Original watercolour drawings, tracings and layout overlays for the publication The Australian Bird...
Original watercolour drawings, tracings and layout overlays for the publication The Australian Bird Guide, ca 2007-2016 / by Jeff Davies, Kim Franklin and Peter Marsack
About this item
Full title
Date
ca 2007-2016
Call Numbers
PXD 1481/Boxes 01-26 , PXD 1481/Folders 01-29
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
254 drawings - watercolour
254 drawings - pencil
5700 drawings - pencil and some pen
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Arrangement
Collection has been arranged in the order of The Australian Bird Guide which was organised into 3 main groups of Marine and coastal birds; Freshwater birds; and, Land birds.
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
Research & study copies allowed
Approval for publication required : From copyright holder
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Jeff Davies, Kim Franklin or Peter Marsack
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
254 watercolour plates, either on heavy watercolour paper or cold pressed watercolour board by artists Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack and Kim Franklin. Together with 254 original drawings of individual images on tracing paper that were overlayed during preparation of plate layout, and approximately 5700 layout overlays on tracing paper used to place th...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Original watercolour drawings, tracings and layout overlays for the publication The Australian Bird Guide, ca 2007-2016 / by Jeff Davies, Kim Franklin and Peter Marsack
Notes
Published information
The Australian bird guide / Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack, Kim Franklin. Clayton South, VIC: CSIRO Publishing, 2017. Held at State Reference Library call number G 2017/2312.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Andrew Isles Natural History Books, June 2017
Administrative / Biographical history
These original artworks were produced by three artists: Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack and Kim Franklin for the publication, "The Australian bird guide", published by the CSIRO in 2017.
Jeff Davies was born in 1957 in Victoria. His father was a member of the Bird Observers Club and both his parents were artists. His early observations of birds l...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXD 1481/Boxes 01-26 , PXD 1481/Folders 01-29
Record Identifier
9qoa5mJ1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoa5mJ1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1009049
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