Search results for 'Elizabeth Ellis'

Castlemaine’s Portrait of the Duchess of York

The Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) visited Australia to open our new Commonwealth Parliament in Canberra in 1927. On their royal tour, the Duke and Duchess briefly stopped at Castlemaine station in April 1927, met by an enthusiastic crowd.

The York Street Synagogue Ark

Two early arks held in the museum collection of The Great Synagogue in Elizabeth Street, Sydney are impressive examples of Australian furniture. Their distinct Egyptian style could have been a source of inspiration for the architectural style of the York Street Synagogue (1844). In her search for the...

Much more than an E

The State Library of New South Wales recently purchased a rare original ornithological watercolour by Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841), formerly in the collection of the late James Fairfax AC. This adds to the collection of manuscript letters and other original materials the Library has acquired relating to this i...

The Goulds in Tasmania

In 1832, John Gould produced A Century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains, the plates ‘drawn from nature and on stone by E. Gould’, and five years later, five volumes on the birds of Europe with 448 lithographic plates, most by Elizabeth Gould with 68 by Edward Lear. The bird specimens his brothers- in-la...

History is not wasted on the young

A few years ago, I read an article in The Australian newspaper saying that future generations are at risk for being the generation that forgot history. As a mother who is an antique dealer with a passion for history, I found this a very upsetting concept. In the new world of social media – Instagram, selfies,...

The 2018 Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award 2018: Judge’s Report

Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award 2017 judge's report

The Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award is an annual award which has been generously sponsored by Peter Walker Fine Art of Walkerville, South Australia since 1999. Peter Walker is a valued member and longstanding supporter of the Australiana Society. The Society is most grateful for his continued interest in it...

Letter to the editor, 'Backchat'

From Clive Lucas OBE: I very much enjoyed Robert Stevens’s article on Elizabeth Hudspeth, and would like to draw attention to her involvement with Australia’s first picturesque “Italian” villa at Rosedale near Campbell Town. Miss Hudspeth visited the house soon after its completion in the 1840s to the d...

Elizabeth Hudspeth, an artist in Van Dieman's Land

The works of Elizabeth Hudspeth are largely unknown, like those of many early Australian women artists. Robert Stevens remedies this, and illustrates some of her works which have been rarely or never published nor seen. Her sketches of some early Tasmanian buildings, which have since been destroyed, may be the ...

The Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award 2016 judge's report

The Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award is an annual award generously sponsored by Peter Walker Fine Art of Walkerville, South Australia. Peter Walker is a valued member and longstanding supporter of the Australiana Society. The Society is most grateful for his continued interest in its activities, and in the j...

The Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award 2015 Judge's Report

The Peter Walker Fine Art Writing Award 2014 Judge's Report

Book Review: Robert Purdie, ‘Narrative of the Wreck of HMS Porpoise’

Hordern House continues their excellent service in the publication of early colonial history by releasing Robert Purdie’s Narrative of the Wreck of HMS Porpoise hot on the heels of Elizabeth Ellis’s book on The Sydney Punchbowl in the Mitchell Library. Here the subject is a first-hand description of the fou...

Australiana Society Annual Reports 2013

Our first event after the last AGM was the show-stopping evening at the Mitchell Library to view the Macquarie collector’s chest, the Dixson collector’s chest and the Wallis album with Elizabeth Ellis and Richard Neville. This was one of the very best events that I can remember, with the unique opportunity ...

Book review: Elizabeth Ellis, 'The Sydney Punchbowl'

Hordern House commissioned Elizabeth Ellis OAM, the Emeritus Mitchell Librarian, to research the background to the Chinese export porcelain punchbowl in the Mitchell Library showing scenes of the colony about 1814.

Jewellery is for giving

Collectors and Australiana Society members Graham and Elizabeth Cocks will be remembered by a collection of Arts and Crafts jewellery, generously given by their daughters to the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Powerhouse Museum.

Fit for a Queen: two Royal jubilee testimonies from colonial Queensland

On 6 February 2012, Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, the 60th anniversary of her accession. This milestone has afforded an examination of her life and reign, and has revived interest in the Royal Family at large, including Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Victoria. Queensland – on...

The Peter Walker Fine Writing Award 2012: Judge's Report

Peter Walker Fine Art Award 2011

Chinese puzzles: the Sydney punchbowls

Peter R Walker Fine Art Writing Award, Judge's report

Flora Landellis

Snapshot! How to keep your photos safe

More than a memory - the art of Elizabeth Parsons

Inside the picture framing business ledgers of John Thallon, 19th century picture framer of Melbourne

Does Gideon Saint have the Answer

Journey Through Landscapes - Conrad Martens: Life & Art, Exhibition

The Elizabeth Rouse Mourning Brooch

The Elizabeth Rouse Mourning Brooch

Advance Australia: C. H. Wood, Embellisher of Sea-Shells, Ox-Horn and Whale-Ivory

New publications: A Place for Art - A century of Art, Craft, Design and Industrial Arts Education in Hobart, by Lindsay Broughton, George Burrows & Elizabeth Lada. University of Tasmania, 1988

Sydney's Colonial Craftsmen at Elizabeth Bay House