Casts for the bronze doors at the entrance of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunde...
Casts for the bronze doors at the entrance of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunderlich Ltd.
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[ca. 1940]
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Series 1:
Plaster casts of navigators and explorers on bronze entrance doors of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunderlich Ltd.
Presented by Wunderlich Ltd., January 1973
Series 2:
Plaster casts for the bronze entrance doors of the Mitchell Library, Aboriginal Australians and a Boomerang thrower, ca. 1940 / manufa...
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Casts for the bronze doors at the entrance of the Mitchell Library, ca. 1940 / manufactured by Wunderlich Ltd.
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During the construction of the new Mitchell Library which commenced in 1940, Wunderlich Ltd. was contracted to cast in bronze a series of plaques for the new entrance doors. The plaques were cast from sculptures done by Arthur Fleischmann showing European explorers of Australia, and Ralph Walker, Frank Lynch, E. Lenegan and Daphne Mayo depicting Ab...
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16AJvbzn
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992005
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