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St Peterâ€™s East Window, SCEGGS Great Hall, Darlinghurst, Sydney

An image of the East Window in the Great Hall at Sydney Girls Grammar School (SGEGGS) in Darlinghurst, Sydney. The window was originally installed in St Peterâ€™s church in 1867, but the church has since been incorporated into the School Hall.…

Jack and the Beanstalk, East Devonport

One of three photographs of a house in East Devonport built in the Gothic Revival architectural style. Gothic features of the house include the arched windows and steeped pitch of the roof. This photograph shows a boy, presumably Jack, climbing a…

Tags: arched windows, architecture, domestic, domestic architecture, East Devonport, fairy tale, fairy-tale, folklore, folktale, Gothic, Gothic Revival, Jack and the Beanstalk, Tas, Tasmania

Morgan Le Fay

This watercolour by Australian artist Christian Waller was gifted to the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 1933 by the Women’s Association. It depicts a woman in medieval dress whom the title identifies as Morgan Le Fay. Morgan Le Fay is a…

Virgin of the Offering

This work by French sculptor Émile-Antoine Bourdelle was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia by William Bowmore AO OBE, through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation in 1994. It is a 2.5m tall bronze sculpture of the Virgin…

Tags: Ã‰mile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), Alsace, bronze, Christ, Christianity, Gothic, infant Jesus, Jesus, Madonna, Mary, model, Niederbruck, religious sculpture, Romanesque, SA, sculpture, South Australia, virgin, virgin and child

Baptist Tabernacle church, Perth, Tasmania

One of three photographs of the Baptist Tabernacle church in Clarence Street, Perth, Tasmania. The church was designed by English architect George Fagg and built in 1889 by William Gibson. The church is said to have Indian influence, but Byzantine…

Tags: architecture, Baptist, Baptist Tabernacle, Byzantine, Byzantium, Church, dome, George Fagg, Perth, Tas, Tasmania, William Gibson

Stairwell window at â€˜Glenferrie,â€™ Malvern, Victoria

This commanding stairwell window by Ferguson & Urie (1872) is calculated to reflect the prosperity and good fortune of the original owner, James Fergusson. Fergusson was a Melbourne manufacturing stationer, and was at times a member of the…

Tags: Australiana, blazon, coat-of-arms, colonialism, Emu, Ferguson & Urie, Fergusson coat-of-arms, Glenferrie, James Fergusson, kangaroo, Malvern, medieval design, rose, shamrock, stained glass, symbolism, thistle, Vic, Victoria

Dragon, Perth, Tasmania

One of four photographs of a castle-like building on the Midland Highway in Perth, Tasmania. This one shows a dragon looking over the roof of the castle/house. The house features extensive crenellation and is made of brick.

Tags: architecture, battlements, castle, castles, crenellation, domestic, dragon, house, Perth, residence, Tas, Tasmania

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

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