Percy Tanner collection of caricatures and sketches, ca. 1870
Percy Tanner collection of caricatures and sketches, ca. 1870
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1870
Call Numbers
PXA 1277
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
13 drawings (7 sheets) - 25.3 x 20.5 cm or smaller - pencil, pen, ink
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
The sketches include caricatures of Rev. Dr Lang; Gus Wangenheim; George Lewis; a prospective sketch [annotated that this was possibly the last sketch done by P. Tanner before he was drowned on the Maria]; sketch of two horse and carts; Beaumont, coal mining engineer for A. A. Co [Australian Agricultural Company].; King, the flying Pieman; Visions...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Percy Tanner collection of caricatures and sketches, ca. 1870
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Some sketches are titled, some have artist's monogram of an interlocking P and T
Description source
Compiled from the Manuscripts A file as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Contextual Information
Source
Transferred from At 49, January 2011
Administrative / Biographical history
Percy Tanner, caricaturist and reporter for Sydney Morning Herald, drowned after the wreck of the Maria in February 1872
References:
ML catalogue card
Cumbrae-Stewart, F. W. S. (Francis William Sutton), 1865-1938. First attempts at settlement in New Guinea. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland (1917) vol. 1 no. 3:...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1277
Record Identifier
YEGmZ2Vn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YEGmZ2Vn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
914299
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