Summary
'Jottings at the Melbourne Exhibition', a page of black & white engravings published in the newspaper The Australian Sketcher, 6 November 1880.
Physical Description
Pages 291-292. Page 292 page features seven illustrations, including a group of sailors in discussion, men & women seated at tables in a dining room, a concert, a Chinese man being weighed, a group of people seated inside a kiosk, a woman being pushed around the exhibition in a chair, and a man demonstrating a band saw.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Purchase
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Publisher
Wilson & McKinnon, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 Nov 1880
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Place & Date of Event
Museum Collection, Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 Oct 1880 - 30 Apr 1881
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Inscriptions
Top margin, p. 291: THE AUSTRALASIAN SKETCHER Captions to illustrations: "L'homme qui rit"; 15 stone/ "Welly good"; AFTERNOON CONCERT; 6D DINING ROOM; One WAY/ of doing/ the/ Exhibition; THE BAND SAW; Sailors of the Nautilus, Finistere & Europa/ at the Exhibition Bottom margin: JOTTINGS AT THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION.
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Brand Names
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Classification
Public events, Melbourne international exhibition 1880, Media coverage
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Category
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Discipline
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
295 cm (Width), 405 cm (Height)
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Keywords
Exhibitions, Exhibitions: Melbourne International, 1880-1881, Illustrations, Newspapers, Royal Exhibition Building, World Fairs
