Gaye has sussed out my penchant for ratting through tatty old sheet music in search of suitable pieces to cannibalise for my mixed media efforts, and now she puts likely candidates aside for me. If they are particularly ratty and incomplete ... an odd page here or there ... they cost me the grand sum of 20c or so.
but today was the prize!
There was a small pile of early 2oth century sheet music waiting for me
all clearly of no use to anyone else so I got the lot for 50 cents
and look what I found
an incomplete copy of what is fairly obviously an aussie children's songbook. There's no cover or title page but a wee bit of internet sleuthing has confirmed that what I have is
Annie and Ida Rentoul's More Australian Songs for Young and Old [1913] with Ida's delicate, whimsical black and white illustrations.
You'll really want to click to enlarge these so that you can see the fine detail:
the little koala in the bottom right corner of this one
the possum outside the window in this
The more pedestrian stuff can be hacked up and recycled as art butall that remains of this wee book is going to be preserved [ and because most of it's already come apart into single sheets, these are so going to be framed! ]
12 comments:
Love it of course! Are you able to scan the music?
I could definitely do that if you're interested Maz - do you mean scan and send to you ? or scan and post on the blog ?
Fantastic drawings. Makes one want to go and live in the time they were drawn.......for a little while anyway.
What a find!
What a lovely find, I never have much luck in opshops for anything, must always be the wrong day.
Hi again, no scan and hold them for me please, thanks!.....I am ~really~ hoping that we get to see you soon!!!
Oh how lucky were you, I love these pictures and I think they fell into the hands of a wonderful lady....they are exactly where they are suppose to be, enjoy.
Have a great day.....:-) Hugs
Pretty lovely.........I am sure I have some of Ida's work somewhere. Probably in the chn's lit. collection but have this vague feeling I might have an old diary.
Hope someone sends these to an Op shop one day and not to a skip......but reckon the skip will win.
Those are beautiful things. Glad they fell into your hands.
All I can say is
"WHAT A FIND!"
How lovely. You were in the right place at the right time.
Oh, wow! That is quite a find, some lovely examples of children's book illustration. I'm envious.
Wow! A treasure indeed.
Post a Comment