• Title
  Sketches in Australia, ca. 1851-60? / G. Lacy
• Creator
  George Lacy, 1816-1878?
• Call number
  PXD 3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1851-1860?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  448983
• Physical Description
  Albums - 1 album (10 watercolour drawings) - 56 x 47 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Opossum hunting. 42.5 x 30cm., inside mount.
  2. In trouble. 29.2 x 40cm., inside mount.
  3. Poor Undelight. 28.7 x 41.5 cm., inside mount.
  4. Bushrangers:- All right stand by. 36.5 x 27.5 cm., inside oval mount.
  5. "Hands up". 31 x 24.8cm., inside mount.
  6. Billy Blue. 35.5 x 29cm., inside oval mount.
  7. Bush fire. 28.2 x 39cm., inside mount.
  8. A cooling shower. Signed "G. Lacy" lower right. 27.2 x 39cm., inside mount
  9. "Hollo, Bill, what waltz do you call that?" Signed "G. Lacy", lower right. 27.2 x 39cm., inside mount.
  10. "Go it, Frying-pan, head Him down the Flat." Signed "G. Lacy" lower right. In pencil along lower edge and hand printed on window mount. 27 x 39.5 cm., inside mount.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Title hand printed in black ink on window mount. Numbers 1-7 unsigned.
  Dated by comparison to other works, see PX*D 243/7-13 & PXD 254/35-36.
  A wash drawing, 13 x 17 in., by G. Lacy, with the same title as no. 10, was offered by Leonard Joel ... 20 Mar. 1970, Lot 159.
  Detailed contents list filed with the volume and at Reference shelf.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 846106
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  `G. Lacy' -- nos. 8-10 at lower right
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bushfires
  bushrangers
  camps
  caricatures
  hunting
  manners & customs
  prisoners
  
• Exhibited in
  
  On the Run. Daring Convict Escapes - State Library of New South Wales (6 November, 2006 - 9 February, 2007). Applies to: no.5
• Open Rosetta viewer
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