• Title
  Item 17: Macquarie chair, 1820
• Call number
  XR 21
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1820
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  430597
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - Approx. 88 cm. high - fabric worn - 1 chair with (red cedar) timber legs and backrest and chintz-covered cushioned seat
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Other chairs and a setee in the same set were destroyed by fire in the Public Library storeroom on 5 Apr. 1951
  Joyce Lanyon, Wood Technology Section, reported in 1980 that the wood in the chair is red cedar (toona australis).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824111
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Macquarie furniture, Government House, Windsor, 1820" -- engraved on plaque affixed to top of backrest
• Name
  Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824
  
• Topic
  chairs
  
• Place
  Old Government House (Windsor, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1601718

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