• Title
  Nobel prize for literature awarded to Patrick White, 1973
• Call number
  SAFE/R 643
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  10 Dec. 1973
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Textual Records, Medals
• Reference code
  421658
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 medal - gold - 6.5 cm. diameter, in leather case
  1 drawing - watercolour - 18.4 x 19 cm., in leather folder
  Textual Records - printed, 1 diploma - 33.5 x 21.3 cm., in same leather folder
  
• Scope and Content
  Certificate and medal in leather bound folder.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Artist plus 70 years (Medal)
  Copyright holder:: Norwegian Nobel Committee
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: No reproduction
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Artist plus 70 years (Certificate)
  Copyright holder:: Gunnar Brusewitz
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Gunnar Brusewitz
• General note
  
  Medal depicts Alfred Nobel in profile on obverse and a muse playing a lyre to a young writer on reverse
  
  Watercolour is signed by the artist Gunnar Brusewitz, at lower right. Undated and untitled. The work is inspired by White's novel 'Tree of man'
  
  Swedish language citation on the diploma translates into English as: "For an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature"
  
  This item has been digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 852956
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Alfr. Nobel Nat. MDCCCXXXIII Ob. MDCCCXCVI -- embossed on obverse of medal
  "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes. P.White MCMLXXIII. Acad Suec" -- embossed on reverse of medal
  "Erik Lindberg 1902" -- maker's name embossed on medal
  "Patrick White" -- embossed on leather case
  "PW" -- embossed on leather folder
• Subject
  White, Patrick, 1912-1990.
  Authors, Australian--20th century.
  
• Topic
  diplomas
  medals
  prizes & awards
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (Jan-Mar 2003 (diploma); Jan-Sept 2003 (medal))
  Australia and the Nobel Prize - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (December 2003 - February 2004). Applies to: medal only
  National treasures from Australia's great libraries - Council of Australian State Libraries (December 2005 - December 2006). Applies to: Medal
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March 2010 - June 2010)
  The life of Patrick White - National Library of Australia (April, 2012 - July, 2012)

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