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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

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.…

'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

"Requiescat" by Briton RiviÃ¨re

This oil on canvas painting by English artist Briton Rivière was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales (from the artist) in 1897-1898. Completed in 1888, it depicts an armoured medieval knight lying supine on top of a wooden bed and…

Tags: Armor, Armour, art, bed, bloodhound, breastplate, burial rites, byrnie, chain mail, chainmail, coif, couter, cuisses, death, dog, epitaph, greaves, hauberk, helmet, hood, knight, mail, maille, pauldron, plate armour, poleyn, rerebrace, rest, sabaton, shynbald, soul, vambrace, wreath

An Address On the Occasion of the Naming of Magna Carta Place, Langton Crescent, Canberra

An address made by the Hon. Sir Gerard Brennan at the naming of Magna Carta Place in Canberra. He justifies the naming by arguing that the Magna Carta and the ideologies it represents contribute to the creation of a valuable and "enduring myth [in…

Tags: address, Australian government, Australian law, Australian place names, Canberra, English Law, equity, freedom, legal, Magna Carta, naming, place, place name, place names, SIr Gerard Brennan, speech

Viking Raiders

Amongst the comics and list of pen friends on page 6 of the Supplement in Adelaideâ€™s The Mail newspaper on July 5, 1947, was a copied drawing of a Viking ship under full sail by Brian Bowley, aged 11. Images of Viking-style ships are known…

Tags: Adelaide, Brian Bowley, SA, ship, ships, South Australia, The Mail, viking, vikings

Opossum Gargoyle

This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the face of an opossum. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 and 1941 the plaster cast was used as the template…

Tags: cast, Commemorative Courtyard, gargoyle, medieval architecture, Melbourne, memorial, opossum, plaster cast, plaster model, Ray Ewers, sandstone, sculptor, sculpture, war, war memorial, water, William Leslie Bowles

Koala Gargoyle

This plaster model for a gargoyle depicts the head of a koala. The plaster model was created in the studio of William Leslie Bowles in Melbourne with the assistance of sculptor, Ray Ewers. In 1940 and 1941 the plaster cast was used as the template…

Tags: animal, Australian, Australian War Memorial, Commemorative Courtyard, gargoyle, koala, leslie bowles, medieval architecture, Melbourne, memorial, plaster cast, plaster model, raymond ewers, sandstone, sculptor, sculpture, war, war memorial, water

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