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ETCHING: 'THE MODERN SCHOOL PERTH', AUSTIN H. PLATT

1936
Overview

Image: Sepia etching of Perth Modern School from the north-east corner.

Signature: Bottom left '39.145 The Modern School Perth, Austin H. Platt'.

Frame: Fine black lacquered frame with glass and mount.

Reverse: Sticker 'Mona Lisa Art Gallery - Picture framing, designing, oil paintings, watercolours, reproductions'.

Historical information

Austin Platt was born in Perth in 1912 and was educated in New Zealand and Sydney, Australia.

By World War II he had completed about 100 plates in a specialisation that particularly focused on school buildings. After the war he continued producing etchings and over his lifetime created an historic record of school buildings of the 1930s and 1940s, many of which have been subsequently demolished.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-43-1987.100
Item type
Material
Width
290 mm
Height or length
392 mm
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Inscriptions and markings

Austin H. Platt

Contextual Information

Austin Platt was born in Perth in 1912 and educated in New Zealand and later in Sydney. By World War II, he had completed approximately 100 etching plates, particularly focusing on school buildings. After the war he continued producing etchings and over his lifetime created an historic record of school buildings of the 1930s and 1940s, many of which were subsequently demolished.

Place made
Western Australia
Year
1936
Statement of significance

A record of Perth Modern School in the 1930's, and part of a larger collection of Platt's etchings of Australian school buildings.

Aesthetic: Historic: Scientific: Social: Condition: Interpretive: Provenance: Representativeness:

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