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Laurie Payne, Tour of Camelot, 1966

In this black and white photograph from the Laurie Payne Collection of Theatrical Photographs (held by the National Library of Australia), actor Laurie Payne poses in his costume, a suit of armour, for the musical Camelot. The musical, written by…

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La Belle Dame sans merci, by Arthur Hughes

This painting by English artist Arthur Hughes was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1919 with funds from the Felton Bequest. It portrays a scene fromthe well-known ballad of the same name penned in 1819 by Romantic poet John Keats. The…

How Sir Bedivere cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur.…

Gandalf at the Perth Medieval Fayre

A member of the public dressed as the iconic wizard Gandalf from J. R. R. Tolkienâ€™s Lord of the Rings at the Perth Medieval Fayre. Like the Merlin figure in Arthurian legend, the character of Gandalf is a sage. He harbours power through wisdom…

Crowd outside the Hoyts Century Theatre at the Preview of Camelot, Sydney

In this black and white photograph by J. A. Mulligan, a crowd gathers outside the Hoyts Century Theatre in Sydney on 20 December 1967 to attend a preview of the film Camelot. The film was a screen adaptation of the 1960 musical of the same name by…

Camelot Castle, in the Adelaide Hills

An image of 'Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in…

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Camelot Castle, Adelaide Hills

Image of ‘Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in the …

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthur, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, hotel, hotels, motel, recreation, restaurant, SA, South Australia, tourism, towers, wedding, weddings

Camelot Castle, A Motel and Restaurant in the Adelaide Hills

An image of 'Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in the …

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthur, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, hotel, hotels, motel, recreation, restaurant, SA, South Australia, tourism, towers, wedding, weddings

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