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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Portrait of Captain John Hunter

Goods and chattels

About Face article

I have been reading systematically through the ads in the earliest issues of the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, such a rich vein of information about certain aspects of daily life in Regency Sydney.

Portrait of Captain John Hunter
Portrait of Captain John Hunter
Portrait of Captain John Hunter

Portrait of Captain John Hunter, 1792

Daniel Orme after Robert Dighton
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2008

Part of the crew of His Majesty's Ship Guardian endeavouring to escape in the boats

South-bound and down

Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013

Joanna Gilmour recounts the story of ill-fated sea voyages in the early stages of the Antipodean colony.

Ruby, Norman, Pearl, Percy, Reg, Bill Dyson and Mary in Creswick garden
Ruby, Norman, Pearl, Percy, Reg, Bill Dyson and Mary in Creswick garden
Ruby, Norman, Pearl, Percy, Reg, Bill Dyson and Mary in Creswick garden

Ruby, Norman, Pearl, Percy, Reg, Bill Dyson and Mary in Creswick garden, c. 1899

an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Melodrama...
Melodrama...
Melodrama...

Melodrama..., c. 1900

an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Robert Hunter, July 1978
Robert Hunter, July 1978
Robert Hunter, July 1978

Robert Hunter, July 1978, 1978 (printed 2012)

Robert Rooney
Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Ruby Hunter

The Legend of Ruby and Archie

Devotion

A bond in song

Riverboat Rod & Ruby, 2022 James Bugg

Riverboat Rod & Ruby

James Bugg
Image
Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk

Ruby (left view)

Shea Kirk
Image
Evie and Ruby at The Bend, Dec. 2019 Christopher Hopkins

Evie and Ruby at The Bend, Dec. 2019

Christopher Hopkins
Image
Ruby James (Inma), 2019 Adele Wilkes

Ruby James (Inma)

Adele Wilkes
Image
Ruby, 2008 by Chris Budgeon

Ruby, 2008

by Chris Budgeon
Image
The Hunter

The Hunter

Clean shaven

Towards the end of the eighteenth century, ideas about equality and liberty had begun to filter through to fashion.

Semi self portrait, Hunter Valley
Semi self portrait, Hunter Valley
Semi self portrait, Hunter Valley

Semi self portrait, Hunter Valley, 1992 (printed 2000)

David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001

The Lino Hunter, 2015 by Janet Tavener

The Lino Hunter, 2015

by Janet Tavener
Image
Frog Hunter, Damien Wurrkidj, 2011 by Matthew Abbott

Frog Hunter, Damien Wurrkidj, 2011

by Matthew Abbott
Image
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