1883 Sunday at the National Gallery

Documentation

This wood engraving, published in The Australasian Sketcher, 4 June 1883, provides an exciting if possibly exaggerated view of the tumultuous Sunday crowd at the NGV, hurrying past the two zinc lions formerly guarding the entrance, in their eagerness to see Herbert Moses bringing down the Tablets of the Law (acquired in 1878) and the

1862 (or later) Queen’s Hall

Documentation

This photograph was presumably taken in the 1860s or 1870s, and cannot date from any earlier than 1862, since it includes on the balcony at the back the Burmese Buddha acquired in that year: see now  introduction to Asian art, with a detail of this photo. Housed on the first floor of the Melbourne Public