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Checklist
The following is a checklist of items used on this site, listed by section. All of the items are from the collections of the State Library of Victoria.
Biographical Sketch
The images of Eric Thake in this section are reproduced from the Eric Thake Scrapbook, Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 9826.
Marjorie Rankin. Portrait of Eric Thake
pencil, 27.8 x 21.6 cm
c1930
Photographer unknown. Thake as war artist, drawing in an aeroplane
photograph, gelatin silver
6.0 x 8.5 cm
1945
David Corke. Thake sketching in street
photograph, gelatin silver
24.5 x 17.6 cm
1959
Photographer unknown. Thake in profile silhouette, bending forward
(Model for the Christmas card Epstein, Einstein?)
photograph, gelatin silver
17.2 x 9.8 cm
1962
Ron Meers. Thake looking in dress shop window
photograph, gelatin silver
15.5 x 14.0 cm
1964
Aborigines
Meanjin Cover Illustrations
Reproduced from the Eric Thake Scrapbook, Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 9826.
[Grinning man]
Meanjin 1950, no.2
21.4 x 14.0 cm
[Child eating witchetty grub]
Meanjin 1950, no.4
21.4 x 14.0 cm
The Inhabitants of this Country
The Inhabitants of this country
Linocut, 18.6 x 13.5 cm (image)
1953
H 89.42
Pictures Collection
Museum of Victoria Panels
Photographer unknown (probably Eric Thake). Reproduced from the Eric Thake Scrapbook. Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 9826.
[Boy holding a spear]
photograph: gelatin silver
24.8 x 7.0 cm
c1957
'Decorative Art'
photograph: gelatin silver
19.3 x 17.5 cm
c1957
'Bark Paintings'
photograph: gelatin silver
17.8 x 19.4 cm
c1957
'Games'
photograph: gelatin silver
16.0 x 18.0 cm
c1957
[Mummified figure]
photograph: gelatin silver
24.4 x 15.5 cm
c1957
Springtime in the Rockies
[Drawing of busking aborigine]
pen and ink, 12.0 x 17.0 (approximate)
c1960
In Thake's untitled manuscript memoir, p. 97
Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 9826.
Art of the Book
Bookplates
All bookplates are from the Pictures Collection.
1927
Roy Russell [Sailing ship]
metalcut, 6.0 x 5.0 cm
H 2002.101/1
1928
B. R. Richardson [View of Pyramid Hill]
metalcut, 8.2 x 7.5 cm
H 2002.101/24
1929
Eric Thake ['Books and Boomerangs']
metalcut, 11.5 x 4.8 cm
H 2002.101/22
Lucy McCowan Russell [Theatre curtain]
metalcut, 8.1 x 6.5 cm
H 2002.101/21
Eric Johnston [Cocoanut palm]
woodcut, 7.0 x 4.2 cm
H 2002.101/16
1930
B. R. Richardson [Albatross]
linocut, 8.3 x 7.7 cm
H 2002.101/13
Jean Daley [Orator]
metalcut, 9.4 x 5.5 cm
H 2002.101/28
1931
Eric Thake [EAT]
woodcut, 7.2 x 4.9 cm
H 2002.101/15
Mabel G. Flanley [Aboriginal warriors]
woodcut, 10.2 x 7.2 cm
H 2002.101/19
Clive Stephen [Palette and caduceus]
woodcut, 8.3 x 6.6 cm
H 2002.101/18
1932
Charles Bennett [Scottish terriers and caduceus]
woodcut, 7.8 x 7.0 cm
H 2002.101/20
V. S. Hewett [Type slug]
woodcut, 8.5 x 6.5 cm
H 2002.101/14
P. Neville Barnett [Sower of bookplates]
woodcut, 8.5 x 6.0 cm
H 2002.101/26
E. L. Thompson [Mermaid]
woodcut, 7.5 x 5.1 cm
H 2002.101/27
1933
T. R. Campbell [Thistle and barley]
linocut, 7.0 x 4.8 cm
H 2002.101/17
H. B. Muir [Chained Pegasus]
woodcut, 6.2 x 5.2 cm
H 2002.101/10
William Morrow [Papyrus plant]
process, 6.5 x 5.2 cm
H 91.251/1
1934
Dorothy Dennett [Flock of birds]
woodcut, 6.6 x 5.8 cm
H 2002.101/2
Alison Uther Boyes [Welsh dragon]
process, 6.2 x 6.2 cm
H 2002.101/1
1935
George Godwin [Plimsoll Line]
woodcut, 3.8 x 6.2 cm
H 2002.101/6
1936
G. F. Taylor [Ballerina]
woodcut, 6.6 x 5.3 cm
H 2002.101/8
1942
Alexander Robert Turnbull [Medieval Monk]
woodcut, 6.7 x 5.2 cm
H2002.101/7
1943
H. B. Muir [Captain Bligh]
woodcut, 8.5 x 5.1 cm
H 2002.101/11
John Gartner [Bower bird]
woodcut, 7.7 x 6.8 cm
H 2002.101/9
Sydney Hagley [Pinned butterfly-books]
metalcut, 7.0 x 7.4 cm
H 2002.101/23
1971
Richard Annois [Pediment and columns]
process offset, 8.5 x 7.1 cm
H 2002.101/12
Pollie Pyke [Mountaintop llama]
process offset, 8.2 x 4.5 cm
H 91.251/3
Guelda Pyke [Fish and dragonfly]
process offset, 10.2 x 8.1 cm
H 91.251/6
Ted Mayman [Pub window]
process offset, 7.8 x 6.2 cm
H 91.251/4
1980
Prof. Bernard Smith [Black swan]
process offset, 13.4 x 7.0 cm
H 91.251/5
Moby Dick Illustrations
Linocut originals, reproduced here from their first publication in Desiderata: A Guide to Good Books (Adelaide: Preece), YA 805 D46.
The Flukes
published image: 12.6 x 10.5 cm
Desiderata no. 21, 1 August 1934
There She Blows
published image: 9.6 x 10.5 cm
Desiderata no. 22, 1 November 1934
The Bird of Heaven
published image: 12.4 x 10.6 cm
Desiderata no. 23, 1 February 1935
The Coffin Life-uoy
published image: 9.4 x 10.5 cm
Desiderata no. 24, 1 May 1935
Arquebus Cover
Adrian Lawlor (1889-1969)
Arquebus
Melbourne: Ruskin Press, 1937
(cover design by Eric Thake)
22.2 x 14.7 cm
Rare Books Collection. *LT 704 L42
Central Australia
All images are from the Pictures Collection.
"Australian Summer-time": Noel Learmonth of Portland …Taken at Curtin Springs - Aussie Andrews' station …
Photograph, gelatin silver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35834
Link to catalogue record >
[Sign for] POST, TELEGRAPH & Money Order Office. Gaffney's Creek
Photograph, gelatin silver
6.1 x 8.5 cm
H81.53/2
Link to catalogue record >
Angus Downs Station on the trip to Ayers Rock [Uluru]
Photograph, gelatin silver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H39497
Link to catalogue record >
The kangaroo tail on the north-west corner of the Rock [Uluru] ...
Photograph, gelatin silver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35839
Link to catalogue record >
The "Five Kneeling Pink Elephants"of Ernest Giles - The Eastern or inside of Olga's Western face - Southern End
Photograph, gelatin silver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35845
Link to catalogue record >
The Eastern or inside of Olga's Western Face - The "Five Kneeling Pink Elephants" of Ernest Giles
Photograph, gelatin silver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35846
Link to catalogue record >
Under-cut wall at Maggies Spring said to be cut by wind erosion, Ayers Rock [Uluru]
Photograph, gelatin silver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35854
Link to catalogue record >
[Valley] …a few miles N.E.(?) of Alice Springs
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35872
Link to catalogue record >
Mulla Mulla, these flowers were fairly abundant on the Rocky feet of Olga
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/14
Link to catalogue record >
Weather Eroded Caves - Ayers Rock [Uluru]
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35858
Link to catalogue record >
Mala Cave, Ayers Rock [Uluru]
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/2
Corkwood, Palm Creek.
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/16
Link to catalogue record >
Dry salt-pan at Eastern end of Lake Amadeus
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/17
Link to catalogue record >
Bower of Western Bower Bird - Finke River near Hermannsburg
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/20
Link to catalogue record >
Brick-red sand, Desert Oak, Henbury Stn
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/6
Link to catalogue record >
One of the rocky pinnacles of the Amphitheatre near Palm Valley.
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35863
Link to catalogue record >
Western face of Olga - Southern End
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35871
Link to catalogue record >
Grooves on the S.E. face of Ayers Rock [Uluru]
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35857
Link to catalogue record >
Hot windy day - North Face Ayers Rock [Uluru]
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/8
Link to catalogue record >
A grove of young desert oaks… on the way to the Rock [Uluru]
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35875
Link to catalogue record >
Flowers on the Red Sand hills
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35879/7
Link to catalogue record >
Sheet-iron sheep dogs. Wilpena - Blinman Rod. Sth. Aust.
Photograph, gelatin sliver
20.1 x 25.1 cm
H35873
Link to catalogue record >
Christmas Cards
All images are from the Pictures Collection.
"Desiderata"or "That hollow log at Alice Springs", 1948
Linocut, 14.7 x 18.4 cm
H 91.275/1
The Adoration of the Magi, 1949
Linocut, 18.3 x 14.5 cm
H 91.275/2
Self-portrait among the ant-hills, 1950
Linocut, 18.6 x 14.6 cm
H 91.275/3
The plume hunter (also 'The tuft hunter'), 1951
Linocut, 20.8 x 14.6 cm
H 91.277/1
The rock and the flies, 1952
Linocut, 19.6 x 14.2 cm
H 91.277/2
"The inhabitants of this country-", 1953
Linocut, 18.6 x 13.5 cm (image)
H 89.42
The wrong horse, 1955
Linocut, 14.6 x 19.4 cm
H 91.277/3
Ecstasy, 1956
Linocut, 21.3 x 13.3 cm
H 91.277/4
"Mr. PICASSO! Gentlemen, you won't find him here", 1956
Linocut, 21.4 x 14.4 cm
H 91.277/5
Comparisons, 1957
Linocut, 20.3 x 14.6 cm
H 91.277/6
Horsham sale yards: "She's a beautiful pig boys, all meat and no pertatoes!", 1960
Linocut, 20.4 x 14.7 cm
H 91.275/4
Christmas greetings from Thake's Flat, 1961
Linocut, 14.7 x 21.6 cm
H 91.278/1
In the Melbourne Gallery: "Epstein, Einstein? I can never remember!", 1962
Linocut, 22.3 x 14.7 cm
H 91.275/5
"In the nude! Oh, Mr. Thake", 1963
Linocut, 21.0 x 14.0 cm
H 91.278/2
Sunshine and Rain, Lygon Street, 1964
Linocut, 19.4 x 14.4 cm
H 91.278/3
Figure in a rocky landscape, 1965
Linocut, 14.8 x 21.2 cm
H 91.276/1
"She's warm alright", 1966
Linocut, 19.8 x 14.6 cm
H 91.276/2
Desert Island, 1967
Linocut, 14.0 x 19.5 cm
H 91.278/5
"Where's all your 30,000 Jim?", "Well, you remember those chops we had last night!", 1968
Linocut, 20.6 x 14.6 cm
H 91.278/6
Nuns on the Geelong Road - Oil Sheiks to Bahrain? 1969
Linocut, 14.6 x 20.7 cm
H 89.37
Heels and Heeler, Charleville, 1971
Linocut, 21.0 x 14.2 cm
H 97.106/2
An Opera House in every home, 1972
Linocut, 21.2 x 14.6 cm
H 97.106/3
Roadside Bunyip, 1973
Linocut, 22.0 x 13.0 cm
H 97.106/4
Hippobottomi, 1974
Linocut, 14.8 x 22.3 cm
H 91.247
A message from Our Sponsor, 1975
Linocut, 21.5 x 14.2 cm
H 97.106
Alberto's elephants and Newcastles's "pokies" wave goodbye to 1976, 1976
Linocut, 21.5 xc 28.2 cm
H97.106/7
TV Camel of Lake Rudolph, 1977
Linocut, 21.5 x 28.2 cm
H97.106/8
Melbourne Memories
ICI House Mural
Reproduced from the Eric Thake Scrapbook, Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 9826.
David Corke
[View of the Boardroom, ICI House, with Eric Thake working on the mural]
photograph, gelatin silver
14.2 x 21.3 cm
1959
David Corke
[Eric Thake on a stepladder, painting the mural]
photograph, gelatin silver
11.2 x 12.5 cm
1959
The following item is held in the Pictures Collection.
De Gruchy & Leigh lithographers
Isometrical plan of Mlebourne & Suburbs, 1866
Print, lithograph with hand colouring
58.4 x 92.5 cm
H291
Goodbye Melbourne Town
Goodbye Melbourne Town is an album of photographs and reminiscences compiled by Eric Thake. A selection of images and text from this album are reproduced on this website. Goodbye Melbourne Town is held in the Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 8817.
Eric Thake
…rubbish bin cupboards
photograph, gelatin silver
19.0 x 20.3 cm
[1960]
Eric Thake
Caretaker's quarters and 'Way Down', S.W. corner
photograph, gelatin silver
19.4 x 20.5 cm
[1960]
Eric Thake
The old clock…the new sign
photograph, gelatin silver
19.0 x 14.5 cm
[1960]
Eric Thake
Broken skylights
photograph, gelatin silver
17.8 x 18.0 cm
[1960]
Eric Thake
The last day…1st May 1960
photograph, gelatin silver
18.5 x 17.0 cm
[1960]
David Corke
Looking North along "F Avenue"
photograph, gelatin silver
19.4 x 18.9 cm
[1960]
David Corke
One of the many empty stalls
photograph, gelatin silver
18.7 x 19.0 cm
[1960]
David Corke
Entrance at the S. E. corner
photograph, gelatin silver
19.3 x 18.0 cm
Memory Map
From Eric Thake's untitled manuscript memoir, pp.63-64
Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 9826.
pen and ink
22.6 x 35.4 cm
c1960
War Artist
Three sketchbooks. Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 9826.
No. 1
Melbourne to Townsville, 1944
Pen and ink
Page size 13.7 x 18.5 cm
No. 2
Townsville to Melbourne via Morotai, 1944-45
Pen and ink
Page size 15.2 x 25.0 cm
No. 3
Melbourne to Koepang via Darwin, 1945
Pen and ink
Page size 15.2 x 25.0 cm
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