Series 1: Casts of navigators and explorers and Aboriginal Australians on bronze entrance doors of t...
Series 1: Casts of navigators and explorers and Aboriginal Australians on bronze entrance doors of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunderlich Ltd., from sculptures by Arthur Fleischmann and Ralph T. Walker
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[ca. 1940]
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Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 343
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 604
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Sub-series 1:
Casts of navigators and explorers and Aboriginal Australians on bronze entrance doors of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunderlich Ltd., from sculptures by Arthur Fleischmann
Sub-series 2:
Cast of The guardian of the emu totem, Central Australia, for bronze entrance door of the Mitchell Library, ca. 19...
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Series 1: Casts of navigators and explorers and Aboriginal Australians on bronze entrance doors of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunderlich Ltd., from sculptures by Arthur Fleischmann and Ralph T. Walker
Notes
General note
Plaster patterns for these portraits, originally held by Wunderlich Ltd. who cast the bronze doors, are now held in the Mitchell Library. For location see list at PXn 343.
Conservation note
Many of the casts are damaged and pieces of plaster have broken off
Description source
Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
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Administrative / Biographical history
Arthur Fleischmann was born in Bratislava in 1896, but lived most of his life in London. He studied medicine in Budapest and Prague and qualified as a medical doctor. Immediately after qualifying, he turned his attention and energy on sculpture and was awarded a scholarship to the Master School of Sculpture, Vienna.
He arrived in Sydney in 1...
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Y0Kx7Gm1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0Kx7Gm1
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9627901
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