Photograph, silver gelatin print, of a sketch study based on designs by Lawrence Hargrave, used as a design reference for the Australian twenty dollar banknote designed by Gordon Andrews, photographed by Gordon Andrews, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1963-1966

Gordon Andrews (1914-2001) was one of Australia's foremost industrial designers. Working in Britain and Italy as well as Australia, in 1955 he became the first Australian designer to be elected as a Fellow of the UK Society of Industrial Artists and Designers; later he gained membership of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry and the Alliance Graphique Internationale.

Andrews, Gordon

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

92/194-811 Photograph, silver gelatin print, of a sketch study based on designs by Lawrence Hargrave, used as a design reference for the Australian twenty dollar banknote designed by Gordon Andrews, photographed by Gordon Andrews, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1963-1966

Opaque photographs, usually positive, usually on paper, and generally, but not always, printed from a negative. Use `Negative prints' for prints in which the tones or colours are reversed from their appearance in nature.

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Lawrence Hargrave design reference for twenty dollar banknote designed by Gordon Andrews

Object No. 92/194-811

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