Pencil sketches of a Boeing 707 flight deck, Melbourne Airport, and people and places in Sydney, Por...
Pencil sketches of a Boeing 707 flight deck, Melbourne Airport, and people and places in Sydney, Port Kembla, the Snowy Mountains, and Brisbane, September 1959 / drawn by Juliet Pannett
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Date
September 1959
Call Numbers
PXA 1288
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Copyright status : In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years.
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A series of 15 pencil drawings of people and places made during a visit to Australia by the artist in September 1959:
1. Flight Deck, Boeing 707. Qantas. 11th September, 1.30 pm
2. Parliament House, Sydney. 14th September
3. Whale Beach. 14th September
4. Port Kembla. N.S.W. 16th September
5. 18th September. Adaminaby Dam....
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Full title
Pencil sketches of a Boeing 707 flight deck, Melbourne Airport, and people and places in Sydney, Port Kembla, the Snowy Mountains, and Brisbane, September 1959 / drawn by Juliet Pannett
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Two drawings "From the Circular Quay, Sydney. 22nd Sep." and "View from Pylon, Sydney Bridge. Site for new Opera House in foreground. 22nd September" (Leonard Joel, Art & Books, Double Bay, Sydney, 27 March 2011, Lot 250) not acquired by Mitchell Library. Photocopies of Lot 250 filed with drawings
Signature / Inscriptions
Item nos. 5-7, 9, and 11 signed 'Juliet Pannett' in pencil at lower right.
Item no. 8 inscribed in pencil verso 'View from Eucumbene Lookout. Eucumbine [i.e. Eucumbene] Lake River & Dam'
Date note
Dates taken from drawings.
Item nos. 1-4 and nos. 10-14 stamped '24 Oct 1959' and 'ILN' inscribed in ink on back of original mounts.
Item nos. 6-9 stamped '30 Apr 1960' and inscribed 'p743' (no. 9), 'p744' (nos. 5), or 'p745' (nos. 7-8) in ink on back of original mounts
Description source
Titles taken from drawings
Published information
Item nos. 1-4 and 10-15 published in "The Illustrated London News", 24 October 1959, pp. 510-513. Item nos. 5-8 published in "The Illustrated London News", 30 April 1960, pp. 744-745¶¶Reference:¶The Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003. http://gdc.gale.com/ (accessed 19 April 2011...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Leonard Joel, Art & Books, Double Bay, Sydney, 27 March 2011, Lots 125-126, 249, and 285-286
Administrative / Biographical history
Juliet Kathleen Pannett, nee Somers (1911-2005), an artist, portraitist and teacher, was born in Hove, Sussex, in 1911. After studying at the Brighton School of Art she began, at age 18, producing drawings of characters for local newspapers and magazines. During the 1950s Pannett became a familiar figure sketching musicians at the Albert Hall, Fe...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXA 1288
Record Identifier
n5lVvE79
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lVvE79
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Reference code
922932
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