BC108
Untitled
[Fremantle sketchbook]
Top spiral-bound grey covered sketchbook branded Spiroflex, No 121, 48 spirals, 9 leaves, containing drawings of:
- Sketches of life at sea, between Fremantle, Australia and New Zealand
- Brentwood Avenue, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
- Lake Rotoiti, Rotorua, New Zealand
- Arum lilies
- Rainbows
Front cover UL (in artist's hand) H. Scales
Front cover UR (in artist's hand) H Scales Purchased in Fremantle, May, 1977
Front cover UR label Shepherd's 75c
Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by H. F. V. Scales, 1979
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
Includes drawings done while Flora Scale's was a passenger on-board the SS Shota Rostaveli on her trip back to New Zealand from France in 1977.
When the SS Shota Rustaveli docked in Piraeus, Greece, Scales's niece, Diana Zaharopoulos (nee Westacott, later Mills), collected her and took her home to her flat in Athens for the night. Correspondence Diana Mills to B. de Lange, 02.11.1983, “Although Aunt Lass [Flora] seemed a little older, she still seemed the old Aunt Lass, upright and full of courage.”
This was to be the last journey Scales made between Europe and New Zealand.