SERIES 02: Illustrations for Tarella Quin's "Chimney Town", ca 1934 / drawn by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

PXA 2143

series

ca 1934

Graphic Materials, Drawings

1000200

18 drawings - 22.8 x 17 cm or smaller - watercolour on card, and ink on card

A collection of 18 original illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite from a volume of 4 stories collectively titled "Chimney Town" and written by Australian author Tarella Quin (Mrs Daskein). These illustrations for "Chimney Town", the first story in the collected volume of the same name, is complete, and includes the original design for the title page as well as an exquisite watercolour reproduced as the frontispiece.

Caption titles
1. Mrs Leaf-cutting Wasp is with us now - p8 Chimney Town [reproduced as frontispiece]
2. Chimney Town by Tarella Quin Daskein author of Gum Tree Brownie, Before the Lamps are lit, etc. Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite [reproduced as title page]
3. The ... Curtains were set a-sail - Chimney Town p2
4. Countless thousands of them - Chimney Town p2
5. Trying to wheel a threepence - p4 Chimney Town
6. Never a drop for the Little People! - Chimney Town
7. The usual bridal dress of our town - p6 Chimney Town
8. That is very beautiful said the little boy - p10 Chimney Town
9. Winkle and Feathers walked along the street - p9 Chimney Town. [with alternate partial design by Outhwaite laid over the lower section and affixed on the edges by removable paper tape. The original design was published].
10. The speaker was standing on a button mushroom - p12 Chimney Town
11. Once he got out - p13 Chimney Town
12. Picking an choosing their ... socks - p14 Chimney Town
13. In a vanity shop - p15 Chimney Town
14. Rushed muttering into the street - p15 Chimney Town
15. The kite rose into the sky - p18 Chimney Town
16. The naughty bonnets and feathers - p22 Chimney Town
17. Winkle was crying - p26 Chimney Town
18. I'll spread out my white wings and sail home to thee - p26 Chimney Town

Copyright status:: In copyright
Research & study copies allowed:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Titles from artist's captions on drawings.

Some images have the initials of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite "I.R.O."
Each image is captioned by Outhwaite, which weren't always the same as what was published.
Some illustrations have pencil notations for publication layout.

Undated, date based on publication date of book in 1934.