Cartoons and illustrations by John Walsh, ca.1919-1953
Cartoons and illustrations by John Walsh, ca.1919-1953
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Date
ca.1919-1953
Call Numbers
PXD 1099
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Physical Description
Contents
2 paintings - 24 x 23 cm. and 37 x 25.5 cm. - oil on canvas
2 photographs - silver gelatin
0.01 cm. of clippings and ephemera (1 folder)
37 drawings - approx. 62 x 47 cm or smaller - pencil, ink, and gouache
1 design drawing - 145 x 56 cm. - ink
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Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1. Bookplate. Portrait of a kneeling woman. Ink. Unsigned and undated
2-3. Two unidentified oil portraits on canvas
Political cartoons
4. Not in the text book [cartoon - Hitler, Mussolini & the African Campaign]. Unsigned & undated
5. So far so good [cartoon - Hirohito dominant over Mussolini & Hitler]. Unsigned & undated. Penci...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Cartoons and illustrations by John Walsh, ca.1919-1953
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.1702 as part of the eRecords project 2011-2012
Two albums of cuttings of John Walsh's work, received from the estate of the late Vera Walsh in January 1993, are at MLMSS 5687.
Attributions / Conjectures
One of the oil portraits at nos.2-3 may be an unfinished self-portrait which is referred to in the Associate Mitchell Librarian's notes of her visit to Miss Walsh to view the collection in September 1969. The same notes state that Walsh's studios were are Reiby Place, then Dalley St., and that Walsh designed windows for Rodosky [i.e. Radecki?] & Co...
Description source
Contents list is an amended version of a list prepared by Mitchell Library in 1976.
Object History
Miss Vera Walsh contacted the Mitchell Library in June 1969 shortly after the death of her brother, black & white artist John Walsh. She donated the material catalogued at PXD 1099 in September 1969, and offered the Library two further scrapbook volumes of cuttings of John Walsh's published work; these were received from the executor of Miss Walsh'...
Contextual Information
Source
Donated by Miss Vera Walsh, September 1969
Pic.Acc.1702
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 1099
Record Identifier
16AJOamn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJOamn
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Reference code
913950
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