Full title: Sketches of Melbourne, 1879 to 1888 / by Charles S. Bennett

Author/creator: Bennett, Charles, 1861-1930.

Date: 1879-1888.

Call Numbers: DL PX 50

Record Identifier: 1wN2WZjn

Language:

Formats: Pictures, Drawings

Contents: 64 drawings - pen and ink, 31 with watercolour added

Publishers:

Notes: Half-bound in green crushed morocco. Title from spine. Two typed contents lists, one prepared by Sir William Dixson and the other in the Dixson Library, are roughly attached at the beginning of volume. On verso of front endpaper Sir William Dixson has written in ink 'These pictures were obtained in one lot in 1903. The artist had had a dispute with the Authorities of the Melbourne Public Library who refused to purchase the pictures when they were offered. The artist then sent them to Sydney & I purchased them. [Signed] W. D. The artist died about 1930.' Also loose in this volume was a Christmas card with a reproduction of one of Bennett's watercolours on it. Now placed at PD 370.

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MMS ID: 110349479