Newcastle on the Edge – Panoramic Visions of Newcastle on the Coquun Hunter River is an outdoor exhibition of seven (7) panoramas of Mulumbinba – Newcastle dating from the 1812 to the present.
The University of Newcastle will mark History Week with a stunning outdoor exhibition depicting the cultural transformation of the Newcastle Port to tie in with this year’s theme of ‘At the Water’s Edge’.
The exhibition is sponsored by the University of Newcastle’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences and is a collaborative event involving the University, the Maritime Centre and the History Council of New South Wales.
The beautiful panoramas of early Newcastle will be officially launched on Saturday September 6th 2008 by Head of ABC1233 Radio and devoted lover of Novocastrian – Mulumbinban history Philip Ashley-Brown at 10am at the Maritime Centre Honeysuckle.
Newcastle on the Edge will be run at the Maritime Centre during History Week from Saturday 6 – Sunday 14 September 2008.
The exhibition will include:
Panel 1.
Browne 1812 60 x 202cm
Caption: Browne, T.R. (1776 – 1824). Newcastle, in New South Wales, with a distant view of Point Stephen,1812 and View of Hunters River, near Newcastle, New South Wales, 1812. Copper Engraving. Photographer: Bruce Turnbull. Courtesy Newcastle Region Art Gallery.
View of Hunters River, near Newcastle, New South Wales, 1812. Copper Engraving. Nos 5 & 6.
Photographer: Bruce Turnbull. Courtesy Newcastle Region Art Gallery.
Panel 2.
Newcastle 1818 60 x 152cm
Caption: Close, Edward Charles. [Originally incorrectly attributed to Campbell, Sophia, 1777-1833.] Courtesy National Library of Australia.
B. 10m long section
Panel 3.
Close, Edward Charles. [Originally attributed incorrectly to Sophia Campbell] 1821 (60 x 615cm)
Allan Chawner retro-photo-pan-graphic (2008) (60 x 615cm)
Caption: Panorama of Newcastle 1821. Panorama of Newcastle : watercolour drawings by Edward Close. Courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
Below the Aborigines is written
N.B. This Corrobory has no business here as it is never danced in the day-time. Taken at and finished in Newcastle on Hunters River. June 11th 1821. E.C. Close
Full View Panorama (1.35MB) prepared as a 360 Quicktime Panorama by Mr Michael Meany. Be sure to view with the Quicktime Viewer for 360 effect. (No longer functional)
Panel 4.
Rae Newcomon 1849 (60 x 436cm)
Caption: Rae, John, 1813-1900. Newcastle in 1849. Courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
C. 5m long section
Panel 5.
Rae Photo 1878 (60 x 326cm)
Chawner retro-photo-pan-graphic (2008) Rae (60 x 326cm)
Caption: Rae, John, 1813-1900. [Panoramic photograph of Newcastle, 1878-1882, taken from Barker Street, possibly from The Obelisk] — 4 albumen photoprints. From Sketches in New South Wales in the olden time 1842 – 1859 by John Rae, M.A. / album of watercolour panoramas and photographs of watercolour sketches. Courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
Panel 6.
Acknowledgements
“Newcastle on the Edge” : Panoramic Visions of Newcastle on the Coquun – Hunter River
was kindly sponsored by the University of Newcastle’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Thanks to:
Associate Professor Allan Chawner
Cultural Collections of the University of Newcastle Library
Inter Library Loans Team of the University of Newcastle Library
History Week 2008 Committee: Ann Hardy, Evelyn King, Gionni Di Gravio, Dr Victoria Haskins.
History Council of New South Wales
The National Library of Australia
The Newcastle Maritime Centre
The Newcastle Region Art Gallery
The State Library of New South Wales
The University of Newcastle Coal River Working Party