• Title
  Sketches and etchings of David Scott Mitchell, 1893-1916 / etched by Lionel Lindsay based on sketches by Walter Syer
• Creator
  Lionel Lindsay, Sir, 1874-1961
• Call number
  DL PX 131
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1893-1916
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints
• Reference code
  836241
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : DL PX 131/no. 37
  
• Physical Description
  1 album (2 pencil sketches, 16 etching proofs, 7pp. of textual material) - 35 x 26 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  SKETCHES & PROOFS
  [Mitchell] from a note in June 1893 (f.1)
  Memory jotting after visit to his library when ABP came back from [?] / An impression for The Bulletin, 1898 (f.4)
  David Scott Mitchell / Etched by Lionel Lindsay from the sketches by the late Walter Syer in the possession of Wm Dixson [16 etching proofs developed from preliminary sketches through to final version](ff.19-49)
  
  CORRESPONDENCE
  Letter from Walter Syer to William Dixson, July 25th 1907 about the sketches (f.5)
  Letter from Lionel Lindsay to William Dixson, January 15th 1916 about the sketches (ff.7-11)
  Typed transcription of January 15th letter (f.13)
  Letter from George Robertson of Angus & Robertson to William Dixson, 31/1/1916, about the sketches and their likeness to David Scott Mitchell (ff.15-16)
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Artist plus 70 years
  Copyright holder:: National Library of Australia
  Approval for reproduction required: No reproduction without prior written approval
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy National Library of Australia
• Description source
  
  Titled from album spine
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a1870001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  W.S. -- signed at lower left in handwritten pencil (f.1)
• Date note
  
  Most of the material is undated but the date range is approximated from the earliest date of 1893 given on f.1 to the latest date of 31 January 1916 on the Angus & Robertson letter (pp. 15-17)
• Conservation note
  
  Loose pages within volume
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Syer, Walter, 1854-1911
  
• Name
  Mitchell, David Scott, 1836-1907
  Dixson, William, Sir, 1870-1952
  Robertson, George, 1860-1933
  
• Subject
  Portraits--1890-1920.
  Correspondence--1910-1920.
  Adult Males
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A grand obsession : The D. S. Mitchell story - State Library of New South Wales (18 June - 30 September, 2007). Applies to: DL PX 131/37
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3259691

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