Lambert, George Washington : drawings for The Bulletin, 1895-1897

PXD 439/nos. 8-26
Status: Unavailable. Applies to PXD 439/No 12

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1895-1897

Graphic Materials, Drawings

825833

19 drawings - various sizes - pen and ink, and wash

Contents:

No. 8 – My lady nicotine, ca 1897. Titled and signed Geo. W. Lambert. Undated. Illustration for the Bulletin, 4 Dec. 1897, p. 14. An illustration to Peter Airey’s poem which describes the attractions of nicotine as if it were a woman.

No. 9 – Before we got the deeds, 1895. Titled and signed G. Lambert, 95. Illustration for the Bulletin, 14 Dec. 1895, p. 23.

No. 10 – Terms, pay up at ontz, ca 1895. Titled and signed G. Lambert. Undated. Published as, ‘Hard times’ as an illustration for the Bulletin, 28 Sept. 1895, p. 13. Pasted on verson is caption: Dead-beat mashier ‘I see you give an extra pair of trousers free with each suit!’. Tailor ‘Yes, sir’. Dead-beat mashier ‘Well I think I’ll take the extra pair. It’s all I can afford at present’.

No. 11 - [Mixed company, ca 1898]. Untitled, signed Geo. W. Lambert, undated. Published as, ‘Out first ball’ as an illustration for the Bulletin, 5 Feb. 1898, p. 20. Published caption: ‘In a mixed company you can always tell a married couple, because the wife is sure to contradict the husband’. ‘Nonsense, William!’. ‘There you are!’

No. 12 – Missing

No. 13 – [Lady with tea cup and lady at piano, ca 1897]. Untitled, signed Geo. W. Lambert, undated. Published as, ‘The road to virtue’ as an illustration for the Bulletin, 15 Jan. 1898, p.11. Published caption: ‘They are going to send me up to a place in the bush. I’m afraid it will be so awfully lonely.’ ‘Never mind, dear; if you are awfully lonely you will be sure to be awfully good, and if you are awfully good you ought to be awfully happy’.

No. 14 – [Two men and billy tea], 1897. Untitled, signed Geo. W. Lambert, 97. Published as, ‘Sundowning on the speewah’ as an illustration for the Bulletin, 12 Feb. 1898, p.11. Published caption: ‘The brute only parted a bloomin’ pannikin o’dust’. ‘Well, what next! Do you want to be blanky well stall-fed?’

No. 15 – [Soiree, ca 1907]. Untitled, signed G.W. Lambert. Undated. Possibly first produced for the Bulletin, but published in the Lone Hand, 2 Sept, 1907, p.496. Published as ‘Complimentary’. ‘Book illustration’ written on verso.

No. 16 – [Two riders, ca 1898]. Untitled, signed Geo. W. Lambert. Undated. Published as, ‘The great sausage question – again’ as an illustration for the Bulletin, 30 July, 1898, p. 20. Published caption: ‘Have you any cancerous cattle on the run Mr. Gregory?’ ‘ Yes, Mr. Blowall’.’ Then, you should shoot them, Mr. Gregory’. ‘So we do, Mr. Blowall – as fast as we can eat them’.

No. 17 – Loving and leaving, ca 1899. Titled, signed Geo. W.L., undated. Published in the Bulletin, 29 July, 1899, p.10. Has poem inscribed on verso, followed by ‘A.C. McCay, Grammar School, Castlemaine, Vic’.

No. 18 – The Bur-r-r-rd (Paddy O’Sullivan), 1895. Untitled, signed G. Lambert, 95. Illustration for the Bulletin, 14 Sept. 1895, p.16. Published caption: ‘The amu, said Paddy O’Sullivan, of the River, is the foinest thing to keep a yard clean. He tackles ould boots, bottles, tins or fencing-wire. The big fellow up here cleared off with me frying-pan. It took him three days to digest, but he’s back again and has got his eye on me billy’.

No. 19 – [Hurry up, Lola, ca 1897]. Untitled, signed Geo. W. Lambert. Undated. Published as, ‘The chivalrous male’ as an illustration for the Bulletin, 27 Nov. 1897, p.11. Captioned underneath drawing, ‘ Urry up, Liza ‘ow you women do drag!’

No. 20 – [Man with cigarette at bar] ca 1895. Untitled, signed G. Lambert, 95. Published as, ‘Across the bar’, as an illustration for the Bulletin, 22 Feb. 1896, p. 16.

No. 21 – Clinched, ca 1896. Titled, signed G. Lambert. Undated. Illustration for the Bulletin, 12 Dec. 1896, p.17.

No. 22 – [Tell me Jack, ca 1895]. Untitled, signed G. Lambert. Undated. Published as, ‘Maiden innocence’, as an illustration for the Bulletin, 21 Sept. 1895, p. 16. Published caption, ‘Tell me, jack, do they weigh the horses first, or the jockeys, or both together!’ Inscription written on verso.

No. 23 – [The difference, ca 1898]. Untitled, signed, Geo. W. Lambert. Undated. Illustration for the Bulletin, 7 May 1898, p.11. Published caption: ‘Can you – aw – weemembah?’. ‘Yes; I recollect lending you half-a-sovereign last Tatt’s meeting, but I don’t remember you paying me back’. Further manuscript notes on verso.

No. 24 – A stage-aside, for the Bulletin, ca 1897. Titled, signed Geo.W. Lambert. Undated. Illustration for the Bulletin, 22 Jan. 1898, p.10. On verso of image is a poem written by Breaker [Harry Harbourd Morant].

No. 25 – [Johnny-come-lately, ca 1897]. Untitled, unsigned, undated. Published as, ‘The spread of education’, as an illustration for the Bulletin, 3 July, 1897, p. 11. Published caption: ‘Say, deah boy, what is that cow licking?’. ‘Rock-salt, sir’. ‘Weally! I often wondered how they made corned-beef!’ Manuscript notes on verso.

No. 26 – [Two men in front of a house, ca 1898]. Untitled, unsigned, undated. Image has been dated on style.

Bulletin Drawings Guide, Special Collections, Mitchell Library. -

George W. Lambert retrospective : heroes & icons / Anne Gray.¶George Lambert 1873-1930 catalogue raisonne by Anne Gray, 1996.¶The Bulletin.

Some images are signed, titled and dated.