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861268
  • Title
    Sketches, etchings, copy photographs of watercolours etc., and personal photographs, ca. 1900-1949 / Sydney Ure Smith
  • Creator
  • Call number
    DG*D 25
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1900-1949
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    861268
  • Physical Description
    213 sheets (drawings, prints, photographs and reproductions)
  • Scope and Content
    Contents:
    i. Photographs of original pictures by S.U. Smith, many reproduced in various publications
    ii. Photographs of Sydney Ure Smith, his family and his associates
    iii. Etchings by Sydney Ure Smith, Lionel Lindsay, Norman Lindsay, Elioth Gruner, Berry Dyson, John Shirlow and E. Warner
    iv. Sketches by Sydney Ure Smith
    v. A miscellaneous collection of reproductions, and sketches including a crayon study by Elaine Haxton

    Photographs of original works by Sydney Ure Smith
    1a-b. State Government House from the Astor 1945 (2 prints) - Plate on p,5 of Marjorie Barnard:'The Sydney Book'
    2. The Bridge from Vaucluse. 1943 - Plate on p.452 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    3a-b. Parliament House, Macquarie Street, from Federation House. 1944 (2 prints) - Plate on p.32 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    4a-c. Carthona, Double Bay 1947 (3 prints) Negative at FM1/384 - Plate on p.44 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    5. [Shark Island from Point Piper ?] 1949
    6. [Shark Island from Wollahra Point ?]
    7a-c. Tree (3 prints)
    8. Observatory Hill from Kyle House, 1932 - Plate on p.28 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    9. Clarke Island from' Neidpath', Darling Point - Plate on p.44 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    10. Shops, Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross. 1936
    11a-c. Point Piper from Bellevue Hill 1946 (3 prints) - Plate 31 in Nester Griffiths' Point Past & Present'
    12. Old House, Millers Point 1944 - Plate on p.40 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    13. [Clark Island] 1937
    14. [Parliament House] 1933
    15. [Establishment of L.G.Price, builder, Phillip Street] 1945
    16. [Double Bay]
    17. [Old Mint, Macquarie Street] 1936
    18. [Potts Point, showing Garden Island]
    19. [Unidentified house] 1942
    20. [Unidentified Sydney Street] 1946
    21a-d. Double Bay from Princeton Flat, Edgecliff, 1943 - (4 prints) - Plate on p.8 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    22. [Sydney Heads from Wollahra?]
    23a-b. [Parliament House] 1945 (2 prints)
    24. [Old Mint Macquarie Street]
    25. Houses in Jamieson Street Nos.20 & 22 - Plate on p.34 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    26. [Landscape] 1937
    27. [Landscape] 1938
    28. [Landscape] 1937
    29. [Landscape] 1936
    30. Main Street, (Queen Street) Campbelltown. - Plate 2 in' Old Colonial By - Ways' by S.U.Smith & A.B. Bertie
    31. Barn, Ambleside, S.A. - Plate53 in Smith & Bertie: Old Colonial By - Ways'
    32. [Interior]
    33. [Trees & House]
    34. [Landscape] 1935
    35. [Landscape] 1937
    36. [Landscape] 1937
    37. [Hyde Park Barracks] 1943
    38. Old Houses, Princes Street - Plate on p.38 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    39. Old Houses, Miller's Point, 1945 - Plate on p.41 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    40. [Verandah of unidentified colonial house]
    41. [Bush Cottage, Campbelltown District, on the Road to Appin] - (cf. Plate 8 in Smith & Bertie's' Old Colonial By - Ways')
    42. Village street, Cobbitty - Plate 15 of Bertie & Smith's Old Colonial By - Ways'
    43. [Country Cottage]
    44. [Old Cottage, Cobbitty] - (cf. Plate 14 Smith & Bertie's' Old Colonial By - Ways')
    45. Yaralla, Concord 1937 - Plate on p.76 of Nester Griffiths"Some Homes & People of N.S.W.'
    46. [Trees]
    47. [Landscape]
    48. Farmyard, Ambleside, South Australia - Plate 52 in Smith & Bertie's:' Old Colonial By - Ways'
    49. [Unidentified Sydney street]
    50. Saint James Church, 1911 - Reproduced p.24 Bertie & Smith:' Old Sydney'
    51. [Landscape] 1938
    52a-b. City and Harbour looking East from Kyle House, Macquarie Place, 1932 - (2 prints) - Plate on p.7 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    53-54. [Landscape] 1938
    55. [Carthona, Double Bay]
    56. [Fig tree, Harbour front]
    57a-b. Point Piper from Darling Point - (2 prints) - Plate 30 in Nesta Griffith:' Point Piper Past & Present'
    58. [Shark Island from Point Piper ?] 1935
    59. Bee Hive Hotel, The Rocks, Argyle cut on right. - Plate on p.39 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'
    60. [Sydney Harbour]
    61. Garden Island & Potts Point, Macleay Street
    62. Rose Bay from Heights of Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill - Plate on p.9 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book'

    Negatives of other original works
    FM1/385 Harbour Bridge from Potts Point [Plate on p.36 Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book']
    FM1/383 Hyde Park Barracks through Gates of Saint James' Church Plate on title page Marjorie Barnard:' The Sydney Book']

    Family photographs, photographic portraits, photographs of associates
    63. Carte de visite photograph of S.U.S. as a child
    64. Carte de visite photograph of man (taken in Venice)
    65a-b. Sydney Ure Smith & family (2 prints)
    66. Sydney Ure Smith as a child, with brother & sister
    67. Sydney Ure Smith 1930. Portrait by H.C.Krutli (signed)
    68. Sydney Ure Smith and Lionel Lindsay at Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Worcestershire, 1933. Photographed by H.W. Barrett. - Negative at FM1/387
    69. Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens & Lionel Lindsay - Negative at FM1/389
    70. Sydney Ure Smith as a young man - Negative at FM1/392
    71. Sydney Ure Smith and ........... ? - Negative at FM1/388
    72a-b. Sydney Ure Smith with Louis McCubbin, Vic Mann, Will Ashton & James Macdonald - (2 prints) Negative at FM1/386
    73. Sydney Ure Smith - Negative at FM1/390
    74. Sydney Ure Smith and ............... ?
    75. Sydney Ure Smith
    76-80. Photograph of 'Sydney Ure Smith 1887-1949' Memorial Exhibition held at David Jones Galleries, 1950
    81. Sydney Ure Smith, Portrait probably by Monte Luke now filed at P1
    82. Sydney Ure Smith
    83. Stanley Ure Smith. 1918
    84. Sydney Ure Smith. Portrait by H.C. Krutli
    85. Sydney Ure Smith and 2 women at an Art Show
    86. Stanley Ure Smith, Sydney's brother
    87. Committee of Selection for the Exhibition of Australian Art at the Royal Academy: Sydney Ure Smith, Hans Heysen, Howard Ashton, John Longstaff. W.B.McInnes, George Bell
    88. Katherine Ure Smith (Sydney's mother)
    89. John Ure Smith (Sydney's father)

    Extra negatives
    FM1/391 Sydney Ure Smith

    Etchings
    90-92. Cuttings from various publications (including"The Daily Telegraph": The Bulletin"&"Steele Rudd's") of reproductions of etchings by Sydney Ure Smith, 1905, 1907 and no date
    93. Portrait of Sydney Ure Smith, by unknown artist
    94. Sydney Ure Smith - [Church seen through gate]
    95. Book Plate for Matthew Nathan
    96. Lionel Lindsay - [Beggar]
    97. Norman Lindsay - [Bacchanal]
    98. Elioth Gruner - [Landscape]
    99. Betty Dyson - Krishna & Radha
    100. Betty Dyson - Tandara Nrittya
    101. Betty Dyson - Kama Deva. 1st state
    102. John Shirlow - Saint Kilda 1918
    103. E.Warner - Sydney Medical School
    104. [Boats moored]
    105. [Boats beached]

    Sketches etc. by Sydney Ure Smith
    106. Page from diary dated 1902. Cuttings & sketch on one side
    107-108. Leaves from a diary dated 1897. Annotated cartoons
    109-113. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash
    114-130. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes)
    131-137. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash
    138-145. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes)
    146-147. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash
    148-149. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes)
    150-154. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash
    155-158. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes)
    159-167. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash
    168. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes)
    169-171. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash
    172-175. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash (Unfinished sketches of his views of Sydney and country landscapes)
    176-178. Miscellaneous sketches in various stage of completion - pencil, ink & wash
    179. Saint Luke's Anglican Church, Liverpool, New South Wales - Ink & wash
    180. Details of Sir Oswald Brierly's house, at East Boyd, Eden - Pencil annotated

    Miscellaneous
    181. Beggerstaff Brothers - Design for Poster. A printed reproduction
    182. Sydney Ure Smith: - Saint James Church, Queens' Square. Butlers' Stairs Leading from Potts to Woolloomoolloo. Proof of reproduction in Sydney Book
    183. Invitation to Exhibition of Drawings & Etchings at Macquarie Galleries 17 November 1926 with reproduction of etching"Cumberland Street Hostels"by Sydney Ure Smith
    184. Elaine Haxton - [Studies of cats] - Crayon sketch
    185. V.A.Q. (probably cf. postcards from contemporary students in Sydney Ure Smith Papers, v.1) - Decorated envelope
    186. Decorated postcards from contemporary student
    187. V.A.Q. - The Incense. Also, a figure study


    Contents list filed with collection
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Related Material
  • Description source

    Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
  • General note

    Keyword subjects:
    Ambleside (S.A.)
    Carthona (residence : Darling Point, N.S.W.)
    Dyson, Betty
    McCubbin, Louis
    MacDonald, James
    Mann, Gother Victor Fyers
    Smith, John
    Smith, Katherine
    Smith, Stanley
    Yaralla (residence : Concord, N.S.W.)
    No 81 Sydney Ure Smith, Portrait probably by Monte Luke now filed at P1
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