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Title
Sydney Harbour Bridge under construction, 1929 / drawing by Jessie Traill
Creator
Jessie Traill, 1881-1967
Call number
XV/97
Level of description
fonds
Date

November 1929
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
840685
Physical Description
1 drawing - watercolour, pastel and pencil on paper - 55 x 40 cm
Scope and Content
Pencil sketches of a human figure on reverse
Description source

Titled on reverse in handwritten pencil
Signed at lower left and on reverse
Variant title

The Spider and the Fly
General note

Jessie Traill's series of six etchings and two aquatints created during the years 1927 to 1932, documents the construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge. The fifth print in this series, titled Sydney Bridge V Going Up, 1930, is closest to this drawing and is probably based on it.

Includes framer's label, (top has been cut off): `Thos. Whitelaw & Co. Artistic Framers 242 Elizabeth St. Melbourne.' The drawing was not received in a Whitelaw frame.
Signatures / Inscriptions

Framer's label, verso: `Title The Spider and the Fly / Artist J.C.A. Traill, 74 Bay Road, Sandringham / Price 10 Guineas'
Initialled by artist on reverse in pencil
"$115" -- handwritten on reverse in pencil
Date note

Dated at lower left
Subject
Women artists--Australia--20th century.
Women artists--New South Wales--Sydney.
Topic
construction (events & activities)
bridges
harbours
Place
Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, N.S.W.)

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