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Preparing for the Exhibition â€“ Gilding the Dome (Illustration)

An illustration of painters gilding the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. This task was undertaken in association with other contracted repainting and redecorating work in the lead-up to the 1888 Centennial International Exhibition.…

The Centennial International Exhibition

An image of the Royal Exhibition Building during the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888, from the Illustrated Australian News. The Royal Exhibition Building was designed by architect Joseph Reed and completed in 1880. The round-arched…

The Opening of Queen's College

A wood engraving from March 1888 by Samuel Calvert of Queen's College at the University of Victoria. An accompanying article in the Melbourne newspaper The Illustrated Australian News reported on the opening ceremony for the new college.…

Design for the Town Hall, Brunswick

This engraving by Samuel Calvert appeared in The Illustrated Australian News on June 23, 1888. It shows the neo-gothic design for the Town Hall in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.

Tags: architect, architecture, Brunswick, Brunswick town hall, engraving, Gothic, gothic architecture, Gothic building, gothic buildings, Gothic Revival, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Samuel Calvert, The Illustrated Australian News, Town Hall, Vic, Victoria

Upper vestibule window, â€˜Narrapumelap,â€™ Wickliffe, Victoria

An image of a stained glass window at the Narrapumelap homestead in Wickliffe, Victoria. The panelâ€™s outer edge is framed by an eye-catching â€˜floral-rodâ€™ pattern in spiral form. The window is divided into three segments (l, m, r)…

Tags: baronial window, Ferguson & Urie, floral-rod pattern, homestead, initials, John Dixon Wyselaskie, leaf and flower head design, medieval design, Narrapumelap homestead, roses, stained glass, Vic, Victoria, Wickliffe, window

â€˜St Georgeâ€™ Stained Glass Window, Tolarno Hotel, St Kilda

This elaborate staircase window in a converted St Kilda mansion is probably by Ferguson & Urie and dated c.1884. The window depicts a red-cloaked and fully armoured St George standing on the head of a dragon. Images of St George and the Dragon were…

Tags: Armor, Armour, border, dragon, Ferguson & Urie, knight, Melbourne, rose, saint, Saint George, saints, St George, St Kilda, St. George, St. Kilda, stained glass, staircase, Tolarno Hotel, Tudor Rose, Union Jack, valour, Vic, Victoria

â€˜The Seasons window,â€™ Mandeville Hall, Toorak

This staircase â€˜Seasonsâ€™ window at Mandeville Hall in Toorak was designed by David Relph Drape and created by Ferguson & Urie for the original owner, millionaire Joseph Clarke, in 1877. The circular medallions in the centre of the window…

Tags: autumn, country, cupid, David Relph Drape, Diana, Ferguson & Urie, foliage, frieze, harvest, Joseph Clarke, landscape, nature, nostalgia, Romanesque, Saint George, seasons, spring, St George, stained glass, stairwell, summer, Toorak, Vic, Victoria, window, winter

'Golden era of neo-Gothic', Domain Website

This 2010 article by Jenny Brown for the Domain website is about the late nineteenth century Gothic Revival architecture in Melbourne, Victoria. The article focusses on what is now known as the ANZ Gothic Bank on the corner of Collins and Queen…

Tags: ANZ, ANZ Gothic Bank, bank, Domain, English, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Jenny Brown, Melbourne, neo-Gothic, Old Stock Exchange, pointed arch, Safe Deposit, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank, Vic, Victoria, website, William Pitt, William Wardell

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