BC143
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[The Taumaru Trifler Drawings]
A set of five drawings reproduced in two issues of The Taumaru Trifler (Lowry Bay, Wellington, New Zealand). The Taumaru Trifler, no. 4, September 1918 and The Taumaru Trifler, no. 5, Third Anniversary, March 1919. The drawings feature portrait sketches of staff and convalescing soldiers.
Page 1: The Taumaru Trifler, no. 4, September 1918, cover, soldier on crutches, nurse in background
Page 2: The Taumaru Trifler, no. 4, September 1918, pg 17, nurse, “Miss D. Rathbone, V.A.D.”
Page 3: The Taumaru Trifler, no. 4, September 1918, pg 20, chauffeur, “Miss Ewen, Chauffeur”
Page 4: The Taumaru Trifler, no. 5 March 1919, cover, five portraits of soldiers, three portraits of nurses
Page 5: The Taumaru Trifler, no. 5 March 1919, pg 5, matron, “Mrs. Rolleston”
Page 1 Cover UR printed The Taumaru Trifler
Page 1 Cover LR printed Written at the Taumaru Military Convalescent hospital Lowry Bay, September, 1918. Price 1/-
Page 2 LR ink Flora Scales 1918 (F reversed)
Page 2 lower centre printed Miss D. Rathbone, V.A.D.
Page 3 LR ink F. Scales 1918
Page 3 lower centre printed Miss Ewen, Chauffeur
Page 4 upper printed The Taumaru Trifler, Third Anniversary – March, 1919. No.5
Page 4 LR ink F Scales (F reversed)
Page 4 lower printed Written at Taumaru Military Hospital, Lowry Bay.
Page 5 lower centre ink (in artist’s hand) Mrs Rolleston
Page 5 lower centre printed Mrs. I. B. Rolleston, O.B.E.
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A set of five drawings reproduced in two issues of The Taumaru Trifler (Lowry Bay, Wellington, New Zealand), no. 4, September 1918 and no. 5, Third Anniversary, March 1919. The location of the original drawings is unknown.
Dimensions given relate to the size of The Taumaru Trifler and not the original drawings.
Bound issues of The Taumaru Trifler, No. 1, March 1917 - No. 5, March 1919, were published by Ferguson & Osborn Ltd., Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1917-1919. This copy of the bound volume was donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Reference no. MS-2120) by Helen Stewart, artist, who lived in Eastern Bays of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 18 October 1978.
In the years 1917-1919 Flora Scales worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.) at the Taumaru Military Convalescent Hospital, Lowry Bay, Lower Hutt, New Zealand. The Hospital was established in the house, Taumaru, among the beautiful gardens, belonging to Francis Henry Dillon Bell who, in 1916, had offered his property to the New Zealand Government as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers.
The cross-hatching used so effectively here to model and suggest light and shade is also seen in the elaborate drawing In the Blacksmith’s Shop [BC131]. The technique is also used with great skill in the etching The Homecoming [BC124].
