• Title
  Item 16: Travelling trunk, said to have belonged to Lachlan Macquarie [ca. 1808-1821]
• Call number
  XR 48
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  Between 1808 and 1821
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  430598
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 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 - 32 x 64 x 25.5 cm.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright
• 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
• Signatures / 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"" -- written in ink on inside lid
• Conservation note
  
  Trunk was cleaned by external conservator in June 2010 for the Macquarie Exhibition
• Name
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
  
• Topic
  keys
  trunks (luggage)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  India, China, Australia : Trade and Society 1788-1850 - Museum of Sydney
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2010 - October, 2010)
  The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition) - State Library of New South Wales (November, 2010 - March, 2012)

View Media Files

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Show more