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Plaster copy of Winged victory of Samothrace

Plaster copy of Daphne Mayo's copy of the Winged victory of Samothrace that she created while studying at Brisbane's Central Technical College. The college had a plaster cast that she used as a model. It won her the inaugural (1914) Queensland Wattle Day Leagues travelling art scholarship training in Europe. One wing has fallen off. It does not have a plinth.

Photograph album of construction of Brisbane City Hall

Each photograph has a handwritten caption giving the date. First photograph shows initial stages of construction (February 1925). Final photograph shows completed building (April 1930). Inside cover page contains handwritten inscription : B. Mobsby, 8.11.30, Station Rd., Indooroopilly, Queensland.

Mobsby, Berta (Nelly Alberta Timewell), 1885-1967

Notebook with expenses and notes

Foolscap book (cover missing) with dates from 30 Jun 1976 to 20 Mar 1977. Includes diary style notes on financial activities, property work done and work to be done, dividends received in 1976 and 1977, cheques for sale of furniture.

Model of Little Blackie

Fibreglass model, painted green with some gold. The Little Blackie sculpture depicts the smaller than life-sized head of an Aboriginal baby. One of the most reproduced of all Daphne Mayo's works. One bronze head was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) from the Three Sculptors Exhibition in Sydney in 1946. Daphne Mayo would not assigned copyright to the the AGNSW.

Minute book for Advisory Art Committee

Minutes of meetings of the Advisory Art Committee of the Queensland National Art Gallery from 20 Mar 1931 to 4 May 1937. 93 pages of the 256 have handwritten minutes. Pasted onto pages 257-258 is a typescript copy of 'Rules and regulations for the Guidance of the Advisory Art Committee'

Queensland Art Gallery

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