Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla
Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
approximately 1860-1901
Call Numbers
PXA 364
Record Identifier
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Formats
Physical Description
Contents
9 drawings - 20.0 x 31.5 cm or smaller - pen and ink
7 drawings - 20.0 x 31.5 cm or smaller - pencil
2 photographs - albumen photoprints
0.01 metres of textual materials - 33.0 x 20.3 cm or smaller - 1 fascicle with 11 pages of newscuttings & 10 pages of manuscript
1object - disbound library boards, and original covers of sketchbook
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised : Drawings 1-17
Microfilm : CY 1049, frames 313-353. Copy of original volume including manuscript pages and clippings
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Library cover (bound 1918) for original sketchbook which is inscribed inside front cover "Mary (probably) Gatliff. Coburg November 9th 1886"
fascicle containing newspaper and magazine clippings about Tommy McRae : a letter from K. Lanlogh Parker (Catherine Eliza Somerville Stow) to Mr A. G. Stephens, undated, about McRae : a letter from Bertram...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla
Variant title
Nos. 1-9,12-17 titles designated by cataloguer.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
1. pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.8 cm
2. pen & ink, 23.3 x 34.0 cm
3. pen & ink, 23.4 x 33.5 cm
4. pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.5 cm
5. pen & ink, 23.4 x 33.6 cm
6. illegible inscription at lower centre; pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.8 cm
7. illegible inscription at lower centre; pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.5 cm
8. pen & ink, 23.3 x 33.6 cm
9. albumen pho...
Signature / Inscriptions
Many of McRae's drawings have faint, now illegible, pencil inscriptions on the reverse, at lower right.
Date note
Collection dated by earliest known drawings by McRae and his death date : 3 of Mickey of Ulladulla's drawings are dated 1875: see also Andrew Sayers "Australian aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century", 1994.
Conservation note
Album was disbound in 1993
Contextual Information
Source
Tommy McRae drawings purchased from Mr H. E. Gatliff, 11 March 1913.
Source of Mickey of Ulladulla drawings unknown.
9. Given by P. Chauncy by Mrs G. H. Poole
Transferred from Manuscripts collection, A 364
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 364
Record Identifier
YEG73QNn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEG73QNn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
69964
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