Rouse Hill Estate
When masks were compulsory
When thinking about the impact of COVID-19, it’s timely to reflect on an earlier pandemic that affected every aspect of life, including at our places
A Gothic Angel
In the drawing room at Rouse Hill your eye is instantly drawn to a small painting on the far wall; a figure of an angel in a shining gilt frame, acquired in the 1870s.
![Owner bound volume of assorted songs, in the collection of Rouse Hill House & Farm, 1850-1864. [music]](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/10/3810c07fd7fc4a78bcb41f48b8597385.jpg)
‘Hearts and Homes’
Little-known today, composer and music publisher John Blockley (1800-1882) was well-represented in the drawing rooms of Sydney in the 19th century
Keeping cool
Shading the face, fanning a fire into a blaze or cooling food, shooing away insects, conveying social status, even passing discreet romantic messages - the use of the fan goes far beyond the creation of a breeze
![[Collection of pencil and watercolour sketches, photographs and ephemera related to the Rouse family of Rouse Hill House] / Thomas Wingate [pictorial material]](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/06/0567f8c50f23494185819ef9578e183d.jpg)
House Music at Your House webinar
A new musical experiment aiming to bring the music of the 19th century into the 21st century
WW1
The Allies in camp music roll
Rouse Hill house boasts a fine pianola, a player piano, which came into the house just a few years before the outbreak of World War I
Baubles, brooches & beads
We wear jewellery as articles of dress and fashion and for sentimental reasons – as tokens of love, as symbols of mourning, as souvenirs of travel
The Rouses of Rouse Hill: a family of music consumers
The sheet music shared online for the House Music at Your House program comes from an extraordinary collection at Rouse Hill Estate
Through a glass darkly
Dated from 1855 to 1867, these pictures were created using the daguerreotype and ambrotype processes, two of the earliest photographic formats invented