Sideboard
Maker & role
Stonehill Restorations, Manufacturer
Production date
1984
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Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 93 x W: 198 x D: 57cm (H: 930 x W: 1980 x D: 570mm)
Credit line
Commission, 1984
Elizabeth Farm Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Elizabeth Farm Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Description
Made for the furnishing of Elizabeth Farm as a house museum, this sideboard is a reproduction of an original c1820 Macarthur piece, provenanced to Belgenny Cottage the home farm of Camden Park and original residence of that property. At the time of the reproduction’s commission in 1984 the sideboard was owned by Mrs Elizabeth Rothe (nee Macarthur Onslow). Mrs Elizabeth Rothe allowed the copying of the sideboard by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW (later MHNSW) for Elizabeth Farm in 1984 as part of a policy of presenting the interiors with replica Macarthur furniture. In 1994 under the terms of her will she bequeathed the original and it was accessioned as EF94/2.
On the back of the original is a label probably composed by Mrs Rothe that outlines its provenance: "This sideboard was made from local cedar for John Macarthur. It was part of the furnishing in the [Belgenny] cottage on the Camden estate where he spent much of his time while the Mansion House [Camden Park house] was being built. After John Macarthur’s death in 1874 [recte 1834] and the completion of the Mansion House in the same year, the estate office was established at the Mansion House and it was used there as an office desk. The desk was left at the Mansion House when the Estate Office was moved to John Macarthur’s cottage at the Home Farm in 1932. It was restored and given by General J. W. Macarthur Onslow to his daughter Elizabeth, in 1935".
On the back of the original is a label probably composed by Mrs Rothe that outlines its provenance: "This sideboard was made from local cedar for John Macarthur. It was part of the furnishing in the [Belgenny] cottage on the Camden estate where he spent much of his time while the Mansion House [Camden Park house] was being built. After John Macarthur’s death in 1874 [recte 1834] and the completion of the Mansion House in the same year, the estate office was established at the Mansion House and it was used there as an office desk. The desk was left at the Mansion House when the Estate Office was moved to John Macarthur’s cottage at the Home Farm in 1932. It was restored and given by General J. W. Macarthur Onslow to his daughter Elizabeth, in 1935".
Accession number
EFR87/1-1:4
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