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

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 page ‘Squire Morgan’.

The “Pina”-manual : dyestuffs and materials for use in photography (Hoechst am Main : Farbwerke Vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning, n.d.). Unsigned.

Large greeting card (230 x 280 mm) promoting the firm of Bacon & Co., Pitt Street, Sydney, with mounted colour photograph by Squire Morgan; undated (but ca. 1960).