Gilbert P. Whitley photographs, print and printing block, 1781-1947

P2/528
R 1122
PXA 1484

fonds

1781-1947

Graphic Materials, Prints, Objects, Photographs

909352

34 photographs - 11 x 15 cm or smaller
1 print - engraving: - 41 x 30 cm
1 printing block - 11 x 10 cm

Gilbert P. Whitley, 1903-1975?, ichthyologist, was on the staff of the Australian Museum, Sydney, from 1922.
Johann Reinhold Forster was botanist on Captain James Cook's second voyage, 1772-1775.
John MacGillivray was naturalist on two survey voyages around the Australian coast and New Guinea, firstly on HMS Fly under Captain Francis Blackwood, 1842-1846, and then on HMS Rattlesnake under Captain Owen Stanley, 1846-1850.

Johann Reinhold Forster, drawn by Antoine Graff, engraved by Johann Friedrich Bause, 1781 (P2 / 528)
Printing block depicting John MacGillivray, undated (R 1122)
Photographs of shark fishing in Western Australia, 1944-47 (PXA 1484)

Forms part of Gilbert P. Whitley papers at MLMSS 3069

Out of copyright: Photographs created before 1955
Out of copyright: Prints - creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.3692 as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

I.R. Forster / Ant. Graff pinx.; I.F. Bause sculps., Lips, 1781