Illuminated address to Inez Bensusan / Thea Proctor, 1902
Illuminated address to Inez Bensusan / Thea Proctor, 1902
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Date
1902
Call Numbers
V/308
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1 illuminated address - 39.2 x 49.5 cm - watercolour and pencil on paper
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Copyright status : In copyright - Life of creator plus 70 years
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This illuminated address is painted in the Art Nouveau style using watercolours. The autographs included in the address include several young intellectual and artistic Australians in the early stages of their art, literature and theatre careers in Edwardian Sydney. Most notable in this list are Thea Proctor, Sydney Long, and Ethel Turner. Above eac...
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Full title
Illuminated address to Inez Bensusan / Thea Proctor, 1902
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Object History
Purchased by vendor at Dalia Stanley auctions
Contextual Information
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Purchased from Acanthe, 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Inez Bensusan (1871-1967) was a suffragette, actor, playwright, producer, and the daughter of a wealthy Sydney industrialist. Bensusan was a member of the Australian and New Zealand Women Voters and the Women Writers’ Suffrage League (formed 1908). In 1913 she was a founding executive member of the Jewish League for Women’s Suffrage. In addition to...
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Call Numbers
V/308
Record Identifier
nGmad83Y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nGmad83Y
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Reference code
1001095
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