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The Travelling Table
The Travelling Table A tale of ‘Prince Charlie’s table’ and its life with the MacDonald, Campbell, Innes and Boswell families in Scotland, Australia and England, 1746-2016 Carolyn Williams Published by Carolyn Williams Woodford, NSW 2778, Australia Email: [email protected] First published 2016, Second Edition 2017 Copyright © Carolyn Williams. All rights reserved. People Prince Charles Edward Stuart or ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ (1720-1788) Allan MacDonald (c1720-1792) and Flora MacDonald (1722-1790) John Campbell (1770-1827), Annabella Campbell (1774-1826) and family George Innes (1802-1839) and Lorn Innes (née Campbell) (1804-1877) Patrick Boswell (1815-1892) and Annabella Boswell (née Innes) (1826-1914) The Boswell sisters: Jane (1860-1939), Georgina (1862-1951), Margaret (1865-1962) Places Scotland Australia Kingsburgh House, Isle of Skye (c1746-1816) Lochend, Appin, Argyllshire (1816-1821) Hobart and Restdown, Tasmania (1821-1822) Windsor and Old Government House, New South Wales (1822-1823) Bungarribee, Prospect/Blacktown, New South Wales (1823-1828) Capertee Valley and Glen Alice, New South Wales (1828-1841) Parramatta, New South Wales (1841-1843) Port Macquarie and Lake Innes House, New South Wales (1843-1862) Newcastle, New South Wales (1862-1865) Garrallan, Cumnock, Ayrshire (1865-1920) Sandgate House I and II, Ayr (sometime after 1914 to ???) Auchinleck House, Auchinleck/Ochiltree, Ayrshire Cover photo: Antiques Roadshow Series 36 Episode 14 (2014), Exeter Cathedral 1. Image courtesy of John Moore Contents Introduction .……………………………………………………………………………….. 1 At Kingsburgh ……………………………………………………………………………… 4 Appin …………………………………………………………………………………………… 8 Emigration …………………………………………………………………………………… 9 The first long journey …………………………………………………………………… 10 A drawing room drama on the high seas ……………………………………… 16 Hobart Town ……………………………………………………………………………….. 19 A sojourn at Windsor …………………………………………………………………… 26 At Bungarribee ……………………………………………………………………………. -
Paintings from the Collection 10 Works In
10works in focus Paintings from the Collection VOLUME 3 10 WORKS IN FOCUS: PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION / VOLUME 3 1 This is the third in a series of 10 Works in Focus publications accompanying the State Library of NSW’s Paintings from the Collection permanent exhibition. The State Library’s exhibitions onsite, online and on tour aim to connect audiences across NSW and beyond to our collections and the stories they tell. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/galleries Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are respectfully advised that this exhibition and related materials contain the names and images of people who have passed away. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY The State Library of New South Wales acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which the Library stands. We pay respect to Aboriginal Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other First Nations people. We celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal cultures and languages across NSW. 10works in focus Paintings from the Collection VOLUME 3 Contents 5 Foreword 7 About the exhibition 8 Mr Stanley’s House 10 On a high horse! 12 Shades of grey 14 A rare and honest portrait 16 Acrid smoke and nervous excitement 18 Boys’ day out 22 A standing disgrace to Sydney 24 Poet and painter 26 Miss Mary 28 Affectionately ‘Mullum’ 30 List of works A free exhibition at the State Library of NSW. Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Telephone +61 2 9273 1414 www.sl.nsw.gov.au @statelibrarynsw Curators: Louise Anemaat, Elise Edmonds, -
Part Five: Appendices
136 national museum of australia annual report 08–09 Part five: Appendices Detail of a needlework sampler depicting Botany Bay in the early years of settlement, acquired by the Museum in 2009. part five: appendices 137 138 national museum of australia annual report 08–09 Professor Andrea Hull ao Appendix 1 : BA Dip Ed (Sydney University) Council and committees MBA (Melbourne Business School) Executive Education AGSM, Harvard of the National Museum Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors of Australia Fellow, Australian Institute of Management Director, Victorian College of the Arts (to March 2009) Council members are appointed under Section 13(2) 12 December 2008 – 11 December 2011 of the National Museum of Australia Act 1980. Attended 2/2 meetings executive member Council Mr Craddock Morton members as at 30 june 2009 BA (Hons) (ANU) Mr Daniel Gilbert am (Chair) Director, National Museum of Australia LLB (University of Sydney) Acting Director: 15 December 2003 – 23 June 2004 Managing Partner, Gilbert+Tobin Director: 24 June 2004 – 23 June 2007 Non-Executive Director, National Australia Bank Limited Reappointed: 24 June 2007 – 23 June 2010 Director, Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council Attended 4/4 meetings Member, Prime Minister’s National Policy Commission on Indigenous Housing outgoing members in 2008–09 Councillor, Australian Business Arts Foundation The Hon Tony Staley ao (Chair) 27 March 2009 – 26 March 2012 LLB (Melbourne) Attended 1/1 meeting Chair, Cooperative Research Centres Association Dr John Hirst (Deputy -
Australian Art
Australian Art Selected works of art from the Art Gallery of South Australia Education Services Resource The following selection of key works within the Elder Wing are designed to introduce students to aspects of Australian art. Due to the rotating nature of Gallery displays, please note that Education Services is unable to guarantee that all works of art included in this resource are currently on view. Please contact Education Services to book your visit and discuss whether particular works are on display. Mark Fischer DECD Eduation Manager Art Gallery of South Australia e: [email protected] ph: 08 8207 7033 Image: A break away!, 1891, Tom ROBERTS, Australia,1856-1931, Elder Bequest Fund 1899 Outreach Education is a team of specialist DECD teachers based in major public organisations. Each teacher creates and manages curriculum-focused learning programs for early years to senior students and teachers using the expertise, collections and events at their unique site. SMALL TALK EDUCATION RESOURCE Gallery 1 A View of the artist’s house and garden, in Mills Plains, Van Diemen’s Land, 1835, Tasmania JOHN GLOVER Britain/Australia, 1767-1849 Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1951 English artist John Glover migrated to Tasmania from his home in London in 1830. He bought land and set up a farm near Launceston. Glover’s Tasmanian landscapes often showed his liking for the natural bushland, and his interest in the disappearing indigenous peoples who once lived on the land he now owned. This painting shows a summer’s day at Glover’s new farm. A shingle- roofed stone house and wooden studio look out onto his extensive cottage garden full of flowering plants. -
Early Australian Optical and Radio Observations of Centaurus A
Early Australian Optical and Radio Observations of Centaurus A Peter RobertsonA, C, Glen CozensA, Wayne OrchistonA, Bruce SleeA, B and Harry WendtA A Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia B Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia C Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Abstract: The discoveries of the radio source Centaurus A and its optical counterpart NGC 5128 were important landmarks in the history of Australian astronomy. NGC 5128 was first observed in August 1826 by James Dunlop during a survey of southern objects at the Parramatta Observatory, west of the settlement at Sydney Cove. The observatory had been founded a few years earlier by Thomas Brisbane, the new governor of the British colony of New South Wales. Just over 120 years later, John Bolton, Gordon Stanley and Bruce Slee discovered the radio source Centaurus A at the Dover Heights field station in Sydney, operated by CSIRO‟s Radiophysics Laboratory (the forerunner of the Australia Telescope National Facility). This paper will describe this early historical work and summarise further studies of Centaurus A by other Radiophysics groups up to 1960. Received 2009 October … Keywords: Centaurus A – NGC 5128 – radio galaxies – history of Australian astronomy – Parramatta Observatory – Radiophysics Laboratory 1 Introduction The radio source Centaurus A and its optical counterpart NGC 5128 comprise possibly the most important astronomical object in the history of Australian astronomy. Observations of the southern sky in Australia are as old as human settlement. There is a growing body of evidence that the importance of astronomical knowledge to Aboriginal culture was far greater than previously thought (see e.g. -
Paintings from the Collection 10 Works In
10works in focus Paintings from the Collection VOLUME 2 10 WORKS IN FOCUS: PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION / VOLUME 2 1 This is the second in a series of 10 Works in Focus publications accompanying the State Library of NSW’s Paintings from the Collection permanent exhibition. The State Library’s exhibitions onsite, online and on tour aim to connect audiences across NSW and beyond to our collections and the stories they tell. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/galleries Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are respectfully advised that this exhibition and related materials contain the names and images of people who have passed away. 10works in focus Paintings from the Collection VOLUME 2 Contents 5 Foreword 7 About the exhibition 8 Kangaroo. Kangaroo. Thou spirit of Australia 10 Beyond this colonial lens 12 Hobart Town from Kangaroo Bluff 14 Proof of life 16 Averted gaze 18 Beautiful Sydney all glowing and oriental 22 Al fresco 24 The young art student 26 Beautifully situated 28 Nothing out of the ordinary 30 List of works A free exhibition at the State Library of NSW. Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Telephone +61 2 9273 1414 www.sl.nsw.gov.au @statelibrarynsw Curators: Louise Anemaat, Elise Edmonds, Richard Neville, Margot Riley Creative producers: Mary-Elizabeth Andrews, Karen Hall Creative producer, multimedia: Sabrina Organo Exhibition designer: Elin Thomas Graphic designer: Simon Leong Editor: Cathy Hammer Senior conservator: Felicity Corkill Unless otherwise stated all photographic work is by Digitisation & Imaging, State Library of NSW ISBN 978-1-925831-11-5 (print) ISBN 978-1-925831-12-2 (pdf) E&D-5268-4/2018 Print run: 10,000 Printed by Lighthouse Print Group on Ball & Doggett HannoArt Plus Gloss 350 gsm and 150 gsm © State Library of NSW 2019 4 10 WORKS IN FOCUS: PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION / VOLUME 2 Foreword A painting is like a poem, as the old This exhibition has been made saying goes. -
HIS Port Macquarie Historical Society, 1956 Started As the Hastings District Historical Society (First Meeting 22 March 1956)
Port Macquarie Historical Society HIS Port Macquarie Historical Society, 1956 Started as the Hastings District Historical Society (first meeting 22 March 1956). Incorporated as Hastings District Historical Society Limited (a compnay limited by guarantee) on 1 May 1985. Incorporated as Hastings District Historical Society Incorporated (under the Associations Incorporation Act 1984) on 13 April 1987. Name changed to Port Macquarie Historical Society Incorporated on 11 August 1994. HIS/1 Minutes of Meetings, 1956 HIS/1/1 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings 22 March 1956 to 7 October 1966, 1956-1966 HIS/1/2 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings and management committee meetings (from 14 December 1967) 4 November 1966 to 7 July 1972, 1966-1972 HIS/1/3 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings and management committee meetings 7 July 1972 to 5 August 1977, 1972-1977 HIS/1/4 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings and management committee meetings 10 August 1977 to 5 July 1980, 1977-1980 HIS/1/5 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings and management committee meetings 4 July 1980 to 2 July 1982, 1980-1892 HIS/1/6 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings and management committee meetings 2 July 1982 to 20 June 1984, 1982-1984 HIS/1/7 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings and management committee meetings 6 July 1874 to 18 June 1986, 1984-1986 HIS/1/8 Minutes of monthly and annual general meetings and management committee meetings 4 July 1986 to 15 June 1988, 1986-1988 HIS/1/9 Minutes of monthly -
COLONIAL NSW in the 1820S to the 1840S and ANNABELLA BOSWELL Roslyn Russell
COLONIAL NSW IN THE 1820s TO THE 1840s AND ANNABELLA BOSWELL Roslyn Russell A talk given at the Colonial Weekend at the Coolangatta Estate in May 2009 The convict system In February 1822 Governor Lachlan Macquarie left the colony of NSW after a 12-year period of administration. The ramshackle streets of Sydney had been tidied up, and substantial buildings in the Colonial Georgian style now created an ordered ambience in the growing urban area. The Blue Mountains had been crossed in 1813, and settlement was spreading out from the central node of Sydney, to the west, north and south. By the mid-1820s a mixed society of free settlers, freed convicts and their children, and those still under a sentence of servitude were engaged in developing a thriving colonial economy. I don’t want to dwell on the convict system here, but it is important to understand its nature, as it underpinned the growing prosperity of the Australian colonies which, in its turn, allowed a more cultivated and diverse society to flourish. While I intend to talk about aspects of that cultivated society – and by a not-so-tortuous process involve a mention or two of Dickens – a brief word on how the convict system operated for over 60 years in NSW is in order. Historians have developed the analogy of the convict system as ‘a stairway on which the individual could move either upwards or downwards’. A convict’s position varied with behaviour, and how he or she dealt with the roles they were given by the system. -
State Library NSW Collection
ENTERTAINMENT ART & DESIGN SPECTRUM Out from the store rooms: rare paintings that capture NSW life By Steve Meacham 23 November 2018 — 12:45am Three hundred rare paintings documenting the past two centuries of life in NSW, Australia's first and most populous state, have gone on show together for the first time. Not in an art gallery, but at the State Library of NSW, exhibited in a flamboyant "salon hang" reminiscent of the Parisian Belle Epoque. It is little known that, aside from its literary collections, the library has gathered 1200 oil paintings and 160,000 sketches, watercolours, pastels and prints. Some have artistic merit, and would be highly prized by Australia's state galleries. But most would be rejected by art curators. Their value to the library and the people of the state is historic: they chart the diversity of the Australian experience. To prove their point, library staff picked out 10 paintings worthy of our attention. Corroboree at Newcastle (c. 1818) Corroboree at Newcastle by Joseph Lycett. STATE LIBRARY OF NSW Artist: Joseph Lycett The backstory: Lycett, a transported forger, arrived in Sydney in 1814. Under governor Macquarie, Lycett became one of the colony's earliest artists. This is arguably his most famous work. Despite its romanticism, Lycett had been privileged to observe the intimate customs and rituals of the Awabakal people in what we now know as the Hunter Valley. Sarah Cobcroft (1856) Sarah Cobcroft by Joseph Backler. STATE LIBRARY OF NSW Artist: Joseph Backler The backstory: Sarah was no "oil painting", but she was willing to travel to the other side of the world to be with her common-law husband. -
Art Gallery of New South Wales Annual Report 2015-2016
Annual report 2015–16 Art Gallery of New South Wales CONTENTS President’s foreword 4 Director’s statement 6 Year in brief 8 Building 9 Art 11 People 45 Ideas 54 Audience 57 Partnerships 65 Platforms 70 Sustainability 77 Appendices 80 Cover image Jude Rae SL 359 (detail), 2016 oil on Belgian linen, 122 x 153 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bulgari Art Award 2016 © Jude Rae Acknowledgments Compiled by Shireen Huda Edited by Lisa Girault Art Gallery of New South Wales ABN 24 934 492 575. Entity name: The Trustee for Art Gallery of NSW Trust. The Art Gallery of New South Wales is a statutory body established under the Art Gallery of New South Wales Act 1980 and, from 1 July 2015, an executive agency related to the Department of Justice. The Hon Troy Grant MP Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts Parliament House Macquarie Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 Dear Minister, It is our pleasure to forward to you for presentation to the NSW Parliament the Annual Report for the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the year ended 30 June 2016. This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Annual Report (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984 and the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Regulations 2010. Yours sincerely, David Gonski AC Dr Michael Brand President Director Art Gallery of New South Wales Trust Art Gallery of New South Wales 7 October 2016 3 PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD From its base in Sydney, the Art Gallery of New South Sponsorship Wales is dedicated to serving the widest possible audience Our engagement with schools is stronger than ever. -
Colonial Family Portrait,1864 –
1865 – Fashionable lady, Parramatta What we see in this image This full-length portrait shows a fashionably-dressed young woman, aged in her mid-20s though her identity is unrecorded. Evidence of prolonged exposure to the sun (clearly seen in the tan line across the subject’s brow) may indicate that she is a recently arrived immigrant or has travelled in to town from the interior of the colony. She is posed standing next to a leather-upholstered armchair, set on a geometrically-patterned floor cloth, in front of a photographer’s backdrop, depicting a balcony scene with a grand column, decorative awning and coastal view stretching to the horizon behind her. The negative also captures part of the interior of the Parramatta studio of native-born photographer Henry William Burgin II, though much of this detail would have been cropped out of the final print. The woman wears a plain, dark [silk] taffeta day dress which looks to be brand new, exhibiting all the latest fashionable features. The high-necked bodice is worn with a narrow, white collar above a plain corsage, with bands of ruched self-fabric trim forming a V-shape rising up from the round waist over to the sloping, dropped shoulder line, and epaulettes fitted at the upper arm above full ‘bishop’ sleeves gathered into a centre front seam and worn with narrow white cuffs. The full, bell-shaped skirt is pleated into the waist, above a pair of ornamental patch pockets, and has a moderately full flounce inserted above the hem, the seam trimmed with dark [velvet] flowers. -
The World Upside Down: Australia 1788
Acquired over nearly a century, the collections of the National Library of Australia relate the history of Australia through material that includes books, maps, pictorial items, manuscripts and ephemera. A considerable amount of material held by the Library concerns the period immediately following the establishment of the British colony in New South Wales. The World Upside Down: Australia 1788-1830 draws on the Library's collections to explore many fascinating aspects of early Australian life, art and the documentary record. Together with the exhibition of the same name, this collection of essays provides an insight into our colonial past and the unique collections of the National Library of Australia. The World Upside Down Autralia 1788 - 1830 National Library of Australia Canberra 2000 Published by the National Library of Australia Canberra ACT 2600 Australia © National Library of Australia 2000 National Library of Australia Calaloguing-in-Publication entry The world upside down; Australia 1788-1830 ISBN 0 642 10713 0. 1. National Library of Australia—Exhibitions. 2. Rex Nan Kivell Collection—Exhibitions. 3. Rex Nan Kivell Collection. 4. Ferguson Collection. 5. Ferguson Collection—Exhibitions. 6. Art, Colonial—Australia—Exhibitions. 7. Australia—History—1788-1851—Exhibitions I. National Library of Australia. 994.02 Exhibition Curators: Michelle Hetherington and Seona Doherty Assistant Curator: Irene Turpie Designer; Kathy Jakupec Editor: Kathryn Favelle Printed by: Lamb Print Pty Ltd, Perth Cover: Joseph Lycett (c.1775-1828) View from Near the Top of Constitution Hill, Van Diemens Land plate 15 of his Views in Australia London: J. Souter, 1 January 1825 hand-coloured aquatint; plate mark 23 x 33 cm U658 NK380/40 Unless otherwise indicated, all of the images and items reproduced in this publication are held in the collections of the National Library of Australia.