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Item 02: Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball with image key to personalities by Herbert W. E. Cotton, 1905

Item 02: Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball with image key to personalities by Herbert W. E. Cotton, 1905

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8R8ODn

Item 02: Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball with image key to personalities by Herbert W. E. Cotton, 1905

About this item

Full title

Item 02: Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball with image key to personalities by Herbert W. E. Cotton, 1905

Date

1905

Call Numbers

XV/133

Record Identifier

Yr8R8ODn

Reference Code

1063995

Formats

Physical Description

Contents

1 print - 75 x 58 cm - lithograph, unframed

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Item

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Scope and Contents

Contents

'The Ball of the Season' by H.W.E. Cotton, 1905. Black and white print with yellow background of a scene at Sydney Town Hall, including politicians, judges, newspaper editors, theatrical celebrities and artists in fancy dress. Governor Northcote and Nellie Melba were chief guests. Includes image key listing the 77 attendees.

Alternative Titles

Full title

Item 02: Lord Mayor's Fancy Dress Ball with image key to personalities by Herbert W. E. Cotton, 1905

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Pic.Acc. Upgrade Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5572 as part of the eRecords Project 2011-2012

Digital order no:Album ID : 1067669

Signature / Inscriptions

Print signed 'Cotton, Sydney '05' in bottom left-hand corner

Contextual Information

Source

Donated by Mrs Louise Wane, February 1984
Pic.Acc.5572

Administrative / Biographical history

Herbert Walter E. Cotton was a Federation era Sydney cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator. His first cartoons were published in the Bulletin in 1894, and from then on he concentrated on black-and-white work.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

XV/133

Record Identifier

Yr8R8ODn

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8R8ODn

Other Identifiers

Reference code

1063995

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