Original etchings chiefly of old buildings mainly in and around Sydney, 1914-1926 / by Sydney Ure Smith

fonds

1914-1926

Graphic Materials, Prints

906396

143 prints - etchings
textual material (2 items)

Sydney George Ure Smith (1887-1949), publisher and artist, studied art at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School. He later became interested in etching and under the guidance of Miss Eirene Mort developed considerable skill in the technique.

References:
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed January, 2011)
Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. http://www.daao.org.au/main (accessed January, 2011)
The etchings of Sydney Ure Smith : [introduction by Bertram Stevens]. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1921.

This collection of etchings by Sydney Ure Smith comprises 135 prints, arranged into 19 sets, chiefly of old buildings mainly in and around Sydney between 1914-1926. According to the entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Ure Smith's "... choice of subject-matter was partly an attempt to foster conservation of Australia's colonial heritage."

DL Pd 400/Item a
Letter from Sydney Ure Smith to William Dixson, 7 January 1916 concerning his "sets" of etchings. Letter includes a sketch of the artist at his desk with accompanying illustrated advertising envelope for "Smith & Julius illustrators ... Pitt St., Sydney"

Set No. 01
Original etchings, 1914-1915 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 02
Original etchings, 1914-1915 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 03
Original etchings, 1914-1915 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 04
Original etchings, 1914-1916 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 05
Original etchings, 1914-1916 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 06
Original etchings, 1914-1917 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 07
Original etchings, 1914-1918 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 08
Original etchings, 1914-1919 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 09
Original etchings, 1919 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 10
Original etchings, 1914-1919 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 11
Original etchings, 1920 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 12
Original etchings, 1921 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 13
Original etchings, 1921-1922 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 14
Original etchings, 1922 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 15
Original etchings, 1922 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 16
Original etchings, 1923 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 17
Original etchings, 1924 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 18
Original etching, 1926 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 19
Original etchings, 1926 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Set No. 20
Original etchings, 1928 / by Sydney Ure Smith

Proofs

Unidentified Set No
Wooloomooloo [i.e. Woolloomooloo, 1919] / Sydney Ure Smith

Transferred from Spencer List number: 1P.
Catalogued and indexed separately at DL Pd 400-517; DL Pe 146-164.

Letter from Sydney Ure Smith to William Dixson, 7 January 1916, transferred from DL MSV file, 15 June 2012