• Title
  Cecil Hartt drawings and medals
• Creator
  Cecil L. (Cecil Lawrence) Hartt, 1884-1930
• Call number
  PXA 7763 R 2437
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1915-1928
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Medals, Photographs
• Reference code
  9680011
• Physical Description
  9 drawings - 31 x 51 cm and smaller
  5 medals - 600 x 500 mm and smaller
  1 photographic print - 18 x 13 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Cecil Hartt, born Cyril Lawrence Hartt on 16 July 1884 in Melbourne, Victoria, was an Australian cartoonist and caricaturist. Following the publication of one of his cartoons in the Bulletin in 1909, he moved to Sydney and worked as a freelance artist for various publications including Comments, Clarion and Australian Worker. In July of that year, he married Ruby Adelaide Manners (1888-1941), with whom he had one son. In 1915, at the outbreak of World War 1, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force but was seriously injured and sent to England to convalesce. Whilst there, his cartoons appeared in numerous British newspapers, and he published a booklet of Digger jokes entitled Humorosities which went on to be a bestseller. He returned to Australia in 1919 and began work as the first artist for Smith's Weekly, establishing the Digger page which would continue for the full lifespan of the publication. In 1923, he remarried to Iris Katherine Winifred Heighway Brewer (1897-1986) and in 1924, he was the first president of the Australian Black and White Artists' Club, which later became the Australian Cartoonists' Association. He died on 21 May 1930 near Moruya, New South Wales.
  
  Source:
  Design & Art Australia Online. "Cecil Lawrence Hartt". Accessed 8 April 2024. https://www.daao.org.au/bio/cecil-lawrence-hartt/biography/
• Collection history
  By descent from Diana Cecily Debring who was the daughter of Cecil Hartt and Iris 'Buddy' Hartt, nee Brewer
• Scope and Content
  8 pencil and ink cartoons by Cecil Hartt for Smith's Weekly, The Bulletin, the Daily Guardian and possibly other publications. 1 pencil portrait of Hartt by Frank Dunne. Colleagues identified in cartoons inscribed on verso or from supplementary information include Chas Hallett; George Finey; George Little; Stan Cross; Billy Hughes; Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm.
  
  4 military medals for Cecil Hartt's active service during World War I, dated between 1915 and 1919. 1 medal "Presented to Mr. Cecil L. Hartt by the Art & Literary Staffs of 'S.W.' [Smith's Weekly], Oct. 27th 1923".
  
  1 photographic print of Cecil Hartt. 1 business card "Cecil L. Hartt ; 'Smith's Weekly' & 'Daily Guardian', Phillip Street, Sydney".
• System of arrangement
  Drawings numbering devised by cataloguer based on size.
• Language
  English
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to R 2437
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  6 drawings signed "Cecil L. Hartt". One signed "C.L.H." Portrait of Hartt signed "Frank Dunne".
• Date note
  
  Date range taken from engravings on medals and information in Library acquisition file.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Dunne, Frank, approximately 1897-1937
  
• Subject
  Caricatures and cartoons--Australia.
  World War, 1914-1918--Medals.
  Kingsford-Smith, Charles, Sir, 1897-1935.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Century of Satire
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21117998

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