Edwards and Shaw Pty. Ltd. collection of printing woodblocks and negatives, ca. 1940-1980

R 2067
FM2/2079

fonds

1940-1980

Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs

1024039

1 box (4 printing blocks) - wood - 10 x 10 x 2 cm and smaller
1 film strip (4 negatives) - black & white - film; 35 mm.

Barron Field (1786-1846), who arrived in Sydney in 1817, was judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature of New South Wales.

Outside his legal work Field had many interests. Before leaving England he had become known as a literary and theatrical critic. In 1819 he published in Sydney his First Fruits of Australian Poetry; these were the first verse compositions to appear in Australia in book form. Several critics have dismissed them as doggerel, others have enlarged on their merits. It has been claimed that Wordsworth and Coleridge were 'hugely taken' with 'Kangaroo'. (Source: ADB)

R2067
Printing blocks

a. Australian wildflowers.

b. Kangaroos and wildflowers.

c. Boat and bird.

d. Barron Field portrait. Block in shape of Australia. "Sideroxylon Pohlmannianum. Yellow Box", inscribed on verso.

FM2/2079
Negatives

3 negatives of a woman and 1 negative of the painting of Mona Lisa.

Forms part of MLMSS 4317.

Access via appointment - R 2067; FM2/2079

Copyright status:: In copyright - life of artist plus 70 years - R 2067
Copyright status:: In copyright - created after 1955 - FM2/2079
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

First fruits of Australian poetry / by Barron Field ; correctly reprinted from the rare first edition of 1819, with three poems included in the second edition 1823 ; where to is appended a review for Leigh Hunt's Examiner 1820, by Charles Lamb ; wood-engravings by Roderick Shaw ; edited with a preamble and notes by Richard Edwards. Sydney : Edwards & Shaw, 1941.

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