Brief description
The WAM Maritime History Artworks Collection features over 180 rare and often unknown original artworks recording or representing aspects of Western Australian maritime interactions, by artists as diverse as harbourmasters to war correspondents, and range from the 1830s to the present day. This collection of artworks includes oil paintings, etchings, watercolours, curios, sea chests, pearl shell, scrimshaw, textiles, and wood carvings.Full description
The focus of the artworks collection are those created by people with maritime professions or backgrounds that document voyages and maritime experiences, ship portraits, ports, and which generally document Western Australia's maritime history. Together the collectioon records the development of WA as a maritime colony, providing irreplaceable records of colonial activity before the birth and acceptance of photography, and continues on to provide an often challenging depiction of subsequent maritime activities.Notes
Item descriptions, specifications, images, conservation & location history available through MHRD (WA Museum Maritime History department Integrated Collection Management System).Data time period: 1880 to 1999
Spatial Coverage And Location
text: International
text: Western Australia
Subjects
20th and 21st Centuries |
Art objects |
Artworks |
Carvings |
Chests |
Etching |
Etchings |
Painting |
Prints |
Scrimshaw |
Textile crafts |
Textiles |
Watercolour painting |
art |
artwork |
carving |
decorative art |
fabric design |
marine & waterway places & structures |
maritime history |
paintings |
vessels (watercraft) |
water transport |
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