Item 16: Travelling trunk, said to have belonged to Lachlan Macquarie [ca. 1808-1821]
Item 16: Travelling trunk, said to have belonged to Lachlan Macquarie [ca. 1808-1821]
Item 16: Travelling trunk, said to have belonged to Lachlan Macquarie [ca. 1808-1821]
About this item
Full title
Date
Between 1808 and 1821
Call Numbers
XR 48
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Objects - 32 x 64 x 25.5 cm. - 1 cedar trunk, covered in black hide with brass plaque on lid & brass handles on either side, metal studs on edges & corners. Key lock at front, ring-shaped handle above the keyhole. Key, on purple ribbon, inside trunk. Trunk interior Dutch giltpaper-lined
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Item
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 16: Travelling trunk, said to have belonged to Lachlan Macquarie [ca. 1808-1821]
Notes
General note
Undated. Dated from time Macquarie was Governor of NSW
According to Dr James Broadbent, Historic Houses Trust of N.S.W., the trunk is lined with paper that orginated from China.
Note written by Irene Fowler in 1938, re: the trunk's provenance, is filed at Pxn 833
Digital order no:Album ID : 823504
Signature / Inscriptions
"The first owner of this travelling trunk (is said) to have been Governor Macquarie. Then , Rev. R. Cartwright, Colonial Chaplain. Next, Rev. J. A. Waddell, the Chaplain's nephew, who gave it to Miss S. Cartwright, the Chaplain's grand-daughter; year 1932" -- engraved on brass plaque on lid
"Ann Cartwright the gift of her Mother. August 1830" --...
Conservation note
Trunk was cleaned by external conservator in June 2010 for the Macquarie Exhibition
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Miss Irene Fowler, 1975
Pic.Acc.3487
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
XR 48
Record Identifier
9arpm0En
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9arpm0En
Other Identifiers
Reference code
430598
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