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The Queen Victoria Building was designed in Romanesque style by George McRae and completed in 1898. Built as a market incorporating coffee shops, a concert hall, and showrooms, the building fell into disrepair until it was restored in 1986.…

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The Queen Victoria Building was designed in Romanesque style by George McRae and completed in 1898. Built as a market incorporating coffee shops, a concert hall, and showrooms, the building fell into disrepair until it was restored in 1986. Features…

Henry Lawson (1867-1922), one of Australia's most famous poets, and a symbol for the Australian Nationalism Movement, wrote this poem in 1910 (MS). The meaning is unclear but Lawson writes of a mythical kingdom of Virland. It could be an allegory of…

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 Malory’s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte d’Arthur. Upon…

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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.…

The Pugin Foundation is a not for profit organisation based in Victoria. Their website is devoted to the works of English architect August Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852). The website has a particular focus on the Pugin-designed churches built in…

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In this article concerning the sale of a yearling racehorse in Melbourne, the sire is identified as a horse named “Medieval Knight”. The colt was offered for sale by Alan Lechte in Messrs William Inglis and Son’s yearling catalogue…

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The Priest’s Lodge in the small rural Western Australian town of Morawa was built to the design of Monsignor John Cyril Hawes as accommodation for visiting priests. The diminutive stone building was completed in 1933 and features Gothic…
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