• Harden Sidney MELVILLE

Torres Strait Canoe and five men at the site of a wreck on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, off Cape Grenville, North East Australia
1874

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Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef

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Seeing what they saw

The River Nile, Van Diemen's Land, from Mr Glover's farm John GLOVER The first cloud William Quiller ORCHARDSON Peonies and head of a woman John RUSSELL The babe is wise Lina BRYANS Man absorbed in landscape John OLSEN Self-portrait Joseph WRIGHT of Derby Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer) A monk with a book TITIAN Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware Robert DOWLING Portrait of an old lady Françoise DUPARC Gasometers at Clichy Paul SIGNAC The red hat William FRATER The pioneer Frederick McCUBBIN Two old men disputing REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn The finding of the True Cross COLA dell'Amatrice Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke William BEECHEY Restaurant Kalam PATUA A lord of the bush Hans HEYSEN Chacmool Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico October Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE Writing cabinet Rene DUBOIS Chair Carlo BUGATTI Spouted pharmacy jar ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer) Anwerlarr anganenty (Big yam Dreaming) Emily Kam Kngwarray Anglo-Indian nauch-girl glass painting INDIAN Collins St, 5p.m. John BRACK Winter, from The four seasons FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer) Swanston Street from the Bridge Henry BURN Dr Will Maloney John RUSSELL Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)