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Portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 2000
Australian Tapestry Workshop, Merrill Dumbrell, Christopher Pyett, Normana Wight
Portrait, warp: cotton No.12 seinetwine; weft: wool and cotton
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2000
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2002
The story behind the commissioning of the tapesty portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Biography
Julia Margaret Cameron was of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century.
1 portrait in the collection
Queen Victoria, 1901
The Illustrated London News after Jean Joseph Benjamin-Constant
Portrait, photogravure on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Queen Victoria
About Face article
Last Sunday I had the privilege of appearing at the Canberra Writers’ Festival in conversation with Julia Baird. The subject of our session was Julia’s recent biography, Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire.
Mrs Cameron and the V&A
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2003
In March 2003 Magda Keaney travelled to London to join the photography section of the Victoria & Albert Museum for three months.
In a good paddock
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.