Spencer & Gillen

A journey through Aboriginal Australia

Pencil drawing from the Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer papers.

Primary Comments

Title [Pencil & watercolour drawings from the Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer papers] Level of Description Collection Date of Work ca. 1880-1929 Type of Material Graphic Materials Call Number Pic.Acc.979 Physical Description Drawings : 4 watercolours + 15 pencil drawings ; 25.5 x 36.5 cm. or smaller Contents Contains drawings from Sir Baldwin Spencer's expeditions to the Northern Territory. Includes sketches of outback stations (e.g. old Macumba Station), camps, Aboriginal people and ceremonies. Also contains watercolour drawings of a Great White Bat (Macroderma gigas) and Aboriginal shields from the Australian Museum. Source Presented 1951 General Note Nos.1-16 have been reproduced in: 'Wanderings in wild Australia' / Sir Baldwin Spencer. Macmillan : London, 1928. Location number: ML 983.8/50A1-2 (2 volumes) Mitchell Library. Transferred from the Mitchell Library Manuscripts Section (Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer papers, 1880-1929): MLMSS 29. Digital order no. Album ID : 823503

Rights: State Library of New South Wales

Document Details

Date Made
Circa ca. 1880-1929
Creator

Document Details

Number of Pages
1
Number of Sheets
1

Institution

Institution
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Registration
PXA 128311