Original artwork for the artists' book "The Vast Silence" based on the diary entries of Ludwig Leich...
Original artwork for the artists' book "The Vast Silence" based on the diary entries of Ludwig Leichhardt, 2012 / by Sigrid Noack
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
2012
Call Numbers
PXE 1755
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Language
- German
- English
Formats
Pictures, Drawings and Manuscripts
Physical Description
Contents
1 volume in box (24 drawings and 36 pages of text) - 29.5 x 34.5 cm - colour, acrylic and casein
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
Please acknowledge : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
This is the original artists’ proof for "The Vast Silence" by German artist and author Sigrid Noack on the diary entries of notable German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt thus providing a contemporary visual interpretation of his journals that document the overland expedition from Moreton Bay in Queensland to Port Essington in the Northern Territory dur...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Original artwork for the artists' book "The Vast Silence" based on the diary entries of Ludwig Leichhardt, 2012 / by Sigrid Noack
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Most drawings are signed and dated: S. Noack, 2012.
Artists' book is signed: Sigrid Noack, 2012 on back page of acknowledgements.
Published information
Journal of an overland-expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 / by Dr. Ludwid Leichhardt. Müchen, Germany : Königlich Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1848.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Sigrid Noack, January 2019
Administrative / Biographical history
Sigrid Noack was born in Guben, Germany in 1947. It was created in 2012 after Noack was commissioned to mark the bicentenary year of Leichhardt’s arrival in Sydney on 14 February 1842. It is an interpretive work, based on Leichhardt’s diaries. The text in the book is presented in the original German with English parallel text, acknowledging both No...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
PXE 1755
Record Identifier
nQReJ8x1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQReJ8x1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
9623539
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