Original artwork for W.M.Fleming's "The Hunted Piccaninnies" / drawn by Kay Edmunds

PXD 885/1-18

fonds

c.1927

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours

414380

Drawings - 7 watercolour, pen & ink drawings on artist's board - 41 x 27 cm. or smaller
Drawings - 1 watercolour, pen, ink & gouache drawing on artist's board - 41 x 10 cm. - Torn at centre left
Drawings - 9 pen & ink drawings on artist's board - 41 x 28 cm. or smaller - Most mounted on cardboard
Textual Records - printed, 1 hardcover book - 20 x 16 cm. - 185 pp. Extensive foxing on page edges

Book:
1. The Hunted Piccaninnies / W.M.Fleming. Great Britain: J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd., 1927
Drawings:
2. Closer and closer the kangaroos came
3. [White and Aboriginal child amongst bushes]
4. [Covered 2 horse wagon with men camped adjacent]
5. Opossum
6. That fella Dirrabondi (sic.) did this
7. Fish eagle, Cockatoo, Lyrebird, Magpie
8. [Aboriginal boy pulls fish from water while 2 other men look on]
9. It was a strange meal we had
10. [4 males carry firewood and a dead kangaroo]
11. [Aboriginal male captures a waterbird and 2 other birds escape]
12. Binjie cuts himself off the branch with Tomahawk
13. [Aboriginal man with spear, boomerang and shield]
14. The flames leapt up towards our pursuers
15. I knew at once who it was - Dirrabandi
16. "Tiu nucko" I shouted - which means "clear out"
17. [Kookaburra with worm in beak]
18. [Spine design] The Hunted Piccaninnies by W.M.Fleming. Illustrated by Kay Edmunds. London & Toronto, J.M.Dent & Sons Limited, New York, E.P.Dutton & Company. [Rudimentary sketches on reverse]

Single drawings are arranged in order of publication in the book

"Donated by J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., London, to Australian Authors Week, Sept 12-19th, 1927 [through & L.O.?] W.M.Fleming, Aug 26th, 1927" -- handwritten in ink on p.vi (1)
Drawings numbered on reverse in crayon
Publication technicalities and deadlines inscribed on front and reverse of most drawings
Signed by artist (1,5,6,12,14,15,16,18)