Historical information
Edgar James MAYBERY (1887-1966)
Best known for her etchings.
Physical description
Etching
Mounting & framing
Conservation mount with timber frame
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Edgar James MAYBERY (1887-1966)
Best known for her etchings.
Etching
Conservation mount with timber frame
jacky ragless, australian studio pottery
Photograph of the black marble Sartori Memorial at Frankinford Cemetery
In Loving Memory of our dear father Nazzaro Sartori who died 31st Dec 1910 Aged 69 Years. Also, our dear mother Charlotte Sartori Who died 30th March 1902 Aged 45 years. Also our uncle Pietro Sartori Who died 25th Nov 1897 Aged 58 years. aged 75 years also his nephew Giosue Pedrini who was accidentally killed at Yandoit 3rd July 1895
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Photograph of the Pedrini Memorial at Frankinford Cemetery
Sacred to the Memory of our dear uncle Vincenzo Pedrini who died at Yandoit 5th Novr 1912 aged 75 years also his nephew Giosue Pedrini who was accidentally killed at Yandoit 3rd July 1895
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Jill and Lloyd Jones ran Golf Lane Pottery in Rye, Victoria.
VIC
Small vessel by Jill Jones.
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daylesford, wombat, tipperary, wombat flat, wombat creek, boiling planning spring, specimen hill, wombat hill, police camp, stanbridge, stanbridge pre-emptive right
This property is known as Sunny South.
'Sunny South, 223 Lyons Street South, Ballarat.
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This property is known as Maremail.
'Maremaul' inLyons Street South, Ballarat under renovation.
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Colour photograph of a weatherboard miners cottage at 216 Dawson Street South, Ballarat
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Colour photographs of at the intersection of Dawson Street South and Skipton Street, Ballarat.
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Sydney LONG (20 August 1871-23 January 1955) Born Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 20 Aug 1871 Sydney Long is best known for his art nouveau inspired depictions of the Australian landscape. Travelling to London in 1910, Long studied printmaking at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and was taught etching by Frank Emanuel and Malcolm Osborne.
Etching
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armstrong street, john hollway & co, nevetts lawyers
barnett building, armstrong street
Colour photograph of a double storey building in Armstrong Street South, Ballarat.
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Photograph of a bluestone cottage with shingle roof.
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Photographs of the original Eureka Stockade Centre, with Eureka sail in place.
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Redbrick church with plaque stating 'Scots church 1890'.
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The Yandoit Church built-in 1884 by Giacomo Satori and served the predominantly local Swiss-Italian community until 1993.
Four people stand outside St John's, Yandoit. Left to right: Gerhard Emmerichs, Bern Emmerichs (Robinson) Bernie Milesi, Rene Saligari (Gervasoni)
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peel st quarry hill, claregervasoni
non-fiction
flight, aeroplane
non-fiction
dorothy wickham, patrick costello, smeaton house
Patrick and Mary Carroll (nee Fitzgerald) in the garden of their home in Holden Street, North Fitzroy.
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This photo was taken during Covid19 lockdown.
Colour Photograph of Lydiard Street looking North.
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Double storey bluestone hotel in Inverleigh, Victoria
inverleigh hotel
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Photograph of Bendigo Cemetery.
bendigo cemetery
Photograph of the Guildford Big Tree around a month after two big limbs dropped.
guildford big tree, guildford
Lidded Ceramic Jar
ceramics, australian studio pottery
Stephen Drew was Nintingbool Potteries Stephen (Steve) Drew studied at the Ballarat Technical Art School (a division of the Ballarat School of Mines) and RMIT. He worked as a secondary school teacher for a short time before setting up Nintingbool Potteries in a bush setting at Smythes Creek, near Ballarat, in 1974. He made a wide range of functional pottery high-fired in stoneware and porcelain, later concentrating on one-off sculptural pieces. Steve Drew was instrumental in setting up the Ballarat Ceramic Group, which operated for twenty years, and is a member of the Golden Plains Art Trail. His pottery mark is recorded as an impressed 'N' in a circle, or an incised 'Drew'.
Bell shaped bottle by Nintingbool Potteries
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Glazed jug with Aboriginal motif and the work 'Hepburn'.
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Garry BISH (1950- ) Born Charlton, Victoria After training as a secondary school art teacher in Melbourne in 1968-69, Gary Bish moved to Bendigo, where he established the Potters Arms Studio in Epsom in 1972 while studying for a Diploma of Art and Design in ceramics at the Bendigo Institute of Technology, graduating in 1974. Establishing an independent studio in Epsom in 1972, Garry Bish has lectured in Ceramics for many years. Bish marks his work with his signature or an impressed 'B' with a stem like a feather, or in later years the Initial GB in a square.
Plate by hand drawn glaze design
ceramics, gary bish, australian studio pottery
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