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'A' Battery Field Artillery, New South Wales
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
Tom Roberts established "Curlew camp" at Sirius Cove in Mosman by the end of the 1890s. While camped there, concentrating on painting outdoors, Roberts was commissioned to paint three works depicting ...ART15032
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Captain Henry Hampson
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Maker: Clayton, H
Aged seventeen, Henry Hampson sailed from Britain to Australia, settling in South Australia. In 1887 he was appointed Adjutant to the First Battalion of Volunteers, promoted to Major in 1891. During ...ART50205
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Easter Manoeuvres: the Nelson bombarding Queenscliff
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Maker: Unknown Alfred May & Alfred Martin Ebsworth Australasian Sketcher
This print was published in the Melbourne based, Australasian Sketcher, on 22 April 1882. There are five images compiled into this print. The top left image is captioned 'Queenscliff Night Visions' ...ART50167
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Enrolling troops for South Africa in Sydney: the rush of applicants
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Maker: Leist, Fred Leist, Fred The Graphic
As part of the British Empire, the Australian Colonies offered troops for the war in South Africa. Australians served in contingents raised by the six colonies and from 1901, by the new Australian Com...ART96133
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Fortifications, South Head
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co
One of two drawings by Julian Ashton commissioned for 'the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' (Volume II, p71) to illustrate the fortifications at South Head and the 25-ton gun at Middle Head, Sydney, ...ART94388
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HMCS Nelson in the Dock, Melbourne
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
Newspaper supplement featuring the Alfred Graving Dock. This print was published in the Australasian Sketcher, Melbourne, 21 March 1874.ART50176
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HMS Royal Arthur
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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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Infantryman of New South Wales 2nd Infantry Regiment
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
pre-Federation; 1896; New South 2nd Infantry Regiment; unidentified soldier wearing full dress uniform, pith helmet with NSW helmet plate, and carrying a Martini Henry single shot rifle 1875 model wit...ART19506
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Lieutenant-Colonel T. Price commanding Victoria Mounted Rifles
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Maker: after William H. Overend Illustrated London News
Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Price was appointed by the government in 1885 to raise, command and organise a colonial corps known as the Victorian Mounted Rifles. It numbered about 1000 and was purely volun...ART19560
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Merchantmen and HMVS 'Nelson', Hobson's Bay, Williamstown
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Maker: Artist unknown
Group of colonial merchant vessels with HMVS 'Nelson' at Hobson's Bay, Williamstown, Victoria.ART91192
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Mounted police and blacks
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Maker: Godfrey Charles Mundy Walton, W.L Bentley, Richard Hullmandel & Walton
The Slaughterhouse Creek massacre of 26 January 1838 occured when New South Wales Military Mounted Police, under the command of Major James Nunn, set out in response to violence on the Liverpool Plain...ART50023
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Naval illumination in Hobson's Bay
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This print featured on the front page of the Australasian Sketcher on 23 October 1880. It shows vessels letting off fireworks, while crowds are gathered along the shoreline to watch. Hobson's Bay in...ART50168
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Not titled [training exercise: Victorian mounted riflemen]
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Maker: Penry, J.
A group of Victorian colonial mounted riflemen in a training exercise. They have demounted, their horses are to one side, and they are firing over a small hill. The Victorian mounted rifles went on to...ART94352
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Our torpedo defences
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
'Our torpedo defences': an illustrated page from 'The Australasian Sketcher', Melbourne, 8 June 1878, p. 37. The page comprises seven images titled as follows: Half pound disc gun cotton; Exterior and...ART19851
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Our torpedo defences
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Maker: Unknown Australasian Sketcher
This wood engraving was published in The Australasian Sketcher, 1 June 1885, page 89. It shows the work of the colonial Torpedo group in laying down mines, minefields and the torpedo defences at Quee...ART19849
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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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Renewing the boilers of HMVS 'Cerberus'
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Maker: Unknown The Illustrated Australian News
The boilers of the Cerberus were condemned by authorities as being unsafe in 1881. Repairs proved too difficult until engineers discovered a way to remove the funnel from the upper deck and therefore ...ART19857
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Saluting the squadron on board the Nelson; verso: page of newspaper text from 'The Australaisan Sketcher'
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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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Sergeant R.D. Fraser, Mounted Rifles
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Maker: Roberts, Tom
'Sergeant Fraser' was one of a suite of full length portraits which Roberts painted on small wooden panels in the 1890s. The subject for this work was Robert Donald Fraser who was a volunteer in the N...ART19505
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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