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Series 13 - Drawings and Watercolours
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Date Range16 December 1921 - 6 April 1972
Quantity40 cm, 18 files of drawings
ProvenanceFrank Macfarlane Burnet
Description

316 pen and ink drawings, watercolour sketches, sketchbooks, pencil sketches, poems. Includes files from the 'Elizabeth Dexter Collection'.

Inventory Listing

13-1 Watercolour and pen and ink sketches

Pen and ink drawings: Untitled - Scarab beetles, no date, 1920?; "Night" (photocopy only), 9 June 1925; Watercolour sketches: "Townsville", 29 January 1925; "Gulf of Suez - morning", 19 November 1925; Untitled - gum trees, 7 January 1935

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 192? - 7 January 1935    Quantity 6 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/001 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-2 Sketchbook - watercolour and pencil sketches

Bound sketchbook signed "F.M. Burnet, Reservoir Rd, Traralgon". Watercolours and pencil sketches, mostly landscapes of areas around Healesville, Launching Place, Pakenham, Cockatoo, La Trobe Flats, Tyers Hills, Traralgon and surrounds, Frankston and new westward from Melbourne Hospital

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 16 December 1921 - 10 August 1922    Quantity 41 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/002 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-3 Pen and ink sketches

Beauty, 30 May 1923 Untitled - with poem caption, 18 May 1923

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range May 1923    Quantity 2 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/003 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-4 Sketchbook pages - pencil and watercolour sketches

Loose sketchbook pages of Scotland, England, Switzerland and Australia. Includes watercolours of Traralgon district, sketches from cycle tour of Switzerland (1926), English and Scottish countryside, including two sketches of "Langholm" (Scottish home of the Burnets) with note to Linda?, December 1926

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 1925 - 28 December 1926, Easter 1925 - 28 December 1926    Quantity 13 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/004 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-5 Sketchbook pages - pencil and watercolour sketches

Loose sketchbook pages, mostly pencil sketches. Europe, Australia and wildlife. Includes landscape and scenery from Switzerland, Germany? and Italy, megaliths in England and the following: "(View) from lab window", London, 12 June 1926 Untitled - Koalas (two pages) Phillip Island, 11 October 1934 Untitled - penguins (two pages), December 1934

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 11 August 1925 - 3 December 1935    Quantity 29 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/005 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-6 Sketchbook - pencil and watercolour sketches

Bound sketchbook signed "F.M. Burnet, Wiltshire, April 1927". Pencil sketches and one watercolour of British countryside, featuring Segsbury, Avebury, Stonehenge and other megaliths, Salisbury, Winchester, Capetown, Yorkshire and others

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 13 April 1927 - 6 August 1933    Quantity 23 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/006 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-7 Sketch of Linda Burnet - pencil drawing, 31 March 1934
Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 31 March 1934    Quantity 1 drawing
Inventory Identifier 13/007 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-8 Sketchbook - pencil sketches from life drawing classes (taken between 1934 and 1936?)

Bound sketchbook signed by F.M. Burnet, no date, Includes nude studies, portraits, character studies and cell drawings (epidermal cells?)

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 1934? - 1936?, No date.    Quantity 80 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/008 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-9 Sketchbook - pencil sketches from life drawing classes (taken between 1934 and 1936?)

Bound sketchbook. Mostly nude studies and some dancers

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 1934? - 1936?, No date.    Quantity 60 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/009 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-10 Sketchbook - pencil sketches from life drawing classes (taken between 1934 and 1936?)

Bound sketchbook signed "F.M. Burnet 10 Belmont Ave E4". Includes additional page inserts. Mostly nude and character studies

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 1934? - 1936?    Quantity 34 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/010 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-11 Sketchbook - pencil sketches

Bound sketchbook. Birds, monoliths and scenery from trip to Buffalo (1941) and scenes from holiday in Anglesea (1946)

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 24 November 1941 - 14 January 1946    Quantity 5 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/011 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-12 Sketchbook - watercolour and pencil sketches

Spiral-bound sketchbook with two extracted pages. Native flora and scenery at Bogong High Plains and Murray River (1948), fauna, landscapes (1951). Watercolour studies (1957?) and still life (1959)

 Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 15 January 1948 - 29 August 1959    Quantity 16 drawings
Inventory Identifier 13/012 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-13 Pencil sketch - "White Everlasting (daisy)", Buffalo 6 April 1972
Creator Elizabeth A. Dexter
Date range 6 April 1972    Quantity 1 drawing
Inventory Identifier 13/013 Box Number 56 Series 13
13-14 Pencil drawing - nude study of woman 22 March 1933
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 22 March 1933    Quantity 1 drawing
Inventory Identifier 13/014 Box Number O/S Series 13
13-15 Pencil drawing - nude study of man 29 November 1933
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 29 November 1933    Quantity 1 drawing
Inventory Identifier 13/015 Box Number O/S Series 13
13-16 Pencil drawing - nude study of woman (signed)

Possibly of Linda Burnet

 Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1933?, No date, mid 1933?    Quantity 1 drawing
Inventory Identifier 13/016 Box Number O/S Series 13
13-17 Pencil drawing - nude study of man 1 March 1933
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 1 March 1933    Quantity 1 drawing
Inventory Identifier 13/017 Box Number O/S Series 13
13-18 Pencil drawing - nude study of woman 18 October 1933
Creator Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Date range 18 October 1933    Quantity 1 drawing
Inventory Identifier 13/018 Box Number O/S Series 13
Published by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre on AustehcWeb, November, 2001
With support from The Jack Brockhoff Foundation, The E.B. Myer Charitable Fund and The University of Melbourne
Listed by Gavan McCarthy, Oscar Manhal, Lisa O'Sullivan and Rachel Tropea with Tim Sherratt
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