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152757

Title
Odd bits done at odd times / by May Cecilia Gibbs [sketchbook, 1899-1904]
Call number
PXD 738/96
Level of description
series
Date

1899-1904
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
152757
Physical Description
Albums - 1 sketchbook (109 pages comprising 41 pages of pen & ink - pen, ink and wash; pencil; watercolour sketches and mss) - 1 pressed leaf - 19 x 26 cm. : ;
Scope and Content
Various sketches and verse including: Life is ... 1899 (verse and drawings); "How they met" (a series of cartoons); Ginger for pluck (drawings and verse); Shopping; A baby wants the moon, 15 Apr 1901; Recollections of our nigger evening, 6 Apr 1903 and sketches drawn aboard ss Afric (31 Dec 1903 - Jan 1904)
Copying Conditions
Copyright status:: In copyright - Life of artist plus 70 years
General note

For auld lang syne : an autograph album -- Cover title
"How they met" series and selection of sketches aboard ss Afric reproduced in: May Gibbs, mother of the gumnuts, her life and work / Maureen Walsh. North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1985. Vol.1 (pp.44 & 46)
Signatures / Inscriptions

Titled and signed -- [p.1]
"To mother on her birthday, April 5th 1899" -- [p.1]
Name
Afric (ship)
Topic
cartoons
portraits
sketchbooks

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