photoprints (1 stamped 'A.K. Syer' on the reverse), all mounted in late 19th century album bound in half maroon morocco

Folder of printed reproductions of Phil May's work, including illustrations for stories and biographical accounts from The Australian Magazine, 1 April 1908, the Pall Mall Magazine, October 1903; the Strand Magazine; the Bulletin (Henry Parkes' cartoon); the Studio, October 1897 (portrait of Frank Brangwyn, by Phil May); 2 cut-out caricatures of George Coppin and Tawhiao; 3 col. illustrations. Also chromolithograph by 'Spy' from Vanity Fair, 8 November 1890; and col. illustrations from Les cris des rues de Paris

The photoprints with the exception of that by Syer, may have been taken by Phil May and used as references for drawings

Title of collection taken from gilt lettering on spine of album. Most of the drawings are dated by the artist in pencil lower left
Label of 'Berkelouw Bookdealers Sydney' on left front inside board, lower right