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Treasures Gallery Exhibition checklist

October 2011

REALIA

Robert Brettell Bate, Mathematical, Optical & Philosophical Instruments, Wholesale, Retail &

for Exportation, London

Surveying instruments used by Sir Thomas Mitchell during his three expeditions

1831–1846

brass, bronze, iron, glass and cedar; 66.0 x 63.5 x 32.0 cm (assembled)

Maps Collection, nla.pic-an6393476

Donated by the descendants of Sir Thomas Mitchell

EMI Australia, Sydney, and EMI Group, London

Torch of the XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956

diecast aluminium alloy and silver ; 40.0 x 14.2 cm

Pictures Collection, nla.pic-vn4532747

Recent acquisition

BlueSky (design consultant), G.A. & L. Harrington (manufacturer) for Sydney Organising

Committee for the Olympic Games and University of Adelaide School of Mechanical

Engineering, in partnership with Fuel and Combustion Technology Pty Ltd (engineer)

Sydney Olympic torch 2000

aluminium, steel and plastic coating; 78.0 x 10.0 x 6.3 cm

Pictures Collection, PIC OBJ A40010589

William Burwash and Richard Sibley, London (registered 1805)

Salver presented to Sir James Stirling on 31 December 1838 1837

sterling silver; 56.5 cm (diam.)

Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an6227485

Presented to the Commonwealth Government in 1938 by Reginald Purbrick, Member of

Parliament for Liverpool Walton, United Kingdom

W. Butcher and Sons, London (est. 1902)

Harold Cazneaux’s Midg box quarter-plate c.1904

wood, metal and glass; 15.8 x 12.8 x 22.3 cm


Presented by Dick Smith on behalf of Rainbow Johnson, 1994

Nelson Illingworth (1862–1926)

Cast of Henry Lawson's hand 1922

bronze; 24.0 x 12.0 x 7.5 cm

Sir William Dargie Collection (Pictures), nla.pic-an8005282

Neville Bonner (1922–1999)

Boomerang 1968

paint and wood; 23.0 x 55.7 x 7.0 cm


http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an6393476

http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4532747





Bullseye lantern owned by bushranger ‘Captain Moonlite’ c.1860

iron, glass and textile wick; 17.5 x 8.5 x 15.5 cm


Presented by Mrs J. Edmondson, 1951

Mere pounamu 18th or early 19th century

nephrite jade; 33.5 x 8.0 cm

Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Pictures), nla.pic-an24393287

Kotiate paraoa 18th or early 19th century

whalebone; 33.6 x 12.0 cm


1812 life mask of Ludwig van Beethoven, aged 41

plaster; 28.0 x 17.0 x 12.0 cm


Bequest of Eve Hungerford, 1977

Emu egg on silver stand c.1860

emu eggshell and silver; 25.0 cm (height)


Dora Ohlfsen (1867–1948)

Commemorative medal sold to raise money for permanently disabled Australian and

New Zealand soldiers 1916 (design), 1919 (struck)

bronze; 3.3 cm (diam.)


William Farmer & Co. Inc. (est. 1897)

Key presented to the Prime Minister W.M. Hughes upon the opening of the

Commonwealth Bank, Sydney 22 August 1916

gold; 16.0 x 21.3 cm

Papers of William Morris Hughes (1862–1952)

Manuscripts Collection, MS 1538, Series 50

Erik Lindberg (1873–1966) and Bertram Mackennal (1863–1931)

Olympic gold medal for swimming won by Fanny Durack at Stockholm 1912

gold; 3.3 cm (diam.)


Presented by Frank Durack, 1956

Paul Newell (designer), Trofe Australia Pty Ltd (manufacturer)

Fatso the Fat-arsed Wombat, as seen on The Dream with Roy and H.G during the

Olympics, Sydney 2000

gold; 2.6 x 2.4 cm










Attributed to Julius Hogarth and Conrad Erichsen (designers) for Flavelle Bros & Co

(manufacturer)

Australian design brooch c.1850s



Presented by Lady Katherine Darwin

Elizabeth Macquarie’s earrings made from gold found in Prospect, Blue Mountains, NSW

c.1830

gold and citrine; 5.7 x 8.0 x 8.0 cm


Donated by Mr Edward Manley Hopkins, descendant of Elizabeth Macquarie's niece, 1968

Garrard & Co. Ltd, London (est. 1735)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire, imperial honours decoration given to Bessie

Rischbieth, Western Australian suffragette 1935

gold; 19.0 x 9.4 x 1.0 cm

Bessie Rischbieth Collection (Pictures), PIC OBJ A40006840

Rattlesnake-shaped brooch that Owen Stanley’s sister-in-law, Eliza N. Stanley, gave to

the wife of Dr John Thomson, surgeon on HMS Rattlesnake, in remembrance ‘of the old

ship’ c.1850

gold, enamel and gemstones; 4.5 cm (diam.)


Presented by Mary Bennett, 1966

Tiffany & Co., New York

David Livingstone Centenary Medal awarded to Antarctic adventurer Thomas Griffith

Taylor by the American Geographical Society 1923


Papers of Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963)

Manuscripts Collection, MS 1003

Rebecca Emes & Edward Barnard, London (est. 1808)

Silver kettle and spirit lamp given by Queen Charlotte to Sir Joseph Banks 1813

silver; 31.0 x 26.5 x 14.5 cm






TERRA AUSTRALIS TO AUSTRALIA

Early exploration

Alessandro Piccolomini (1508–1578)

Figure XLVII: The Southern Cross (De la corona Australe)

in On the fixed stars (De le stelle fisse)

Venice: 1552 (third edition)

woodcut; 21.5 x 32.0 cm

Overseas Rare Books Collection, nla.gen-vn3007571

Richard Cushee (active 1729–1732 )

A new terrestrial globe drawn from the best authorities … containing the latest

discoveries

London: 1731

coloured lithograph on plaster, mahogany and brass; 38.0 cm (globe diam.)

Maps Collection, nla.map-glob6

Leonard Compere Cushee (active 1751–1760)

A new globe of the earth

London: 1751

coloured engraving on plaster, engraved copper and mahogany; 7.0 cm (globe diam.)

Maps Collection, nla.map-glob8

Attributed to Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–c.1651)

Portrait of Abel Tasman, his wife and daughter c.1637

oil on canvas; 106.7 x 132.1 cm


Attributed to Gerard van Keulen (1678–1726)

The South Land discovered by Willem de Vlamingh … (T Zuijd landt ontdeckt door

Willem de Vlaming …) 1697 c.1712

ink and watercolour; 57.0 x 96.8 cm and 56.8 x 96.8 cm

Maps Collection, nla.map-rm751 and nla.map-rm752

Johann Bayer (1572–1625), Alexander Mair (engraver) (c.1562–1617)

Uranometria, containing charts of all the constellations (Uranometria, omnium

asterismorum continens schemata)

Augsburg: Christophorus Mangus, 1603

engraving; 36.3 x 53.0 cm

Maps Collection, nla.map-ra307

Hendrick Doncker (1626–1699) after Jan Jansson (1588–1664)

Indian Ocean (Mar di India)

in The sea atlas (De zee-atlas ofte water-waereld)

Amsterdam: 1659

hand-coloured engraving; 46.0 x 63.0 cm

Petherick Collection (Maps), nla.map-ra10-s45

Recent acquisition

http://nla.gov.au/nla.gen-vn3007571

http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-glob6

http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-glob8


http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm751


http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra307

http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra10-s45

François Valentijn (author) (1656–1727) and workshop of Frederik Ottens (illustrator)

(active 1700–1749)

The old and new East Indies (Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien), volume 3, part 2

Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Joannes van Braam and others, 1724–1726

44.5 x 58.3 cm

Overseas Rare Books Collection, nla.map-t1273

Attributed to Abraham Anias (1694–1750)

Chart of the Indian Ocean 1730

Middelburg, the Netherlands: Abraham Anias, 1730

ink on vellum; 61.6 x 84.2 cm

Maps Collection, nla.map-rm4096

Recent acquisition

Isaac de Graaf (1668–1743)

From the Cape of Good Hope to the Sunda Straits, annotated with tracks of the ship

Diemermeer

Amsterdam: 1735–c.1745

ink, pigment and pencil on parchment; 71.0 x 94.0 cm

Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, nla.map-vn4601455

Cook’s voyages

James Cook (1728–1779)

Endeavour journal 1768–1771

ink; 34.0 x 52.5 cm

Manuscripts Collection, nla.ms-ms1

Inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, 2001

Additional instructions for Lt James Cook appointed to command His Maj’s Bark the

Endeavour (secret) 30 July 1768

ink; 32.5 x 20.3 cm


James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton (1702–1768)

Hints offered to the consideration of Captain Cooke, Mr Bankes, Dr Solander and the

other gentlemen who go upon the expedition on board the Endeavour Chiswick, London

10 August 1768

ink; 23.1 x 18.5 cm

Papers of Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820)

Manuscripts Collection, nla.ms-ms9-113

http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t1273


http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn4601455

http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms1


http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms9-113

Bureau c.1760

Indian rosewood, ebony and ivory; 61.0 x 57.0 x 58.4 cm


Presented by the directors of Angus and Robertson, 1970

Richard Goodman (active 1807–1822)

The Resolution Table c.1810

various timbers and ivory; 73.5 x 150.0 x 66.0 cm

Permanent loan from the David Roche Foundation

George Carter (1737–1795)

Death of Captain Cook 1781



Alexander Shaw (active 1780–1790)

Patterns of cloth made and wore by natives of the South Sea Islands being part of the

collection made by the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook in his first,

second and third voyages

London: Alexander Shaw, 1787

ink and barkcloth; 22.9 x 18.5 cm

Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Manuscripts), nla.ms-ms4299g

Coat of arms 1785

watercolour and leather; 21.2 x 16.5 cm


Recent acquisition

Bookplate after 1785

engraving; 19.0 x 12.9 cm


Thomas Hannam and Richard Mills, London

Silver salver c.1764

engraved sterling silver; 3.8 x 31.0 cm (diam.)

Maps Collection, nla.map-rm4249

Recent acquisition

Walking cane c.1770

bamboo and wax; 70.2 x 2.2 cm (diam.)


Fork c.1770

ebony and metal; 18.3 x 1.5 x 0.8 cm


Presented by the Honourable J. Hume Cook



http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms4299g






Box made from the wood of HMB Endeavour c.1879

wood, textile and metal; 6.3 x 11.9 x 8.3 cm


Table of star signs and dates, compass, spirit level, sundial, astrolabe and measuring

instrument in a wooden box c.1750

wood, bronze and glass; 47.0 x 20.5 x 10.5 cm


Richard Cosway (1740–1821)

Snuff box with miniature portrait believed to be of Isaac Smith c.1784

oil on wood, glass, brass and silver; 7.2 x 2.2 cm


Presented by F.A. Mathias

John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779)

Captain James Cook, Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Sandwich, Dr Daniel Solander and Dr John

Hawkesworth after 1771



Bequest of Dame Merlyn Myer, 1982

Sydney Parkinson (c.1745–1771)

Bread fruit 1769

watercolour; 31.0 x 38.8 cm


Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

Omai of the Friendly Isles c.1774

pencil; 26.6 x 19.6 cm


William Hodges (1744–1797)

Portrait of Tynai-mai, Princess of Raiatea c.1773

chalk; 54.3 x 37.2 cm


William Hodges (1744–1797)

Otoo, King of Otaheite 1773

chalk; 80.0 x 57.5 cm


John Webber (1752–1793)

A chief of the Sandwich Islands 1787












Bligh’s mutinies

Alexander Huey (active 1809–1818))

Portrait of Rear-Admiral William Bligh 1814

watercolour on ivory; 11.5 x 8.4 cm


William Bligh (1754–1817)

The Bligh notebook 28 April to 14 June 1789

ink; 17.1 x 10.7 cm


William Bligh (1754–1817)

List and description of HMS Bounty mutineers 1789

ink; 32.1 x 19.6 cm


George Johnston (1764–1823)

Proclamation issued by Major George Johnston on the day after the deposition of

Governor William Bligh 27 January 1808

print; 31.0 x 20.0 cm

Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Australian Collection), nla.aus-vn4511526

Early settlement

Arthur Bowes Smythe (1750–1790)

List of the names, ages and crimes of female convicts aboard the Lady Penrhyn

in Journal 1787–1789

ink; 20.0 x 17.0 cm


James Griffiths (1792–)

Letter to his mother Portsmouth, 2 June 1822

ink; 23.3 x 36.4 cm


John Hunter (1737–1821)

Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

in Birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90

1788–1790



George Raper (1769–1797)

Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) c.1789



Purchased from the Ducie–Moreton family, 2005




http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn4511526





Playbill for a Performance of Jane Shore, The Wapping Landlady and The Miraculous Cure

at the Theatre, Sydney, Saturday 30 July 1796

Sydney : George Hughes, Govt. Printer for Theatre, Sydney, 1796

typeset ink on handmade paper; 20.0 x 12.0 cm

Australian Rare Books Collection, nla.aus-vn4200235

Gift from the Government of Canada to the people of Australia, 2007

Port Jackson Painter (active 1788–1790s)

Five half-length portraits of Aborigines c.1790

watercolour, gouache and graphite; 39.2 x 53.0 cm


Attributed to Francis Fowkes (active 1788–1800)

Sketch & description of the settlement at Sydney Cove Port Jackson in the County of

Cumberland taken by a transported convict on the 16th of April, 1788, which was not quite

3 months after Commodore Phillips’ landing there

London: R. Cribb, 24 July 1789

watercolour and engraving; 27.0 x 38.6 cm

Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Maps), nla.map-nk276

George Raper (1769–1797)

The melancholy loss of HMS Sirius off Norfolk Island, 19th March 1790 1791

ink and watercolour; 18.2 x 22.8 cm


Augustus Earle (1793–1838)

Portrait of Bungaree, a native of New South Wales c.1826



William Westall (1781–1850)

Chasm Island, native cave painting 1802



William Westall (1781–1850)

Views on the south coast of Australia 1802



Matthew Flinders (1774–1814)

General chart of Terra Australis or Australia showing the parts explored between 1798

and 1803 by M. Flinders, Commander of HMS Investigator

London: G. & W. Nicol, Pall Mall, 1814

copperplate engraving; 72.3 x 99.1 cm

Tooley Maps Collection, nla.map-t570



http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk276





http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t570

John William Lewin (1770–1819)

Plate 14: Scarlet-backed Warbler (Sylvia dorsalis)

in Birds of New Holland with their natural history

London: J. White and S. Bagster, 1808

hand-coloured etching; 39.5 x 27.8 x 1.3 cm

Petherick Collection (Australian Rare Books), nla.aus-vn4511838

Joseph Lycett (c.1775–1828)

Plate 16: Aborigines with spears attacking Europeans in a rowing boat

in the Lycett Album c.1820


Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an2962715-19

Governor Arthur’s Proclamation to the Aborigines c.1829

oil on board; 35.8 x 22.7 cm


Colonial life

Eugene von Guérard (1811–1901)

Natives chasing game 1854


Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Pictures), nla.pic-an2282444-1

William Strutt (1825–1915)

Portrait of John Pascoe Fawkner 1856



William Lewis Roderick (active 1847–1856)

Whaling off the islands of Flores & Palo Comba in the Flores Sea, Indian Ocean (A good

cut) 30 July 1858

incised whalebone and pigment; 30.5 x 66.0 cm


Alexander Weynton (active 1841–1860)

Rescue off Madras 20 October 1851

in Journals, volume 1



Edwin Roper Loftus Stocqueler (1829–1895)

Australian gold diggings c.1855




http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2962715-19







Race to the gold diggings of Australia 1855

coloured paper, metal and linen with wooden box; 14.0 x 18.2 x 4.1 cm


Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (est. 1847)

Colt model pocket revolver, 5 shot, .31 calibre 1849

metal and wood; 11.3 x 25.0 x 3.0 cm

Frank Clune Collection (Pictures), nla.pic-an7969455

Portion of the flag flown by the miners at the Eureka Stockade 1854

cotton in mount, ink; 16.0 x 4.2 cm


Presented by Fred J. Riley

Tom Roberts (1856–1931)

Allegro con brio, Bourke Street West c.1886, reworked 1890

oil on canvas on composition board; 51.2 x 76.7 cm


Charles Louis Gabriel (1857–1927)

Matron Young practising pistol shooting on the Nangus Road, Gundagai, New South

Wales c.1900

glass plate negative; 10.1 x 12.6 cm

Butcher and Bell Collections (Pictures), nla.pic-an8526479-9

William John Wills (1834–1861)

Journal of trip from Cooper Creek towards Adelaide 23 April–late June 1861

pencil on ledger paper; 39.0 x 12.0 cm

Papers of Burke and Wills Expedition, 1860–1861


Attributed to Batchelder & O’Neill, Melbourne (active 1857–1863)

William Landsborough with his native guides Jack Fisherman and Jemmy c.1862

albumen silver print, velvet, glass and leather; 12.0 x 16.0 cm


The Victorian Exploration Expedition: the Continent Crossed: Death of Burke and Wills:

their Remains Found

Melbourne: The Argus, 3 November 1861

printed; 33.3 x 15.9 cm

Papers of Burke and Wills Expedition, 1860–1861


William Oswald Hodgkinson (1835–1900)

Bulla 1861

in Album of Miss Eliza Younghusband, South Australia, 1856–1865


Pictures Collection, nla.pic-vn4189024-s46

William Monop (c.1843–c.1913)









http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4189024-s46

Drawn and coloured by Monop (male): a Ballarruk of Nyeerrgoo (Victoria Plains) c.1907

coloured crayon and pencil; 25.3 x 63.5 cm

Papers of Daisy Bates (1863–1951)

Manuscripts Collection, MS 365, Section XII

Tommy McCrae (c.1842–1901)

Drawings by Tommy McCrae, an Aboriginal of the Wahgunyah tribe on the Murray

River 1880

ink on ledger paper; 18.3 x 13.0 x 1.0 cm


Presented by J.R. Bremner through H. Gregory MHR, 27 November 1935

J. Fitzsimons

Aboriginal king plate engraved ‘Tallboy, King of Moorabie’ c.1865

engraved brass; 11.5 x 16.0 cm


George Cherry (1820–1878)

George Rodney Cherry, taken when he was about 20 months old 1856

albumen print; 7.4 x 5.6 cm

George Cherry Collection (Pictures), nla.pic-an25110139


Portrait of Matilda Cherry 1850s

hand-coloured ambrotype; 8.9 x 6.6 cm



George Rodney Cherry, Hobart 1856

albumen print; 14.7 x 21.2 cm


Christina Macpherson (1864–1936)

Waltzing Matilda, with lyrics by A.B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson and music by Christina

Macpherson c.1895

ink and pencil; 30.3 x 49.2 cm


Presented by the Bartlam-Roulston family, 2008

Christina Macpherson (1864–1936)

Banjo Paterson’s lyrics to Waltzing Matilda c.1895

ink; 20.4 x 12.7 cm


Presented by Joan Macrae on behalf of Macpherson descendants, 1996








Marian Ellis Rowan (1848–1922)

Freycinetia marginata with brown butterfly 1916

watercolour and gouache; 75.9 x 56.0 cm


Sir Edmund Barton (1849–1920)

Draft of a bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia, as adopted by the National

Australasian Convention, 9 April 1891, with annotations 1897–1898

typescript and pencil; 24.5 x 15.4 cm

Papers of Sir Edmund Barton

Manuscripts Collection, nla.ms-ms51-6-990

Tom Roberts (1856–1931)

Sketch for opening of federal parliament 1901

oil on academy board; 30.3 x 45.6 cm


Australia in the 20th century

H.M. Burton

A call from the Dardanelles

Sydney: S.T. Leigh and Company Lithographic Printers, 1915

colour lithograph; 102.0 x 76.2 cm

Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an7697011-1

Roger Cameron (composer) and Chas Ridgway (lyrics)

Daddy’s in the Dardanelles: Stirring patriotic story ballad

Melbourne: Dinsdales, 1916


Music Collection, nla.mus-an5420374

Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (1885–1952)

The Gallipoli letter 1915

typescript and ink; 21.6 x 34.3 cm

Papers of Keith Arthur Murdoch


Presented by Rupert Murdoch, 1975

Frank Hurley (1885–1962)

The morning after the first battle of Passchendaele showing Australian infantry wounded

around a blockhouse near the site of Zonnebeke railway station, 12 October 1917

1940s–1962

gelatin silver print; 54.2 x 48.6 cm



http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms51-6-990



http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an5420374



H.E.C. Robertson Ltd and William Brooks & Co. Ltd (lithographers)

The Aussies Estate, Willoughby

Sydney: 1918

lithograph; 89.4 x 57.4 cm

Ferguson Collection (Maps), nla.map-lfsp3170

Nora Heysen (1911–2003)

Self-portrait c.1932



Recent acquisition

Nora Heysen (1911–2003)

Letter to her parents London, 19 May 1936

ink; 25.4 x 19.8 cm

Papers of Hans Heysen (1877–1968)

Manuscripts Collection, nla.ms-ms5073-2-1x

Hans Heysen (1877–1968)

Letter to Nora Heysen 21 June 1936

ink; 25.4 x 19.8 cm

Papers of Nora Heysen (1911–2003)


Bequeathed by Nora Heysen, presented by Lou Klepac, 2004

The Royal Mint

Albert Medal (Second Class) presented in the name of His Majesty King George V to

Neighbour an Aboriginal Native of the Roper River for Gallantry in Saving Life on the

1st February 1911

bronze, enamel and ribbon; 5.0 x 4.0 x 1.2 cm


W. Pedersen

Portrait of Aya-I-Ga (Neighbour) wearing the Albert Medal, Government House, Darwin

16 December 1912

gelatin silver print; 19.6 x 14.9 cm


A family living in a cliff-side cave during the Great Depression, Kurnell, Sydney 1930s

gelatin silver prints; 7.0 x 11.6 cm, 11.7 x 6.9 cm and 6.2 x 10.8 cm

Pictures Collection, nla.pic-vn3706012, nla.pic-vn3705987, nla.pic-vn3706027

Recent acquisition

Douglas Shenton Annand (1903–1976)

‘Venetian Nights’, Sydney Harbour, Australia's 150th Anniversary 1938

Australian National Travel Association: 1937



http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-lfsp3170


http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms5073-2-1x








Charles Ulm (1897–1934)

Logbook of the Southern Cross on the first trans-Pacific flight 31 May–9 June 1928


Papers of Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935)


Sir Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935) and Charles Ulm (1897–1934)

Notes passed between the cockpit and the navigating cabin during the Southern Cross

trans-Pacific flight 31 May–9 June 1928

pencil; 12.9 x 12.6 and 7.5 x 16.6 cm

Papers of E.A. and V.I. Crome


Sydney Smith

Flyer titled ’Urgent Notice’ with text in English, Malay and Chinese 15 November 1935

Singapore: Printed for the Royal Air Force, 1935

lithograph; 21.8 x 17.0 cm

Papers of Charles Kingsford Smith (1897–1935)


Stanley J. McAlister (1903–1981)

Imaginary Christmas Day staff menu, Kranji prisoner-of-war Hospital, Singapore 1944

pencil and coloured pencil; 21.0 x 17.3 cm


Stanley J. McAlister (1903–1981)

Dreaming of home 1942–1945

pencil and coloured pencil; 32.5 x 20.2 cm


Donald Friend (1915–1989)

Diaries of Donald Friend: Disasters of war (Desastres de la Guerra), volume 9 1943

mixed media on paper; 24.8 x 41.0


Donated by Emeritus Professor David de Long, 2010

Donald Friend (1915–1989)

Diaries of Donald Friend: Disasters of war (Desastres de la Guerra), volume 14 1944

mixed media; 24.8 x 41.0 cm


Donated by Emeritus Professor David de Long, 2010

C. F. Rojo and Sons Pty Ltd, Melbourne (cabinetmakers)

Relief map of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Development 1949

silver plate and wood; 40.7 x 36.3 x 17.5 cm

Maps Collection, nla.map-remo1





http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-remo1

Jørn Utzon (1918–2008)

Architect’s model for the geometry of the Sydney Opera House shells 1961

paint, wood and letraset type; 29.5 x 88.8 x 8.0 cm


Presented by Professor H. Ingham Ashworth

John Olsen (b.1928)

Manuscript of Salute to Five Bells: John Olsen’s Opera House journal, page 4C 1971–1973

watercolour, ink and collage; 104.2 x 84.0 cm


Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)

Notebook containing the manuscript of Five Bells c.1930s


Papers of Kenneth Slessor


Grace Cossington-Smith (1892–1984)

Pony in the bush

in Fully bound: Over to Hal Missingham: A tribute with love & affection 1971

coloured pencil; 378 x 570 cm

Papers of Hal Missingham (1906–1994)


Patrick White (1912–1990)

Unpublished manuscript for ‘The hanging garden’ 1980s

ink; 33.0 x 40.5 cm

Papers of Patrick White


Recent acquisition

L’Aiglon (France)

Beret c.1985

wool felt; 4.0 x 25.5 x 26.0 cm



Recent acquisition

Martin Wells (Sydney)

Patrick White’s glasses c.1985

plastic, metal and glass; 15.5 x 7.5 x 3.0 cm



Recent acquisition








Judith Wright (1915–2000)

Manuscript for Rockpool c.1985

ink; 25.0 x 20.3 cm

Papers of Judith Wright

Manuscripts Collection nla.int-nl40232-sc9

David Malouf (b.1934)

Manuscript for Johnno 1967 and 1970–1971

typescript and ballpoint pen; 25.2 x 20.4 cm

Papers of David Malouf


Tim Winton (b.1960)

Manuscript for Cloudstreet 1991

ink; 29.5 x 21.0 cm

Papers of Tim Winton


Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Tim Winton, 1992

Azaria Chamberlain’s hospital identity anklet 1980

plastic, ballpoint pen on coloured card and metal; 1.9 x 6.0 cm

Papers of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton


Azaria Chamberlain’s birth details 1980

ink on card; 20.2 x 12.7 cm



Lindy Chamberlain (b.1948)

Strike statement from Darwin Correctional Centre December 1985

ink; 29.7 x 21.0 cm



Airline ticket and boarding pass 9 February 1986

original and carbon copy paper; 8.2 x 18.6 cm and 8.2 x 38.3 cm



Good-luck message from the Ansett crew 9 February 1986

ink; 21.0 x 15.0 cm



http://nla.gov.au/nla.int-nl40232-sc9

Edward Koiki Mabo (1936–1992)

Diary 1992

ink; 30.4 x 42.5 cm

Papers of Edward Koiki Mabo: the Mabo Case Manuscripts


Acquired from Mrs Bonita Mabo in 1994



East-north-east shoreline of Murray Island looking west-south-west 1980s

ink, coloured felt-tip and highlighter pen; 20.4 x 32.5 cm

Papers of Bryan Keon-Cohen: the Mabo Case Manuscripts




Self portrait c.1975

wash on white ground on masonite; 25.3 x 20.2 cm


Anne Zahalka (b. 1957)

Cronulla, jewel of the shire 2010

digital print; 89.5 x 64.6 cm


Recent acquisition

NLA to Z

Sir Ernest Shackleton (editor), George Marston (illustrator)

Aurora australis

Antarctica: 1908

27.2 x 37.0 cm

Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Australian Rare Books), nla.aus-vn855596

Xuanzang (translator)

Da ban ruo bo luo mi duo jing

China: 1162 edition

500.0 cm x 30.0 cm approx.

Asian Collection, nla.gen-vn934588

The Canberra Times, vol. 1, no. 1, Friday 3 September 1926

Canberra: Federal Capital Press of Australia Ltd, 1926

ink; 56.4 x 44.5 cm

Newspapers Collection, nla.gov.au/nla.news-title11







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Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) (artist), Benedictus Chelidonius (c.1460–1521) (author)

The expulsion from the Garden of Eden in Little passion (Passio Christi)

Nuremberg: Albertu Durer, 1511

woodcut and print


El Dorado Surfers Paradise

Queensland: Read Press, c.1960

colour print; 17.8 x 12.0 cm

Ephemera Collection, nla.aus-vn1075968-1

The most fabulous resort in the South Pacific

Queensland: S.H. & Co. Print, c.1965

colour print; 21.2 x 9.3 cm

Ephemera Collection, nla.aus-vn1072443-1

The arrest of Christ, folio 114 recto, in facsimile of The Book of Kells

Lucerne, Switzerland: Fine Art Facsimile Publishers of Switzerland, 1990


Presented by Audrey and Frank Peters, 2001

Single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, Book of Leviticus, chapters vi–vii

Mainz: c.1453–1455

print on paper; 39.1 x 28.4 cm


Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) (author), attributed to Abraham Bosse (1604-c.1676) (artist)

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill

London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St Pauls Churchyard, 1651

27.2 x 36.5 cm

Overseas Rare Books Collection, RBq 320.1 HOB

Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

The Iliad of Homer, vol. 1

London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintott between the Temple-Gates, 1715

29.0 x 45.7 cm

Clifford Collection (Overseas Rare Books), nla.gen-vn2474940

Albert Francis Lenertz (1891–1943)

Aeoroplane Jelly advertising jingle

West Ryde: Aeroplane Jelly Co., c.1958–1969

ink on paper; 24.0 x 19.0 cm and 26.0 x 20.0 cm

Music Collection, MUS N mbb 784.68641864 A252


http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn1075968-1

http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn1072443-1




William Morris (1834–1896) (designer), Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) (illustrator) and

F.S. Ellis (editor)

The Romance of Sir Degrevant

London: Kelmscott Press, 1897

21.0 x 29.4 cm

Sir Brian Hone Collection (Overseas Rare Books), nla.gen-vn1125692

Pancabrahma lontar c.1900

wood, palm leaves and coins; 22.0 x 33.0 cm


Jane Austen (1775–1817)

Letter to her sister Cassandra Austen 13 Queen Square, Bath, England, 11 June 1799

ink on paper; 22.7 x 18.5 cm

Petherick Collection (Manuscripts), MS 760, Binder 1

Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514) (author), Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (d.1494) and Michael

Wolgemut (1434–1519) (artists)

The sanctification of the seventh day (ff. 5v-6r)

in The Nuremberg chronicle (Liber cronicarum)

Nuremberg, Germany: Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493

47.0 x 63.0 cm

Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Overseas Rare Books), nla.gen-vn1539285

Edward Abbott (1801–1869)

The English and Australian cookery book: Cookery for the many, as well as for the upper

ten thousand

London: 1864

19.0 x 28.5 cm

Australian Rare Books Collection, nla.aus-vn4511474

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

Pierrot, conductor of the orchestra (Pierrot Chef D’Orchestre)

Juan-les-Pins, Côte D’Azur: 1920

pochoir print; 31.0 x 24.0 cm

Edition 50/100

Dr John Power Collection (Pictures), PIC S6629-S6638

Dr John Joseph Wardell Power (1881–1943)

5th July, 1930s in Bruges, sketchbook no. 13

gouache and watercolour; 11.0 x 32.5 cm

Dr John Power Collection (Pictures), PIC R8500-R8550





King George VI and Queen Elizabeth amid bomb damage at Buckingham Palace 1940

photographic print, ink and print on card; 14.9 x 37.8 cm

Manuscripts Collection, MS 4936 Box 568

Queen Elizabeth II in Coronation robes with her family 1953

photographic print, ink and print on card; 25.3 x 40.3 cm


The royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer 1981

ink and print on card; 21.5 x 30.4 cm


The Queen and Prince Philip with their grandchildren 1987

ink and print on card; 20.4 x 33.8 cm


Jim Sharman (1945–) and Richard O’Brien (1942 –)

Screenplay for The Rocky Horror Picture Show – page 20 showing ‘The Time Warp’

18 July 1974

typescript and pen on paper; 28.0 x 21.7 cm

Papers of Jim Sharman

Manuscripts Collection, MS Acc09.028

Mick Rock (1948- )

The time warp cast from The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1974, (printed 1978)

type C colour photograph; 20.2 x 25.4cm

Papers of Jim Sharman

Manuscripts Collection, MS Acc09.028

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

The Merchant of Venice from the First Folio: Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories,

& Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies

London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623

30.5 x 20.5 cm

Overseas Rare Books Collection, RBRS 11

Joint proclamation by the eastern king (Yang Xiuquing)(d.1856) and western king (Xiao

Chaogui)(d.1852) (Zhen tian ming Tai ping tian guo) 1 May 1853

ink; 95.0 x 151.8 cm

London Missionary Society Collection (Asian Collection), nla.gen-vn2051312

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892)

Matsushima no Tsubone writing a letter, from the series Mirror of beauties past and

present (Kokon hime kagami) 1875–1876

woodcut on hosho paper; 36.4 x 25.0 cm

Asian Collection, nla.pic-vn4738379

Recent acquisition



Illumination of St George slaying a dragon

in Book of hours

Flemish, possibly Bruges: c.1450

bound manuscript on vellum, leather binding

20.5 x 15.5 cm

Clifford Collection (Manuscripts), MS 1097/9

Heinrich Institoris (1430–1505), Jakob Sprenger (c.1437–1495)

The Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum)

Speyer, Germany: Peter Drach, c.1492

21.3 x 29.0 cm

Overseas Rare Books Collection, RBRS 2/2

Soren Hansen, Jesper Jenson (authors), Berit Thornberry (translator)

The little red school book

Adelaide: A. Taylor in association with Brolga Books, 1972

ink on paper; 20.5 x 15.5 cm

Australian Collection, N 371.8 H249

Soren Hansen, Jesper Jenson (authors), Berit Thornberry (translator)

The little red school book

Kensington: Thor Publications, 1973

woodblock print; 36.5 x 24.7 cm

Australian Collection, nla.aus-vn4512714

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

Plate I, The comedy-ballet of marionnettes, as performed by the troupe of the Théâtre-

Impossible, posed in three drawings

in The Yellow Book: An illustrated quarterly, vol. 2, July 1894

21.0 x 33.0 cm


F.J. Bertuch (1747-1822)

Picturebook for children: containing an enjoyable collection of animals, plants, flowers,

fruits (Das Bilderbuch fur Kinder …), vol. 3, no. 80, plate 64

Weimar: im Verlag des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1798

27.5 x 46.5 cm

Overseas Rare Books Collection, nla.aus-vn978701

Recent acquisition




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