Images of Henry Lawson

  Print of a woodcut of Henry Lawson by Sir Lionel Lindsay, no date. (15.5 x 24 cm)

The note in pencil underneath the woodcut reads:

"Lionel Lindsay.
To my friend Harry Chaplin.
Lawson's sister said this was very like Lawson. I cut it on American (false) box."

Lawson Collection (Lawson 181)

  Portrait in pastel of Henry Lawson by Sir Lionel Lindsay, circa 1910-11. (26.5 x 34 cm)

Lindsay Collection (Lawson 179)

  Autograph note by Sir Lionel Lindsay accompanying the portrait above, no date.

It reads:

"Dear Harry,
Florence Rodway started the Pastel era, and I bought a fine box of French pastels. I decided to try a portrait of Lawson, always a willing sitter, and as I had a room at the Bulletin I got him to sit for a couple of drawings, used one of them as a base for colour and this is the pastel you possess. Done about 1910-11. Lawson often came to town in cold weather in a sweater.
Ever yours,
Lionel Lindsay."

Lawson Collection (Lawson 179)

  Photograph of Henry Lawson taken in 1902.

Lawson Collection (Lawson 185)

   Photograph of Henry Lawson. The inscription reads:

"To My Friend,
Dear Little Mrs Fisher
from Her's truly,
Henry Lawson. Syd. 28/9/11."

Lawson Collection (Lawson 171)

  Photographs of J.F. Archibald (left), editor of the Bulletin, and Henry Lawson (right), taken in 1919.

Archibald accepted Lawson's first poem, "A Song of the Republic" for the Bulletin and was a lifelong friend and supporter of Lawson. Archibald died in 1919.

Lawson Collection (Lawson 58)

  Photograph of Henry Lawson outside his cottage at Leeton, no date.

Friends arranged for Lawson to be placed on a two acre farm in the Yanco Irrigation Area, Leeton (a prohibition area) in January 1916 after a relapse of drinking and depression in 1915. He left Leeton in November 1917.

Lawson Collection (Lawson 25)

  Pencil drawing of Henry Lawson by Hal Gye, no date.

Lawson Collection (Lawson 70)

  Pencil drawing of Henry Lawson by Hal Gye, no date.

Hal Gye (1888 - 1967) was an artist, poet and short story writer. He worked as an illustrator for the Bulletin and Angus and Robertson. Gye drew the illustrations for C.J. Dennis's The Sentimental Bloke.

Lawson Collection (Lawson 25)