Odd bits done at odd times / by May Cecilia Gibbs [sketchbook, 1899-1904]
Odd bits done at odd times / by May Cecilia Gibbs [sketchbook, 1899-1904]
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Date
1899-1904
Call Numbers
PXD 738/96
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Formats
Pictures and Manuscripts
Physical Description
Contents
Albums - 1 sketchbook (109 pages comprising 41 pages of pen & ink - pen, ink and wash; pencil; watercolour sketches and mss) - 1 pressed leaf - 19 x 26 cm. : ;
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Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Various sketches and verse including: Life is ... 1899 (verse and drawings); "How they met" (a series of cartoons); Ginger for pluck (drawings and verse); Shopping; A baby wants the moon, 15 Apr 1901; Recollections of our nigger evening, 6 Apr 1903 and sketches drawn aboard ss Afric (31 Dec 1903 - Jan 1904)
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Full title
Odd bits done at odd times / by May Cecilia Gibbs [sketchbook, 1899-1904]
Notes
General note
For auld lang syne : an autograph album -- Cover title
"How they met" series and selection of sketches aboard ss Afric reproduced in: May Gibbs, mother of the gumnuts, her life and work / Maureen Walsh. North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1985. Vol.1 (pp.44 & 46)
Signature / Inscriptions
Titled and signed -- [p.1]
"To mother on her birthday, April 5th 1899" -- [p.1]
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 738/96
Record Identifier
1bGMdOlY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGMdOlY
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Reference code
152757
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