Archive for: August 2011

  1. The Home

    The Home: An Australian Quarterly was first published in February 1920. Published by Art in Australia Ltd, The Home’s target market was Australian middle-class women readers. It was …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/08/29/the-home

  2. ‘Laird of Art’

    This eclectic bag from the Grainger Museum’s Costume and Textiles collection was made by Percy Grainger at the age of 12. After his mother, Rose, died, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/08/25/laird-of-art

  3. September: The Month of Print at the Baillieu Library

    The 2011 international print conference, ‘IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoint’, is being hosted by Monash University from 27 to 30 September. Prior to the conference, as …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/08/16/september-the-month-of-print-at-the-baillieu-library

  4. MUM

    Melbourne University Magazine, or MUM, was a student magazine, produced annually and sometimes several times a year. It was published from 1907 until 1979 and included …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/08/02/492

  5. Early Image of Sydney

    Augustus Earle (c.1790-c.1839) was the son of James Earle (1761-1796), an American artist. Following his father’s profession, the younger Earle exhibited for the first time at …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/08/01/augustus-earle