Series 02: Sketchbooks of drawings, 1882-1925 / by Tom Roberts

PXA 2481

series

1882-1925

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Textual Records

457936

MicrofilmRefer to Contents for location numbers

Drawings - 14 sketchbooks of pen, pencil, charcoal, wash and watercolour drawings -- 11.5 x 18.5 - 24.5 x 31 cm.
Textual Records - manuscript

Microfilm copies available at:

VOLUME 1
List of addresses at back of volume (including "McCubbin"), and one loose leaf with manuscript poem "That eye was in itself a soul".
(Request Microfilm: CY 588, 92 frames)

VOLUME 2
(Request Microfilm: CY 589, 53 frames)

VOLUME 3
(Request Microfilm: CY 590, 64 frames)

VOLUME 4
(Request Microfilm: CY 591, 25 frames)

VOLUME 5
Inscribed inside front cover "Loch Maben - 147 lbs - Mar 21/25 (T.R.)"
(Request Microfilm: CY 592, 26 frames)

VOLUME 6
(Request Microfilm: CY 593, 23 frames

VOLUME 7
(Request Microfilm: CY 594, 17 frames)

VOLUME 8
(Request Microfilm: CY 595, 27 frames)

VOLUME 9
(Microfilm: CY 596, 75 frames)

VOLUME 10
(Request Microfilm: CY 597, 5 frames)

VOLUME 11
(Request Microfilm: CY 598, 77 frames)

VOLUME12
p. 15, inscribed "T. R. Feb. 6. 98
(Request Microfilm: CY 599, 30 frames)

VOLUME 13
Vp. 21, inscribed "Feb. 98"
(Request Microfilm: CY 600, 57 frames)

VOLUME 14
Inscribed "1882" and "Tom Roberts, Student Royal Academy Piccadilly"; has list of addresses at back.
(Request Microfilm: CY 601, 98 frames)

All volumes are numbered by R. H. Croll, and renumbered by Mitchell Library cataloguer ¶¶See Research notes Pxn 575 and Tom Roberts, 1856-1931 : a catalogue raisonee / Helen Topliss, 1985

Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 575 -

PXA 2481/Vols. 1-13 were transferred from the Manuscripts collection, A 2481/part 6 (Vol. 9) in August 1997

Volume 14 Transferred from the Pictures collection MLMSS 824

Some volumes have blank leaves.

Robert Henderson Croll, author of "Tom Roberts : father of Australian landscape painting.

Another microfilm copy for Vols 1-13 is available at CY 508, frames 1-489.

All volumes are inscribed with R. H. Croll's annotations, including volume number he assigned to each sketchbook.

Most volumes are unsigned and undated.

Tom Roberts : Bailed up 1895/1927 - Art Gallery of New South Wales (25 July - 25 October, 1998). Applies to: vols. 4 & 6
The legacy of Charles Darwin in Australia - Ian Potter Museum of Art. Applies to: v.6/f. 99 ; v.14/ff. 46-47