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Acheron
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Section through 19th Century Acheron torpedo boat HMCS Acheron. The top image shows the deck plan of HMCS Acheron and the lower image shows the ship underway at sea. The torpedo spar was fitted at t...ART19864
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Embarkation of the New South Wales troops for the Sudan
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton The Illustrated Australian News
Depicts men of the NSW Contingent (infantry and artillery) boarding a ship (either SS Iberia or SS Australasian) to sail to Sudan with a crowd of civilians on wharf to see them off, after the artist G...ART19881
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HMCS Protector
Art
Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Her Majesty's Colonial Ship HMCS Protector became the longest serving ship in Australia (60 years), served in in the Boxer Rebellion, the First World War, as a tender at, and was requisitioned by the ...ART19863
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HMS Royal Arthur
Art
Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Pre Federation, pre-1901 and not BA, NZ, SU or CH; 1898; HMS Royal Arthur; vessles, fishing vessles.ART90990
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HMS Wallaroo and Royal Arthur
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Maker: Ashton, Julian Rossi
Depicts two vessels from the Royal Navy Auxiliary Squadron, HMS Wallaroo and HMS Royal Arthur. HMS Wallaroo (originally laid down as HMS Persian) was a third class cruiser, and HMS Royal Arthur, a fir...ART20004
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Menagerie race at the naval and military sports
Art
Maker: after Samuel Calvert Illustrated Australian News
Military volunteers with an assortment of animals at the start of the menagerie Race. The starter has a smoking pistol in his hand. This is an illustration from the Illustrated Australian News, 7 Nove...ART50183
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Our colonial defences: a company of the mounted rifles manoeuvring in Victoria
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Maker: Dadd, Frank
Depicts the company of VMR (Victorian Mounted Rifles) riding through bushland during training. It has been alleged that this work was based on a photograph sent to the Graphic by Lieutenant Colonel To...ART19712
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Raising the 25-ton gun, Middle Harbour fortifications, Sydney
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
A group of men from the New South Wales Artillery pulling on a rope winch to lift a 25 ton gun onto a barge in Middle Harbour, Sydney. The gun was to be placed in defensive fortifications. There is a ...ART19848
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Saluting the squadron on board the Nelson; verso: page of newspaper text from 'The Australaisan Sketcher'
Art
Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This engraving is by an unknown artist after George Ashton. It shows a scene published in 'The Australasian Sketcher', Melbourne, 4 May 1885, depicting a gun crew on the frigate HMS 'Nelson' firing a ...ART50175
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1st Battalion (West Melbourne) Victorian Infantry
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Maker: Bunnett, Henry
1880s; uniforms, rifle, horse; 1st Battalion (West ) n Infantry; foreground: marching soldier with rifle, background: mounted officer and Bugler on foot. Infantry uniforms were based on British models...ART19501
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The Cerberus Turret-Ship
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Maker: Unknown Illustrated London News
HMVS Cerberus (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship) was a breastwork monitor that served in the Victorian Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF), and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1871 a...ART19859
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The ceremony of unveiling the statue of Captain Cook, Hyde Park, Sydney
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Maker: Montague Scott, J Illustrated Sydney News
Thomas Woolner's statue of Captain Cook is unveiled in Hyde Park, Sydney. The ceremony was attended by some thirty thousand spectators, and included a parade by men of the Royal Navy, Naval Brigade an...ART19819
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The opening of Prince's bridge in Melbourne
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Maker: Ham, Thomas
Depicts the 1850 opening ceremony of the Prince's Bridge over the Yarra River by the Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe (or Latrobe) as soldiers fire a salute. There is a large crowd of spec...ART19822
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The Queen's Review: Aldershot, 26 June 1899
Art
Maker: Maud, W T
Depicts a large number of civilians watching the Royal Horse Artillery passing the Queen 's carriage during the Queen's Review at Aldershot in the late 19th century. The New South Wales Lancers also t...ART19555
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The 77th Galop song-sheet cover
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Band of 77th Regiment playing in the Botanical Gardens to celebrate the end of the war in the Crimea (this Regiment was only in Australia from September 1857 to April 1858). A crowd of people are list...ART19818
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The Victorian Volunteer Waltz
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Maker: Troedel, Charles
Sheet music cover depicting four Volunteers in the uniforms of artillery, infantry, mounted staff officer and mounted rifles, with a gun. Music arranged by the Bandmaster (Mr Thomas Ellis) of the 1st ...ART19993
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The War in New Zealand: Storming the Rifle Pits at Te Ranga, 21 June 1864
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Unknown
This print depicts the final battle at Te Ranga in the Tauranga campaign, as part of the Maori Wars (1864-1872) in New Zealand. The campaign started as a side show to the Invasion of the Waikato, wher...ART50235
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Victorian artillery
Art
Maker: Bunnett, Henry
The artist's depiction of Victorian Field Artillery uniforms from the 1890s, showing an Officer of the Victorian artillery with a field gun in the background.ART19500
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Victorian Mounted Rifles
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Maker: Bunnett, Henry
Depicts a dismounted officer of the Victorian Mounted Rifles (VMR) (the uniform he is wearing is oversimplified and inaccurate), with the horse wearing military bridle pattern 1885 and officer's saddl...ART19543
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Warriors of New South Wales
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Maker: John Heaviside Clark NSW Supplement of Foreign Field Sports Orme, Edward Dove, J.F.
Depicts Aboriginal men, wearing body paint and paint (or clay) on heads carrying spears and shields.This is one of the earliest works in the art collection which reveals much about the commonly held v...ART50114