University of Melbourne Issue 6, June 2010 COLLECTIONS University of Melbourne Collections Issue 6, June 2010 University of Melbourne Collections succeeds University of Melbourne Library Journal, published from 1993 to December 2005. University of Melbourne Collections is produced by the Cultural Collections Group and the Publications Team, University of Melbourne Library. Editor: Dr Belinda Nemec Assistant editor: Stephanie Jaehrling Design concept: 3 Deep Design Design implementation: Jacqueline Barnett Advisory committee: Shane Cahill, Dr Alison Inglis, Robyn Krause-Hale, Jock Murphy, Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett Published by the University Library University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Telephone (03) 8344 0269 Email [email protected] © The University of Melbourne 2010 ISSN 1835-6028 (Print) ISSN 1836-0408 (Online) All material appearing in this publication is copyright and cannot be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher and the relevant author. The views expressed herein are those of individuals and not necessarily those of the University of Melbourne. Note to contributors: Contributions relating to one or more of the cultural collections of the University of Melbourne are welcome. Please contact the editor, Belinda Nemec, on (03) 8344 0269 or [email protected]. For more information on the cultural collections see www.unimelb.edu.au/culturalcollections. Additional copies of University of Melbourne Collections are available for $20 plus postage and handling. Please contact the editor. Subscription to University of Melbourne Collections is one of the many benefits of membership of the Friends of the Baillieu Library, Grainger Museum Members and Members of the Ian Potter Museum of Art. See www.unimelb.edu.au/culturalcollections/ links/friends.html Front cover: Illustration from Violet Teague and Geraldine Rede, Night fall in the ti-tree (illustrated book, designed, illustrated, printed and hand-bound by the artists; colour woodcut; 32 pages, printed image 24.4 x 17.4 cm), London: Elkin Matthews, 1906. Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Collection, Special Collections, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. See story pp. 14–19. Back cover: Angela Cavalieri, Le città continue (concertina artist book bound by George Matoulas; hand-printed linocut, acrylic, pen and ink; 18 pages, edition: 10; variable dimensions; 57.0 x 39.0 x 3.0 cm [closed]; can fold out to 2 metres). Melbourne: La Bella Press, 2009, edition 2/10. Special Collections, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. © Angela Cavalieri. Image courtesy of the artist and Australian Galleries, Melbourne. Photography by Tim Gresham. CONTENTS Page 2 Introduction John Dewar Page 3 News from the collections Page 8 The physick gardener Susie Shears Page 14 Artists’ books: A world of openings Peter Di Sciascio Page 20 Jules-Bernard Luys and his brain atlas John S. McKenzie Page 26 The University’s forgotten people Juliet Flesch Page 34 A royal portrait Henry F. Atkinson Page 36 Joseph Brown Chris McAuliffe Page 42 Acquisitions Susan Millard, Pam Pryde, David Jones, Bick-har Yeung Page 48 Handel and Haydn Richard Excell Page 51 A Gregorian manuscript in the Ian Potter Museum of Art John R.C. Martyn University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 6, June 2010 Introduction John Dewar The contents of this issue of Chinese books donated by Professor pleased that five of the 11 inaugural University of Melbourne Collections Harry Simon, our Foundation Scholarly Information Innovation vividly illustrate the long-lasting Professor of East Asian Studies; and a Grants, which are funded by the benefits that donors and other rare book by Francis Bacon donated Library, will support cultural benefactors have provided to our by the recently retired Head of the collections: the Medical History cultural collections, whether through Department of Zoology, Professor Museum, Baillieu Library Special the gift of collection items, or funds David Macmillan. Each gift is Collections, Grainger Museum, to support them. Chris McAuliffe for significant in its own right and of School of Chemistry Collection and example discusses the substantial great use to students and researchers, Architecture and Planning Library. enhancements that accrued to the but the connection to a former staff I hope you enjoy reading this issue University of Melbourne Art member or alumnus adds another of University of Melbourne Collections. Collection through the generosity of layer of meaning and value. The University takes seriously its the late Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE. Museums, libraries and archives commitment to public engagement Over several decades Dr Brown require money to make these rich through knowledge exchange, and our donated more than 70 works of art to collections usable and accessible, and collections are tangible evidence of the University, as well as giving to to ensure that they are preserved for that commitment. We are delighted many other institutions. Dr John future generations. Financial gifts are to receive such strong support from McKenzie discusses a rare book that therefore equally important and we the community for our collections. he donated to the Baillieu Library. are fortunate to be able to report on His contribution shows that a donor many projects that have been made Professor John Dewar took up the role of Provost, the University’s chief academic officer, in gives not only the collection object possible through philanthropic September 2009. He was previously Deputy (and in this case also, funds toward support, such as the appointment of a Vice-Chancellor (Global Relations). conserving it), but also the benefit of Curator of Academic Programs at the Professor Dewar is an internationally known family law specialist. A graduate of the University his or her professional expertise that Ian Potter Museum of Art, funded by of Oxford, he taught at the Universities of sheds light on the object itself. The the Ian Potter Foundation; Cultural Lancaster and Warwick and worked for the opportunity to publish a discussion by Treasures Day 2010, funded by a London law firm Allen & Overy. a distinguished medical scientist of a bequest; publication of a new historical text in his own area of brochure listing all the cultural specialisation shows the synergies that collections, supported by the can occur particularly in University University’s Cultural and Community collections. Relations Advisory Group; and The magazine highlights other projects made possible by donors to recent gifts from people with a strong the University’s Annual Appeal. association with our University: maps As Provost, the University Library donated by the former Curator of falls within my area of responsibility Maps, Mrs Dorothy Prescott OAM; and I am therefore particularly 2 University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 6, June 2010 News from the collections A date for your diary: Grainger Studies: An Cultural Treasures Day 2010 Interdisciplinary Journal Visit the University’s collection As well as welcoming visitors to its treasures all on one day. Following the refurbished building, the Grainger success of the inaugural event held in Museum’s role in supporting original 2008, Cultural Treasures Day 2010 research will be enhanced by the will be held on Sunday 14 November launch of a new, scholarly, peer- 2010. Activities will include curators’ reviewed journal, Grainger Studies: talks, workshops, campus and collection An Interdisciplinary Journal. To be tours, and special programs for published annually by the University families. This will be an opportunity Library and edited by Dr David Pear for the whole community to visit in the UK and Dr Belinda Nemec in many of the University’s cultural Melbourne, and with an Advisory collections, some of which are not Board of distinguished international otherwise easy for the public to visit Grainger Museum academics chaired by Professor without an appointment. Discover the Grainger scholars, musicians and Warren Bebbington, Deputy Vice- Grainger Museum, Ian Potter music-lovers in Melbourne and Chancellor (University Affairs), this Museum of Art, Medical History around the world are keenly awaiting international journal will cover the Museum, Henry Forman Atkinson the re-opening later this year of the wide range of subjects which Dental Museum, Centre for Cultural Grainger Museum. The museum has interested Percy Grainger himself, Materials Conservation, Special been undergoing extensive building and are therefore represented in Collections and Print Collection of conservation work, upgrades to staff his museum. The journal will be the Baillieu Library, University of and visitor facilities including published electronically, with printed Melbourne Archives, Rare and construction of a café, and the copies available via ‘print-on- Historic Maps Collection, East Asian creation of a suite of exciting new demand’. For further information see Collection, Louise Hanson-Dyer exhibitions. The building can now www.msp.unimelb.edu.au/index.php/ Music Library, Tiegs Zoology operate to internationally accepted graingerstudies/index or email Museum, School of Physics Museum, standards of environmental control, [email protected] or School of Chemistry Collection, and lighting and security. [email protected] the University of Melbourne Work is continuing apace on the Herbarium. Cultural Treasures Day re-fitting of the gallery spaces, which 2010 is made possible by a gift from will tell the story of Percy Grainger’s the late Estelle Harriet Dow. To life as well