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Article: Notes on Barry and the origins of the picture collection.
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- The La Trobe Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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It is difficult for such of us as have emigrated hither from Europe, to conceive the disadvantages under which the rising generation will labour in respect to the familiarity with objects worthy of admiration in architecture, painting, statuary, and other branches of art ...
Argus, 9 November 1861
UNTANGLING THE threads of the histories of the Library's collections has often been based on the discovery, and re-discovery, of interesting things no longer collected, and speculation on why and how they came to be there. For the Picture Collection many of these threads lead back to the 1859 plans for the Museum of Art in the Public Library. Some years ago, ...