• Title
  Item 01: Book jacket design for Patrick White's novel Voss, 1957 / drawn by Sidney Nolan
• Call number
  ML 743
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  29 August 1957
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  455770
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - ink, wash, wax crayon, pen and ink on card - 8.9 x 13.9 cm (sight) in frame 27.2 x 27.2 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  In 1957, Patrick White invited artist Sidney Nolan to design a book jacket for White's novel Voss based around the doomed explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. In response, Nolan sent this preliminary sketch from England on a postcard to White in Sydney.
  The design was modified and used as the book jacket for Voss, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957.
• Scope and Content
  29 August 1957; Inscribed in ink, in Nolan's hand, on verso: `This is a rough note for Voss cover. Thrilled with the book. Look forward to meeting. S.'
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of Artist plus 70 years.
  Copyright holder:: The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust
  Approval for reproduction required:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust
• General note
  
  Original Sidney Nolan artworks reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the Sir Sidney Nolan Trust.
  Exhibited, Mitchell Library 19/10/90 - 21/11/90
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823595
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (January - March 2007)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1150282

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