Search results for 'James Broadbent'

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...

Designs by Murdoch at the House of Georges

Fashion designer Margaret Murdoch (1912–1999) has been eclipsed by other members of the Murdoch family. In 1938 she went to London to gain experience in fashion design. Her move to the fashion capital of Paris on the eve of World War II led to disruption of her career path, with two stints of internment ...

James Whitesides’ chairs for the Parliament of Tasmania

The cabinet maker James Whitesides (c 1803–1890) arrived in Hobart from Ireland in 1832. He came to the colony with established woodworking skills and in the company of fellow artisans William Hamilton and John McLoughlin. The three opened business premises as Hamilton & Co in Argyle Street, but in Octobe...

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...

James Cook’s Killora 'Resolution' and 'Adventure' medal

Lieutenant James Cook took various gifts on his voyages of discovery, to distribute to Indigenous people whom he might encounter. Peter Lane draws attention to the only example of one of Cook’s medals found in Australia, a memento of friendly contact between the European explorers and Indigenous Tasmanians in...

James and Charlotte Cowlishaw’s ‘Golden Wedding’ Napkin Rings, c 1912

What better way to celebrate a golden wedding than with a golden gift that symbolises affection for the recipients, their intimate connection over 50 years and carries their monograms? Dianne Byrne explores the background to a pair of gold napkin rings presented to James and Charlotte Cowlishaw in Brisbane in 1...

A Cook discovery

Exactly 250 years ago, HMB Endeavour commanded by Lt James Cook was the first British ship to sight the east coast of Australia, then known as the Great South Land or Terra Australis Incognita. As one of the most important exploration milestones in Australia’s history, it now seems to be passing largely unnot...

The mystery of the missing James Coutts Crawford watercolours of Glebe, Sydney c 1845

The authors are seeking to locate a number of watercolours painted by amateur artist James Coutts Crawford, who lived in Australia in the late 1830s and 1840s, especially his views of early settlement on the Glebe peninsula. Then an Arcadian rural retreat, Glebe is now a densely settled inner Sydney suburb, but...

Australian goldsmiths' marks: the records of the Australian Assay Office

When you are dealing with precious metals, you want to know that what you have is what it is claimed to be. European countries instituted hallmarking systems to verify this, some of them operating for over 700 years. Silver expert Jolyon Warwick James discusses how Australia had its own hallmarking system, but ...

The Captain Cook silver statuette

Lieutenant James Cook RN, commanding officer of HMB Endeavour, the renamed collier Earl of Pembroke, sailed on 26 August 1768 from England on a naval and scientific voyage to observe the Transit of Venus, collect natural history specimens and explore the east coast of New Holland. The 250th anniversary of the v...

James Walsh, convict artist in Western Australia

London jeweller's apprentice James Walsh, convicted of theft and forgery, drew on the walls of Fremantle Gaol images of European art, perhaps taken from his own treasured artist's sketchbook. After his release from gaol, his later subjects were taken from his surroundings: landscapes and the fringe-dwelling Ind...

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...

An early Australian silver gift - its authenticity and content

Jolyon Warwick James traces the story of an Australian colonial silver spoon with a name engraved on the stem, and finds a link with a banker who lived and died at Bronte House overlooking one of Sydney’s famous beaches.

Backchat

The first update to my book Convict and Free: the Master Furniture-makers of NSW 1788–1851 will be available on CD in December, with at least two new chapters, on Thomas Mercer Booth and John McMahon. However, Australiana members may be interested to learn now that a reader from Ireland has provided me with d...

James Semple Kerr, Miriam Hamilton and David Ell

Some people are or have been particularly influential in the development of appreciation and understanding of our heritage in Australia. Here we pay tribute to three individuals who contributed significantly, each of them in different ways, and who will be sadly missed both personally and professionally.

The Macquarie Event

The Wallis album is closely linked to the two chests through Captain James Wallis (1785?–1858). Wallis, appointed commandant of the Newcastle penal settlement by Macquarie in 1816, had the Macquarie chest made as a parting gift for Governor Macquarie around 1818. It is possible that Wallis, who retired from t...

James Mitchell's games table

Move over James Oatley

Pre-1820 silversmiths and allied tradesmen in Australia

John Clarke Jr, Andrew Lenehan & James Templeton, 'Cabinet Makers of Castlereagh St, Sydney

James MacNally

John James, the sequel

A Chinese export dessert service

James Oatley's long case clocks

The Schatzkammer and the Antipodes

The Australian Colonial House

Special Excursion (Hyde Park Barracks and the Children's Chapel, St. James Church)

Collecting

James Lumsden, Master Cabinetmaker and the 1851 Great Exhibition

Henry Parkes, James Barnet and the Italian Sculptors of Sydney

Book review: Dr James Boow, ‘Early Australian Commercial Glass: Manufacturing Processes', The Dept of Planning and the Heritage Council of NSW 1991

James Oatley & His Long case Clocks - A list and bibliography

A History of Music in Australia. Mrs Chester from Drury Lane - 1835

A History of Music in Australia. Early Period - New South Wales 1835-1836

Australian Silver and Silversmiths 1788-1815

A History of Music in Australia. Early Period - New South Wales 1834 - June 1835

A History of Musice in Australia - Early Period - New South Wales: 1827 - 1833

A History of Music in Australia - Early Period New South Wales 1818-1826

A History of Music in Australia, Early Period - New South Wales: 1788-1817

New books: Anne Gray, ‘Line, Light and Shadow. James W. R. Linton: Painter, Craftsman, Teacher’, Fremantle Arts Centre Press

Book review: L Richard Smith, ‘Captain James Cook: The Royal Society Medal’, Wedgwood Press 1982

Australian Silver Marks

James Cunningham, Sydney Woodcarver'

The Mint and Hyde Park Barracks