Asian art (a preliminary account)
South Indian, 16th/17th-century: Krishna (granite). Presented by Rev.G.Newport 1883 (NGV 60-D1A) One of the more arresting early photographs of the Melbourne Public Library includes a particularly fascinating detail. Dimly visible in the background of the reading room (Queen’s Hall), presiding serenely over the carefully posed gentlemen at their desks, is a statue – not of Sir Redmond