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South Melbourne's "Canvas Town" provided temporary accommodation for the thousands of migrants who arrived each week during the 1850s gold rush. A large crowd outside the Victorian Supreme Court, celebrating the release of the Eureka rebels in 1855
"Canvas Town", South Melbourne in the 1850s, during the gold rush St Vincent Gardens in 1878, Rochester Terrace in the background. Before European settlement, the area now called South Melbourne stood out as largely flat with central hill (where the Town Hall now stands) surrounded by swampy land to the north and south.
Canvas Town, South Melbourne in the 1850s Ballarat's tent city just a couple of years after the discovery of gold in the district. Oil painting from an original 1853 sketch by Eugene von Guerard . There were rumours abroad about the presence of gold in Australia, but Government officials kept all findings secret for fear of disorganising the ...
Young and Jackson Hotel, Melbourne Chloé is an 1875 oil painting by French academic painter Jules Lefebvre . Measuring 260 cm by 139 cm, it depicts the naiad in "Mnasyle et Chloé", [ 1 ] a poem by the 18th-century French poet André Chénier .
The Crossing of the Red Sea is an oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, produced between 1633 and 1634. It depicts the crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites, from chapter 14 of the book of Exodus. It is held at the National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne.
There were several separate camps in the area identified by Bamett and Edgar Thomas Wood, the Melbourne City Council health inspector from 1910 to 1949. [5] Dudley Flats proper was located south of Footscray Road on the banks of the Coal Canal – constructed in the 1880s as an outlet for Moonee Ponds Creek, and to allow barges to unload coal at the locomotive depot.
Collins Street in 1903; most of the building in the foreground still existed in 1955. Collins St., 5 pm is a 1955 painting by Australian artist John Brack.The painting depicts office workers walking along busy Collins Street in Melbourne after finishing work for the day—"Blank-faced office workers hurry by like sleep-walkers, thinking only of the pubs or their homes in the suburbs". [1]
Melbourne was a major city in which stencil art was embraced at an early stage, earning it the title of "stencil capital of the world"; [1] the adoption of stencil art also increased public awareness of the concept of street art. [2]