Young and Jackson's corner, 1943
Artist
Len Annois
(1906 - 1966)
Date1943
Object number00028360
NameLithograph
MediumPaper
DimensionsSight: 215 × 193 mm
Image: 180 × 160 mm
Mount / Matt size: 370 × 342 mm
Image: 180 × 160 mm
Mount / Matt size: 370 × 342 mm
ClassificationsArt
Credit LineANMM Collection
Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds
DescriptionLithograph by Len Annois depicting servicemen and women standing outside Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel in Swanston Street, Melbourne circa 1943. It depicts a night scene showing soldiers, sailors and girls in the street. Young and Jackson's hotel was a popular destination for servicemen who were based in Melbourne during the Second World War.HistoryThe Young and Jackson Hotel is located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia. The site was originally a home which became a schoolhouse in 1839. After the school was demolished in 1853, five warehouses were erected on the site and the Princes Bridge Hotel, an amalgamation of the five buildings, opened on 1 July 1861. The Hotel was renamed Young and Jackson after Henry Young and Thomas Jackson, the Irish diggers who took over the pub in 1875. In the 1920s the pub was extended and the five buildings were repainted and rendered to match each other in style. The pub is famous for its life-size nude painting 'Chloé', painted by the French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre in 1875. It was purchased for 800 pounds by the Hotel in 1908 and damaged in 1943 by an American serviceman who threw a glass of beer at it.SignificanceThis lithograph by a well known Victorian artist is representative of the everyday life of off duty servicemen based in Melbourne during the Second World War.
