File 1: Drawings by Roderick Shaw, including for the ballet 'Flying Pieman', with photographs of Queen Elizabeth II unveiling plaque designed by Roderick Shaw

PXD 1593/nos. 1-27

file

1942-1983

Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Design Drawings, Photographs

9669191

21 drawings - watercolours - 31 cm x 38 cm or smaller
3 drawings - pen, pencil, ink - 24.5 cm x 34.5 cm or smaller
2 photographs - black and white

‘The Flying Pieman' ballet was created by Roderick Shaw (design and illustrations), Frances Shaw (storyline) and Nancy Salas (music). The ballet was an entry for a competition instigated by ballet impresario Wassily De Basil, who had brought the Ballet Russes to Australia (the competition was won by Donald Friend, for a ballet about Ned Kelly).

The ‘Flying Pieman’ story is a Sydney legend about William Francis King (1807-1873), a pie seller who became famous for feats of pedestrianism, such as beating the Sydney to Parramatta ferry on foot.

Reference
Library correspondence file

Item 1
Watercolours created for ‘The Flying Pieman, a Ballet Impression of Old Sydney’

Item 2
Pen and ink sketches, 1951-1952

Item 3
Exhibition design / layout by Roderick Shaw for an exhibition of Edwards & Shaw printing samples and the auction of books and poetry reading, held on the selling of their business, 1983.

Item 4
Photographs of Queen Elizabeth II unveiling plaque designed and created by Roderick Shaw, 6 March 1963

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Christine Shaw
Approval for reproduction required: from copyright holder
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Christine Shaw