Squire Morgan, Sydney printmaker, painter and photographer: a small archive of ephemera, including proof etchings, printing blocks, original photographs, and books from his studio.

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Group of approximately 85 gelatin silver print photographs, 1940s-1960s; various dimensions up to 250 x 300 mm; mainly comprising Squire Morgan s photographic reproductions of his own artworks, some mounted on card by the artist (frequent duplication), but also including outdoor scenes later used in artworks, and a significant portrait study of the artist at work in his studio, examining an etching. Etching. [Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne]. 55 x 75 mm (plate), 115 x 150 mm (sheet); signed by the artist lower right and annotated lower left 1st Proof ; undated (but ca. 1960?). Note: accompanied by a further 12 (twelve) proofs of the same etching (all unsigned). Etching. [Sydney Opera House. The artist s impression of the completed building]. 55 x 75 mm (plate), 115 x 150 mm (sheet); unsigned; undated (but ca. 1970?). Copper-plated printing block for a relief etch print with Christmas card design. 100 x 80 x 20 mm; unsigned; undated (but ca. 1960?) Copper-plated printing block for an etching of a car sale yard. 100 x 80 x 20 mm; unsigned; undated (but ca. 1970) Pencil sketch of a rickety jetty (preparatory study). 150 x 200 mm; unsigned; undated (but ca.1960?) H. Mills Cartwright, Notes on the Rotary Photogravure Process (London : The Autotype Company, n.d.); signed and dated on the title page Squire Morgan 10/9/37 H. Mills Cartwright, Notes on the Rotary Photogravure Process (London : The Autotype Company, n.d., but an earlier edition than the above); signed on the title

• Binding: Hardcover

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