Series 01: Norman Lindsay juvenilia : sketchbooks and drawings, ca. 1893-1903

PXA 656/vols. 1-9

series

ca. 1893-1903

Graphic Materials, Drawings

17010

4 sketchbooks (ca. 241 drawings) - 30 x 24.5 cm. - enclosed in brown leather slip cases with gold lettering
3 sketchbooks (ca. 94 drawings) - 14 x 21 cm.-25.2 x 20.2 cm.
32 drawings - originally interleaved in 2 sketchbooks

VOLUME 1
ca. 1895-1897
Includes: a bookplate by N.L. "Keith Wingrove, Ex Libris." Portraits of art student Bertie Black, Hughie McLean, Perce, Florre (student days friend), Alex Sass and scenes from Creswick

VOLUME 2
ca. 1894-1895
Inside cover signed "N. Lindsay Dec/94"
Includes: portraits of Mary, Perce, Reginald, Dr Wilson, Ruby, Dr Robert Charles, Dr R. C. L. and a self portrait. Also The Church of England, Creswick and illustrations for - The Three Musketeers, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry IV Part I (Falstaff), Sir Roger de Coverley, Don Quixote and Gil Blee

VOLUME 3
ca. 1896-1897
Includes: portraits of Leon Pole and Ernest Moffat, and Ivanhoe [train station]

VOLUME 4
ca. 1903
"Norman Lindsay" on inside cover
Includes: Creswick sketch, portraits of self & Ray Parkinson, Moffat, Davi Dow, Milley Hoyle and Peter Felex, prizefighter. Also a drawing by Ray Parkinson

VOLUME 5
1893-1895
Titled "Norman Lindsay original drawings 1893-1894 Juvenilia")
Includes: a Greek soldier, Norman Lindsay as watchman. Ruff Tremearne as executioner in `Faust' at Creswick Town Hall, illustrations to `Micah Clark' and `Silver Canyon', Sir Gervas Jerome, Decimus Sason, Reuben Lockarby, Porthos Three Musketeers and illustrations to Kipling stories

VOLUME 6
ca. 1894-1900
Includes: Petronius drawings, `The Flesh & the devil' by Papurge?, Boadicea, a sketch of Norman and a mock up certificate Grammar School Sports presented to H. Parkin - Second best athlete in the school Easter 1896 Creswick

VOLUME 7
ca. 1896-1899
Includes: portraits of Percy Lindsay and Abel Tasman

VOLUME 8
Includes: medieval costumes & artefacts and a church interior

VOLUME 9
ca. 1895-1898
Includes: Correspondence to Keith, rural scenes, sheep, cows, dogs and the Chinese camp

Most of the drawings are initialled, signed and dated
Some of the drawings are titled