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â€˜The Australian Jubilee Peerage: A Detailed Scheme for the Institution of Various Long-Needed Australian Orders of Nobilityâ€™, The Bulletin, 25 June 1887

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This full-page illustration by the Bulletinâ€™s American-born cartoonist Livingston Hopkins (aka â€˜Hopâ€™), pokes fun at some of Australiaâ€™s prominent political figures. The 25 June 1887 issue of the Bulletin reviewed Queen…

Tags: â€˜pedigree hunting, â€™ Australian politics, Britain, heraldry, honours, Jubilee, knight, knighthood, Livingston York Hopkins (1846-1927), Melbourne, nobility, peerage, political figures, politics, Queen Victoria, social mobility, Vic, Victoria, White Knight of Kerry

â€˜Heraldicâ€™ domestic pattern window, Front entrance, Longerenong homestead, Longerenong, Victoria

This â€˜heraldicâ€™ pattern transom hangs over the doorway at Longerenong homestead in Victoria. Central to the design is a golden Celtic harp on blue shield (c. 13th century) representing owner Samuel Wilsonâ€™s Irish roots. This is…

Tags: Celtic, Ferguson & Urie, floral grid pattern, flowers, harp, heraldry, John Lyon, Longerenong homestead, medieval design, Samuel Wilson, stained glass, Vic, Victoria, window

Dance Review: Romeo and Juliet

Nina Levy’s review of Graeme Murphy’s production of Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet by the Australian Ballet appeared in the online version of The West Australian newspaper on October 12, 2012. It includes a photograph by Jeff…

Tags: Australian Ballet, ballet, dance, Dance Review: Romeo and Juliet, Gothic, Graeme Murphy, Jeff Busby, Nina Levy, Perth, Romeo and Juliet, Sergei Prokofiev, set design, The West Australian, vaulted ceiling, WA, website, Western Australia.

Corpus Christi Procession - The Children of Mary

This black and white photograph held by the Powerhouse Museum portrays children participating in the Feast of Corpus Christi procession at St Patrick's Seminary at Manly, Sydney, in 1932. The annual Feast of Corpus Christi procession celebrates the…

Tags: Children of Mary, Christian, Christianity, Corpus Christi, feast, feast of Corpus Christi, procession, religion, religious, religious procession, saint, Saint Patrick, saints, St Patrick, St. Patrick

"1189. The Crusaders 1915."

A drawing by Fred Leist depicting an Australian soldier of 1915 shaking hands with a Crusader of 1189, with the cross of St George as the backdrop. Whilst the Australian soldier is shirtless and wearing shorts, the Crusader knight wears chain-mail,…

Tags: 1189-1192, chainmail, chivalry, cross, Crusader, Crusades, knight, knighthood, knights, Saint George, St George, St Geroge's Cross, St. George, Third Crusade

The Feigned Death of Juliet

This oil on canvas painting by nineteenth-century artist Frederic Leighton was acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia with funds from the Elder Bequest in 1899. Titled â€˜The Feigned Death of Julietâ€™ it depicts a scene from William…

Pulpit from Christ Church Congregational Church, Launceston, Tasmania

This wooden pulpit was removed from the former Christ Church Congregational Church in Launceston, Tasmania, in 2002 (having originally been in another church building) and is now on display in the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston.…

Tags: Alexander Kidd, Alexander Kidd (Jnr), Christ Church Congregational Church, column, Gothic, Gothic Revival, John Leeming, John West, Launceston, pointed arch, pulpit, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, QVMAG, Tas, Tasmania, tracery

â€˜St Georgeâ€™ window, St Albanâ€™s Anglican church, Highgate

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An image of the ‘Saint George’ stained glass window at St Alban’s Anglican Church, Highgate. This stained glass is one of three windows (the others depicting St Alban and St Michael) located at the rear of the church. It was…

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