Search results for 'Graham J. Williams'

Twin Chests of Drawers for Government House, Hobart

An exploration into the construction and history of an early, distinctively veneered chest of drawers from Tasmania reveals that it has a twin. E.J. Bateman presents the evidence of the two chests' provenance, noting the 'broad arrow' Government inventory marks, and suggests that they were made by convict cabin...

The face in the footstool: James Barclay’s rare clocks

Recycling ain’t what it used to be. Launceston clock and watch experts Graham and Sallie Mulligan came across a tapestry
footstool which their sharp eyes recognised as comprising re-used parts of an old clock. Further investigation revealed that the
parts came from a sign...

Book reviews

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Max Donnelly with Andrew Montana and Suzanne Veldink, Daniel Cottier: Designer, Decorator, Dealer.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2021. Hard cover,
256 pp, 200 illustrations, Booktopia price $59 plus postage.
Philip...

Angels in the Studio in Western Australia

Continuing our story of the women artists who worked in Western Australia,1 we examine the careers of those who exhibited in the Paris and Glasgow international exhibitions at the turn of the century – when Western Australia was in the midst of a Gold Rush. While Lady Forrest’s work was exhibited in a separ...

W.J. Williams and his paintings

In 2018, Dr Andrew Montana restored William Joseph Williams (1851–1918) as the artist responsible for the late 19th-century painted decoration in South Australia at Ayers House, the Museum of Economic Botany, Rigby’s bookshop, Trew’s South Australian Club Hotel and probably Para Para.1 Now the artist’s ...

At Home' at Clairville: a Tasmanian Branch event

On a beautiful summer’s afternoon, 85 members from Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and northern Tasmania attended the Tasmanian Branch’s 2020 opening event, an ‘At Home’ at Clairville (plate 1) near Evandale, courtesy of the owners, Michael McWilliams and Robert Henley (plates 2-3). The event on 22 ...

Australia's first art potters

Brothers Graham and William Ferry both trained as potters in Yorkshire, emigrated to Victoria and set up their own potteries in Melbourne’s Brunswick in the last two decades of the 19th century. Noted for their sculptural domestic wares and colourful majolica wares, here Greg Hill makes the case for recognisi...

Digitisation for Researchers

At our request, Sydney researcher Yvonne Barber put down some thoughts to help you (and me) improve our knowledge and techniques for researching Australiana, using the November 2018 article on Adelaide painter and decorator W J Williams as an example.

W. J. Williams: art decorator of Ayers House, North Terrace, Adelaide

At a heritage conference in Adelaide in 2015, Dr Donald Ellsmore attributed the superb interior decoration at Adelaide’s Ayers House and Gawler’s Para Para in South Australia to the Sydney decorating firm of Lyon, Cottier & Co. and their employee Charles Gow, purely on speculation. Till now, his opinion has...

The Beleura collection of Klytie Pate pottery

Beleura, the house and garden on the Mornington Peninsula on the southern shore of Port Phillip Bay, is an estate left to the people of Victoria by John ‘Jack’ Morton Tallis (1911–1996), the youngest son of Sir George Tallis of J C Williamson theatres fame... Here was a mystery: how did John Tallis know K...

Making a new mace for the Australian Catholic University

How things are designed and made should interest all those with a passion for the creative arts. One of our members, Christine Erratt, was involved in the process of designing a new mace for the Australian Catholic University because of the important articles she wrote for Australiana, and another member, W.J. ...

The Champion's Belt of Isaac Reid, heavyweight prize-fighter

The National Gallery of Australia holds a three-piece silver buckle that originally formed the central element of a Champion’s Boxing Belt presented to prize-fighter Isaac Reid in 1847 (plate 1). This remarkable belt was made by Sydney silversmiths J.J. Cohen & Son1 and engraved by John Carmichael. Until rece...

Gold Rush jewellers of Melbourne and Dunedin: Wagner & Woollett, Lamborn & Wagner and Wollett and Hewitt

Jewellers William Lamborn, Leopold Wagner and Samuel Woollett all arrived at Melbourne in the first few years after the discovery of gold in Victoria in 1851. Recent research has uncovered new information on these jewellers and their firms – Wagner & Woollett, Lamborn & Wagner and Woollett & Hewitt. The new i...

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.

J.M. Haenke, artist, architect and designer 1877–1963

F.J. Mole, Brisbane silversmith

Plain and fancy: Quilts from the National Quilt Register

‘J. Josephson’ - a Mystery Solved

Obituary: Dr Robert J. L. Martin

Desirable Disabled Potters On

W.J. Sanders, Manufacturing Silversmith, Goldsmiths & Art Metal Workers

Samuel Clayton & the Foundation of the Darling Mills: The Story of an Emancipist Silversmith who influenced the Early Social Fabric of the Colony

Book review: Winsome Shepherd, Gold and Silversmithing in Nineteenth & Twentieth Century New Zealand

A Collector's Profile - An Interview with M. J. M. Carter, 24 August 1994

A Christmas 1829 Medal for John William Chisholm

Governor Bourke's Lost Vase

Reflections on a Collection - Majorie Yvonne Graham (1924-1994)

Obituary: Marjorie Graham (1924-1994)

Ostentation and the Ostrich

Recent Museum Acquisitions of Australiana - J. D. Mackay and the Co-operative Flint Glass Company of Balmain

Orpheus Arfaras: A Talented Immigrant Australian

Matches Strike a Light in Australia

The Twentieth Century: J. C. Taylor and the Harrises - a Foot in Both Camps

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, ‘Australian Jewellers, Gold & Silversmiths - makers & Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

Roller Skating in Australia

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, 'Australian Jewellers, Gold and Silversmiths - makers and Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

Modern Ceramic Products

Book review: Kenneth Cavill, Graham Cocks and Jack Grace, 'Australian Jewellers, Gold and Silversmiths - makers and Marks’, C.G.C Gold Pty Ltd, 1992

The Horn of Plenty - Talking Machine to Gramaphone in Australia

‘Don't Delay - Buy a Bottle Today’. Patent Medicines in Australia

F. W. Nissen Queensland Manufacturing Jeweller and Watchmaker

W. F. Cole, Manufacturing Jeweller

Queensland Manufacturing and Working Jewellers - 1850-1900

Colonialism and Colonial Sculpture. The marble bust of Commodore J. G. Goodenough and the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Concentration on Concrete

New publications: Charles Darwin in Australia, by F. W. Nicholas and J. M. Nicholas. Cambridge Universty Press

New publications: The Amor Centenary 1888 - 1988, compiled by R. J. Byatt, L. J. Carlisle, W. J. Mira. Sydney Metropolitan Coin Club of Sydney in association with Amor-Sanders Pty Ltd

J. A. Clarke's ‘grand picture’ of Brisbane

Exhibition: 'Fred Williams: A Retrospective. Australian National gallery'

W. J. Sanders and Company