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C1938
The Heart of Sydney in the Year 1938
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Scarce aerial view of Sydney by Robert Emerson Curtis, taken from above Sydney Harbour Bridge looking south with he majority of buildings with banners identifying them. Supplement to the Home. 1st March, 1938. Collections: National Library Australia: Bib ID 3796575 … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Heart of Sydney in the Year 1938
Date:
C1938
Mapmaker:
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued. Laid on archival linen.
Technique:
Lithograph printed in colour.
Image Size:
590mm
x 473mm
Paper Size:
632mm
x 510mm
AUTHENTICITY
Guaranteed Vintage Item
dated:
1938
Description:
Scarce aerial view of Sydney by Robert Emerson Curtis, taken from above Sydney Harbour Bridge looking south with he majority of buildings with banners identifying them.
Supplement to the Home. 1st March, 1938.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3796575
State Library NSW: Call Numbers POSTERS 2433
Robert Emerson Curtis (1898 - 1996)
Curtis was a painter, illustrator and cartoonist, born in Croydon, England, on 4 October 1898, educated in Chile (1909-12) and at Farnham Grammar School, England (1912-14). His family came to Australia in 1914 and he worked on their farm in Queensland until 1919. He he moved to Brisbane where his first job was as an illustrator with a Brisbane department store. In 1922 Curtis sailed to the USA with his friend, the pioneer filmmaker, Charles Chauvel. There he studied at the Art Institutes of San Francisco and Chicago and undertook industrial commissions as a freelance commercial artist. While in Chicago, Curtis worked as an architectural draftsman for the town planner of San Francisco Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912), after the great fire of 1871 led to intense skyscraper rebuilding in the ’80s and ’90s. Curtis returned to Sydney in 1928 and began recording the erection of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and produced a series of lithographs.
