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| Accession Number | ART50111 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Framed: 56.3 cm x 71.4 cm x 5 cm; Unframed: 47.3 cm x 62.2 cm |
| Object type | Painting |
| Physical description | oil on academy board |
| Maker |
Midgley, Ann |
| Place made | Australia: Queensland, Brisbane |
| Date made | 1899 |
| Conflict |
South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War) |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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The departure of the first Queensland contingent for South Africa
Description
Depicts a small crowd at the wharf in Brisbane farewelling the troopship SS 'Cornwall' which took the first contingent to South Africa for the Boer War. Ann (or Annie as she was known) Midgley (1866-1943) was a Queensland artist. She, along with family members, ran a private school in Brisbane in 1905 and as an artist painted in oils and water colours, modelled plaster busts, and after injuring her hand or developing arthritis, took up wood carving as a therapy. She was strongly influenced by her family's Army associations and her brother's war service. She died in 1943 in Brisbane. The SS Cornwell left Sydney on 7 November 1899 with the Queensland contingent for the Boer War on board, along with 285 horses. It stopped at Albany, Western Australia on 16 November and arrived in Capetown , South Africa in December 1899.
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