NOTES
- John Grote, Old Studies and New’, Cambridge Essays: 1856 London, John W. Parker and Son, 1856, p. 114.
- Address of the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library. Presented to the Governor-in Chief Sir Henry Barkly K.C.B. on the occasion of the Opening of the Queen's Reading Room on the 24 May 1859; Melbourne, 1859, p. 1.
- ibid., p. 2.
- ibid.
- McCoy, On the Formation of Museums in Victoria, Melbourne, 1857. Victorian Pamphlets, State Library of Victoria, pp. 3 and 20. Sir Frederick McCoy (1817–1899) was born in Dublin and in 1849 became Professor of Geology and mineralogy and curator of the museum at Queen's College, Belfast. He was appointed one of the first four professors at Melbourne University when it opened in April 1855. As well as holding the Chair of Natural Science he established a National Museum at the University, formally opened in 1864 and later transferred to the Library and Museum complex in Swanston Street.
- Ernest Scott, A History of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1936, p. 23.
- The Crystal Palace Exhibition Illustrated Catalogue, London, 1851. The Art Journal Special Issue. An Unabridged Republication with a new Introduction by John Gloag F.S.A., New York, Dover Publications, 1970, p. v.
- Malcolm Baker, The Cast Courts, Victoria and Albert Museum, H.M.S.O., 1982, pp. 1–2. Meredith Shedd, ‘Phidias in Paris: Felix Ravaisson's Musée Grec at the Palais de L'Industrie in 1860’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, CV, April 1985, pp. 155–170. Shedd relates that this installation was also short-lived. In 1861 it was moved from the ground to the first floor of the Palais de L'Industrie. In 1862 a reduced installation of the casts opened in Room 23 of the Musée Napoleon III and by the end of that year the Collection was sent to the École des Beaux Arts where many of the casts were installed in the Cour vitrée and the Salle grecque—contrary to Ravaisson's desire to establish a museum of casts separate from both the École and the Louvre.
- The Crystal Palace, Sydenham. Auctioneers Brochure. Knight, Frank and Rutley, London. 28 November 1911, pp. 10, 13.
- The Times, 3/4/1878, p. 4
- ibid.
- Rev. C.B. Gibson, The History of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols., London, Thomas Newby, 1861, vol. 2, p. 317.
- Barry's Day Book Ms 8380 Box 602/1. Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria.
- See W.B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition, Allen Figgis and Co. Ltd. Dublin, 1976, p. 56.
- W.G. Strickland, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts and statues in Trinity College, Dublin and in the Provosts House, Dublin University Press, 1916, p. 79.
- ibid.
- H.W. Janson, Nineteenth Century Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1985, p. 39.
- Thomas Carlyle, ‘Heroes and Hero—Worship’, Selected Writings, edited by Alan Shelston. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971, p. 237.
- See the discussion of ‘Portraiture and the Country House’ by Oliver Millar, in The Treasure Houses of Britain, Exhibition Catalogue, Washington, 1985, pp. 30–31.
- Athenaeum, 10 June 1854, pp. 716–718.
- ibid.
- Catalogue of Coins, Medals etc. in the Museum of Art at the Public Library, n.d. [1865] p. viii.
- The Argus, 21 December 1868.
- The author wishes to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of Ms. Christine Downer in this matter.
- S. Macdonald, The History and Philosophy of Art Education, University of London Press, 1970, p. 169.
- Sir Redmond Barry. Correspondence with H.C. Childers. Barry Papers MS 8380. Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. R.E.C. Waters Correspondence.
- Barry revealed here just how up-to-date his thinking was on the issue of restorations of classical statuary. Felix Ravaisson felt that the single most innovative aspect of his exhibition of casts after Greek statuary staged in Paris in 1860 was the display of derestored monuments, a practice which was then still relatively uncommon. See Shedd, ‘Phidias in Paris,’ op. cit., p. 162. Barry's preference for Greek rather than Roman statuary was also in the forefront of taste in 1850–1860.
- Art Gallery. Letters received. 1860–1862. 5844. Public Records Office, Laverton, Victoria.
- A small number of photographs relating to this purchase were located in the Print Room of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1986.
- All the decorative arts reproductions referred to in this letter which remained in the National Gallery of Victoria were sold at auction by an Order-in-Council of the Trustees of the Gallery under Director Daryl Lindsay. See Catalogue Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd. Sale of Porcelain and Objects of Art. Comprising over 750 surplus museum items from the National Collection. In the Lecture Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria. Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th November, 1943.
- Then the architect of the South Kensington Museums.
- Copy of a Report from Charles Summers upon the casts (damaged) transmitted per ‘Kronprinzen.’ November 1861.
- Particulars Remarks
- Statue of Apollo Belvedere Arms, legs, drapery—broken
- Discobolus Hand broken
- Group—Boxers Arms and shoulder broken
- Dancing Fawn (Statue) Leg broken
- Venus de Medici Body broken in pieces
- Listening Slave Arms and hand broken
- Diana a la biche Hand broken off, arms and drapery broken
- Diana Robing Legs broken
- Fighting Gladiator Hand and arm broken
- Venus de Mile Head and body much broken
- Venus Head off, much broken
- Aristides Head and hand smashed
- Ceres and Proserpine Much broken
- Achilles Legs broken from plinth
- The Graces Heel broken
- Perseus Legs and drapery much broken
- Bust of Homer Smashed
- Wellington Smashed
- Chatham Drapery and pedestal broken
- Prince Consort Smashed
- Shakespeare Smashed
- Voltaire Smashed
- Dr. Johnson Head off
- Relieve of the Holy Family by M. Angelo Smashed
- Panel from Ghiberti Gate Smashed
- Large slabs of Boy Two broken
- Morning Smashed
- See the Museum of Art Accounts [London] 1860–1862, 5846, Public Records Office, Laverton, Victoria.
- Substantial holdings of the Arundel Society Publications remain, as the Trustees continued subscribing until the Society was wound up in 1897. The Collection was split when the Gallery vacated the Swanston Street premises in 1968, with a number being sent to the Bailleau Library at Melbourne University, the bulk going to the new Gallery premises in St. Kilda Road and some remaining with the Library Collections.
- Letters of Redmond Barry to Augustus Tulk. M.S. 12161 Box 287/1/4 Latrobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.
- The Librarian at the British Museum.
- Barry had apparently set up a room in which to display the presented casts at the Victorian Section of the 1862 Exhibition.
- See Invoice to the Museum of Art from W.P. Copeland, 30 December 1862, for materials, colours etc. used in the manufacture of China Earthenware and ceramic statuary at Alderman Copelands Works, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Museum of Art Accounts 1860–1862, 5846. Public Records Office, Laverton, Victoria.
- This set was accessioned separately in the Stock Book and remained distinct from the casts exhibited in the sculpture Gallery in Melbourne.
- For a list of donors see Museum of Art Accounts, 1860–62. op. cit.
- Barry Papers M.S. 8380 Box 597/1 (a).
- Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen, built 1839–48.
- Public Library. Report of the Committee of Trustees, 1870–71, p. 24. Public Records Office, Laverton, Victoria.
- ibid., p. 10.
- Argus, 7 January 1865, p. 5.
- ibid.
- Catalogue of the Casts, Busts, Reliefs and illustrations of the School of Design and Ceramic Art in the Museum of Art at the Melbourne Public Library, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1865.
- Catalogue of the Casts of Statues, Busts and Bas-reliefs in the Museum of Art at the Public Library, Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, [1867].
- Crystal Palace Guides. The Fine Arts Courts in the Crystal Palace. Vol. I. The North-West Side—The Egyptian Court, The Greek Court; the Roman Court, the Alhambra Court; the Ninevah Court, by Owen Jones architect and Joseph Boromi, sculptor. Crystal Palace Library, London, 1854. Vol. II N.E. Side—the Byzantine Court: the Medieval Court; the Renaissance Court; the Italian Court; a Catalogue of modern sculpture. Crystal Palace library, London, 1854. A Handbook to the Courts of Modern Sculpture by Mrs. Jameson. The Crystal Palace Library, 1854.
- Argus, 7 January 1865, p. 5.
- See footnote 29.
- F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500–1900, Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 1981.
- Argus, 7 January 1865, p. 5.
- W. G. Rossetti, Fine Art, Chiefly Contemporary, Notes re-printed, with Persians, A.M.S. Press Inc., New York, n.d., Ch. III, p. 52.
- Cremorne Gardens. Visitors Guide, [?1858] Art Pamphlets, State Library of Victoria.
- A. Bagot, Coppin the Great, Melbourne University Press, 1965, pp. 206–209; 240.
- Argus, 24 November 1863: ‘To Correspondents’.
- Argus, 18 January 1864, ‘Letters to the Editor’: ‘Diana in the Way.’
- F. Hume, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Hogarth Press, 1886, reprint, Gaslight Crime, Hogarth Press, London, 1985, p. 48.
- Argus, 10 November 1932, p. 6.
- Argus, 11 January 1934; Age 20 January 1934. The Sun, 27 February 1934 gives them an interesting obituary: ‘Trenchantly criticised by the highbrow, but much loved by those who know them best, the statues in the Fitzroy Gardens are going… with the elms and the beeches they have given it that atmosphere of old-world calm that something new in marble cannot replace…’ I would like to acknowledge the generous assistance of Mr. Gerard Hayes in establishing the placing and ultimate fate of Coppin's casts.
- The Atheneum, 10 February 1872, p. 183.
- See Stock Book I, National Gallery of Victoria.
- ibid.
- The assistance of Mr. Don Gore and Mr. Peter Clarke of the R.M.I.T. is gratefully acknowledged here.
- Stock Book I, op. cit.
- Information Courtesy of the Chairman of Trustees, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Mr. L. Lethlean.
- Stock Book I, op. cit.
- Auction by L. Joel of National Gallery of Victoria. Pictures, panels, plaster—casts and frames. By Order of the Gallery Trustees, Tuesday 7 October, 1941.