Photograph of gold brooch designed by Julius Hogarth originally held at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, 1984

PXB 688

fonds

1984

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909939

1 folder (1 photograph) - 6.5 x 8 cm. inside mount 15 x 13 cm. - colour

Hogarth, Erichsen and Co., were a small jewellery firm operating at 312 George Street, Sydney.

Mounted colour photograph of a brooch, ca. 1860. Gold with gold nugget and milky quartz. Attributed to Hogarth, Erichsen and Co., Sydney, Australia.

It depicts a bouquet of native flora as a wearable item. It shows native per, tree fern and Banksia tied at the stems by a fillet and set with a gold nugget naturally occurring in milky quartz. (Source: Mitchell file).

Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.
Copyright status:: In copyright - created after 1955

Reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

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