Horses - Australia

Date: 1914

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-064-013

Description: A cobbled courtyard viewed through a square archway. A man is sweeping the yard, another stands at the foot of a flight of stairs on the left, and another leads a horse on the right. First state Other Titles - New Veterinary Institute, LaTrobe Street Inscriptions: Signed Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching with aquatint, 170 x 122 mm (platemark) on sheet 228 x 174 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1903

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-032-001

Description: A series of comic drawings showing a sailor attempting to mount and ride a wild horse, to the amusement of onlookers. Probably drawn for the Evening News newspaper, Sydney Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Lionel Lindsay del Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink with Chinese white, 614 x 452 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1883-1884

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3629

Description: Consular records, concerning subjects such as shipwrecks, attacks on blackbirders, the supply of Australian horses for the French army, cases involving individuals and ships. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: ca1948

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-597

Description: Family and friends. Australian cities and countryside. Women's fashions and current styles and makes of cars. Public buildings and houses. Australian holidays. Quantity: 1 album(s).

Date: 1884

From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3630

Description: Consular records, mainly re New caledonia and New Hebrides issues, including the Marquis de Rays case, extraditions, consular appointments, horse for the French army, and the question of recidivists and relapsed criminals. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1912

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-065-003

Description: The front garden of an old house. Barrels are stacked on the right, and another is in a wheeled cart on the left, beyond a shed or stables. A man is brushing a horse down in front of the shed on the left. A dog lies asleep on the grass at the right. A copy held by National Gallery of Australia is catalogued under the title Ashmore House, Old Kent Street, demolished 1912, and dated 1917. The edition size is suggested as 30, or possibly 50 Other Titles - Ashmore House, Old Kent Street, demolished 1912 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed inside plate-mark; also signed outside plate-mark lower left. Titled Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 138 x 176 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 206 x 214 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1897-1904

From: Trevor, Charles Edward Hill-Trevor, 3rd Baron, 1863-1950 :Photographs of New Zealand and Cook Islands compiled during Vice-regal term of Lord Ranfurly

By: Boscawen, John Hugh, 1851-1937; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Pulman (Firm); Shepherd, Cromwell, active 1903-1934

Reference: PA1-f-142

Description: Charles Hill-Trevor's personal album of the time he spent as personal secretary to Lord Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand. It records the New Zealand contingents sent to the South African war and public events, personalities and patriotic entertainments associated with that enterprise. Visits to Government houses in Australia record other governors, officials and official residences. On one occasion in Melbourne a New Zealand versus Australia polo match was played. Hill-Trevor shows an interest in Māori, wildlife conservation (including the bird sanctuary on Resolution Island), and the sports of fishing, polo and horsemanship. There are photographs of members of the Ranfurly family and their principal servants as well as the Governor engaged in official functions such as opening the Kaiapoi council offices and laying the foundation stone of the Veterans Home, Mt Roskill, Auckland in 1903. Also photographs relating to the play 'The Geisha'. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1916

By: Lindsay, Lionel Arthur (Sir), 1874-1961; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-064-012

Description: A street corner with a horse drinking from a horse-trough in the foreground, shops and other buildings in the background. Two of the shops are Sydney Syne, Signwriter and Hall & Co. A horse and cart with driver are on the right, in front of a tall shaded building Edition of 50, according to the catalogue record for a copy held by the National Gallery of Australia Other Titles - Ancienne regime Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed within plate Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 155 x 146 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 225 x 288 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 19-20 November 1860

From: Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901: Australian sketches. 1860-1861

By: Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901

Reference: E-337-f-003

Description: A low bridge across a river amidst tall trees. A man leads a horse across the bridge. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 326 x 525 mm in album

Date: 30 November 1860

From: Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901: Australian sketches. 1860-1861

By: Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901

Reference: E-337-f-010

Description: A man leading a horse on a track to the left, a river below and bush-clad hills. The commissioned drawing ‘Castlehill. East of Mt. Wellington on the Wonongatta or Upper Mitchell, 1862’ is based on this sketch. Other Titles - Castlehill, from memory. Wonnangatta Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 328 x 528 mm in album

Date: 1841

By: Griffith, E, active 1841

Reference: A-133-008

Description: A scene on a broad track through an Australian forest. Two uniformed Border Police are resting, one seated at the foot of a tree, the other armed, standing alongside one of three horses. Two horses are saddled, the central one is loaded up as the packhorse. The men wear uniforms of broad-brimmed hats, dark brown uniforms with red stand-up colours, wrists and broad stripes down the outer trouser legs. The Border Police operated on the borders of New South Wales with Queensland and Victoria Inscriptions: Verso - Title and signature in pencil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper, 109 x 193 mm