• Title
  [Album of watercolours relating to the Great White Fleet, 1908]
• Call number
  PXE 965
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1908
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457400
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  16 watercolour and gouache drawings in commercially produced album - most approx. 20 x 29 cm.; smallest 11.2 x 15 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Aboriginal Australian and Native American flanking medallion portraits of King Edward VII and President Teddy Roosevelt, against background drapery of the Australian red ensign and U.S. flag] / J. F. Scott, 1908
  2. [Three-quarter profile portrait of King Edward VII] / A.D.R. [Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo]
  3. [Unfinished watercolour sketch of a Norse god (Odin with spear Gungnir?) and Neptune with trident, raising a toast with a horn and conch respectively, against ultramarine blue horizon] / Norman Lindsay, 1908
  4. [Portrait of Abraham Lincoln] / Alfred Coffey, 1908
  5. Suggestion for Decoration of an Arch / D H Souter
  6. [Unnamed U.S. Navy ship with fleet in background, tug alongside, motor launch flying U.S. flag in foreground] / C. E. S. Tindall
  7. Welcome Columbia / J. Muir Auld, 1908
  8. [N.S.W. coat of arms] / J. J. Legg
  9. Welcome [Australian soldier holding Australian blue ensign, extending right hand] / Arthur L. Crawford
  10. Washington / Hugh McLean
  11. Longfellow / Hugh McLean
  12. [Female personification of America, holding the Stars and Stripes, and surrounded by symbolic props] / Hugh McLean
  13. Paul Jones / L. Lindsay
  14. Welcome [female in gown and garland in front of U.S. and unfinished Australian flags and a rising sun marked 'Australia', behind a shield blazoned with the Stars and Stripes and a welcome banner] / F. Booty, 1908
  15. [Britannia, Columbia and Australia each seated behind a shield bearing their name and national flag; Australia wears a slouch hat and holds a shepherd's crook] / Claude Marquet
  16. Ben Franklin / J. S. Watkins, 1908
• System of arrangement
  As bound in album
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply: Artistic works in this collection created by artists deceased for more than 50 years are all out of copyright the remainder are in copyright
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder
• General note
  
  ff.2,4-9,11,12,15 are signed in picture; ff.4,7 dated in picture; ff.5,7,9,13,14 titled from picture
  ff.1-3,10,12-16 have artist's name inscribed on mount; ff.1,3,14,16 dated on mount; ff.4,10,11,16 titled on mount
  f.2: 'Dattilo' is misspelled 'Datillo' in pencil on mount; signed 'A.D.R.' in brushpoint at picture lower right
  f.12: 'McLean' is misspelled 'Maclean' in pencil on mount; signed 'Hugh McLean' in brushpoint at picture lower left
  The album contains poster designs commissioned by Fairfax Promotions & Advertising for the visit of the United States Navy 'Great White Fleet', 1908, but not accepted -- information supplied by vendor
  Digital order no:Album ID : 866911
• Conservation note
  
  Front cover and some leaves of album detached. Foxing and other marks throughout.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Auld, James Muir, 1879-1942
  Booty, Frederick Francis, 1879-1913
  Coffey, Alfred, 1869-1950
  Crawford, Arthur L.
  Dattilo-Rubbo, Antonio, 1870-1955
  Legg, J. J.
  Lindsay, Lionel, Sir, 1874-1961
  Lindsay, Norman, 1879-1969
  MacLean, Hugh
  Marquet, Claude, 1869-1919
  Scott, James Fraser (1877-1932)
  Souter, D. H., 1862-1935
  Tindall, Charles E. S., 1863-1951
  Watkins, J. S. (John Samuel), 1866-1942
  
• Name
  Edward, VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910
  Great White Fleet (1908)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  battleships
  coats of arms
  design drawings
  emblems
  flags
  portraits
  symbols
  watercolours
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1157647

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