University Of Sydney Architecture Students’ Drawings
1922-1947. Collection of 54 architectural drawings and one dyeline print, most in pencil, some in ink, some with wash or added watercolour, most captioned, signed and dated in pencil or ink, sizes range from 37.4 x 55.8cm to 58 x 79cm. Some stained with missing portions or tears to edges, most with pinholes to corners and slight soiling. Provenance: estate of artist Dora Toovey, wife of James R. Jackson, a well-known Australian artist. The subjects of the drawings, produced by 17 students, include: Berrima Courthouse [NSW]; Burdekin House, Sydney; Homestead ‘Brislington’, Parramatta, NSW; Homestead ‘Glenalvon’, Campbelltown, NSW; Homestead ‘Horsley’, Smithfield, NSW; Hyde Park Barracks [Sydney]; Lansdowne Bridge, Prospect Creek, NSW; St John’s Church, Parramatta; St John’s, Camden, NSW; St Thomas’s Church of England, Port Macquarie and Union Club, Sydney. The collection includes two overseas images: S.M. Della Pace, Rome, The Cloisters [Italy] and St James’s Church, Shere, Surry [UK]. It also contains drawings of decorative motifs and ornament designs. One of the students, whose work is represented in this collection, Morton E. Herman, became a notable historian and writer on colonial architecture. Ref: Johnson, Australian Architecture 1901-51: Sources of Modernism, 2002. A detailed list is available on request.
Item #CL205-33
Price (AUD): $29,500.00 other currencies