The exhibition Treasures of Newcastle from the Macquarie era features rarely seen artworks and maps telling the fascinating story of the development of the early colony to Newcastle. It also features the recently discovered Wallis album and the iconic Macquarie Collectors Chest which will return to Newcastle for the first time in 195 years to be displayed beside the Newcastle Chest – a contemporary response. Find out more at www.nag.org.au

1. The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
The Newcastle Chest 2010
Cabinetmaker Scott Mitchell
Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection

2. The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
open to show painted panels by Joseph
Lycett
The Newcastle Chest 2010 open to show
painted panels by Philip Wolfhagen

3. Fish panel by Joseph Lycett from
The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
Waiting for trade winds 2010
by Philip Wolfhagen
from The Newcastle Chest 2010

4. The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818 open to
show painted panels by Joseph Lycett and insect
compartments
The Newcastle Chest 2010 open to show painted
panels by Philip Wolfhagen and
insects drawers by Maria Fernanda Cardoso

5. Insect compartment from
The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
Dead and green leaves 2010
by Maria Fernanda Cardoso
from The Newcastle Chest 2010

6. Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818 open
to show painted panels, upper bird tray,
small bird and shell drawers
Newcastle Chest 2010 open to show painted
panels by Philip Wolfhagen, bird drawer by Louise
Weaver and shell drawers by Esme Timbery

7. Upper bird tray from The Macquarie
Collectors’ Chest c1818
Arena 2010 by Louise Weaver
from The Newcastle Chest 2010

8. The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
open to show seaweed and algae
drawers and fish panel by Joseph Lycett
The Newcastle Chest 2010
open to show shell drawers by Esme Timbery

9. Seaweed and algae drawers from The
Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
Macquarie slippers and boomerangs 2010 by
Esme Timbery from The Newcastle Chest 2010

10. The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
open to show painted panels, lower bird
drawer and bottom drawer
The Newcastle Chest 2010
open to show shell drawers by Esme Timbery
and bottom drawer by Lionel Bawden

11. Bottom drawer from
The Macquarie Collectors’ Chest c1818
Bower 2010 by Lionel Bawden
from The Newcastle Chest 2010