1872 Picture Gallery
Picture Gallery, South Wing, Lt Lonsdale Street 1872 Silver albumen photograph SLV H96.160/1794 (transferred from the Victorian Patents Office, 1908) This photograph (one of a pair) documents the appearance of the Public Library’s temporary picture gallery as it appeared between c. 1865 and 1875. Prominent are several of the NGV’s earliest painting acquisitions: Cope Pilgrim Fathers 1856