Tiles from The Sun Newspapers Limited Building, Sydney, [1929?]
Tiles from The Sun Newspapers Limited Building, Sydney, [1929?]
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Date
[1929?]
Call Numbers
R 2206
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Physical Description
Contents
5 tiles
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Contents
These tiles were designed by Donald Sackville Bain, Head of the Art Department of Sun newspapers. Each tile comprised three parts. Five sections survive - one complete image and two tiles of a second image. The image depicts Phoebus Apollo's driving a seven-horse chariot out of the rising sun. (1) The emblem SN Ltd (Sun Newspapers Limited appea...
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Full title
Tiles from The Sun Newspapers Limited Building, Sydney, [1929?]
Notes
Date note
The tiles are undated. Date based on the year the Sun building was completed
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Administrative / Biographical history
The artist was Donald Sackville Bain, the Sun newspapers Head of the Art Department in the Sun building in the 1920s and 1930s. He designed the newspaper’s beautiful logo laid in the tiles floors and the glass lead lighting of the opulently designed Art Deco building near Martin Place at 60-70 Elizabeth Street that, in its time, dominated the citys...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
R 2206
Record Identifier
n88Xvavn
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n88Xvavn
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Reference code
9604094
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