An alphabet, being a book of designs and rhymes by students of the Applied Art School, Working Men's College.

Primary Artist

M. Napier Waller (1893–1972)

Title

An alphabet, being a book of designs and rhymes by students of the Applied Art School, Working Men's College.

Physical description

a bound book of 65 pp., illustrated with 64 linocuts by various artists

Source

An alphabet: being a book of designs and rhythms, by students of the Applied Art School Working Men's College. Melbourne: Working Men's College, 1932.

Reference

Draffin (1977), not listed

Date made

1932

Place made

Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, RMIT View on map Close map

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Category

Illustrated book

Print type

relief

Technique

linocuts, printed in black ink, each from one block

Matrix size

28.2 x 22.6 cm (book (closed))

Support

paper

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

97125

Accession number

85.102

Accession method

Gift

Meeting

Meeting 6, 1984/85 (1985-02-12)

Provenance

Gift to the Australian National Gallery, from Gene Willsford, Canberra, 1985. [Willsford studied under Napier Waller at Melbourne Technical College, and looked after the Waller house at Fairy Hill when they travelled overseas in 1929-30 . She later became an architect]

Credit line

Gift of Gene M. Willsford 1985

Subject category

Australia, Book arts: Illustrated book

Country of context

Australia

Creators

Waller, M. Napier. | (1893–1972) Australian | Male | artist

Last Updated

07 Jan 2013