Item 19: Macquarie family travelling medicine chest, 182-
Item 19: Macquarie family travelling medicine chest, 182-
About this item
Full title
Date
182-
Call Numbers
R 2129
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Objects and Manuscripts
Physical Description
Contents
0.01 metres of textual material - manuscript, printed
5 weights - 1.7 x 1.7 cm or smaller
15 apothecary bottles and bottle stoppers - various sizes - glass
weighing instruments - balance 5.0 x 12.2 x 1.2 cm, balance trays 5.2 cm diameter - white metal, brass, threads
1 medicine chest - chest 20.5 x 18.9 x 16.0 cm (closed), locking pin 9.2 cm x 0.4 cm diameter - mahogany, crushed velvet lining inside top lid and compartments, metal handles, key hole and locking pin
1 apothecary box - 4.3 x 3.7 x 4.5 cm with loop 0.9 cm - [lead or zinc?]
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Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
CHEST, DRAWER, TRAY AND COMPARTMENTS
The medicine chest is an example of nineteenth century campaign furniture. It is made of mahogany with crushed blue velvet lining in the lid and in the sides of bottle compartments and the sides and base of two empty drawer compartments. It is finely figured to the front with a plainer grain mahogany timber u...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 19: Macquarie family travelling medicine chest, 182-
Notes
General note
Digital order no:a9596001
Object History
Lachlan Macquarie the younger left part of his estate, including most of his father’s papers, to his close friend William Henry Drummond, later the 9th Viscount Strathallan. Thus the Macquarie estates and their contents passed to the Drummond family, where they remained in the family home, Strathallan Castle. William Drummond sold the Macquarie est...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Ian Mazur (great grandson of Lt. Col. Charles Greenhill-Gardyne), July 2013
Administrative / Biographical history
From this wide span of dates on the druggists labels, it is hard to ascertain for certain whether the medical chest belonged to Lachlan Macquarie senior or junior. It may have been used by both generations. With the approximate date being ca. 1820, it is possible it belonged to Lachlan senior, who died in 1824.
Reference:
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Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
R 2129
Record Identifier
9NaAakbY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaAakbY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1058421
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