Art Gallery of NSW

"The Widower", painted in 1875 by Luke Fildes - one of my favourite pictures.

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Power, Beauty and Little Beasts (Part 2)

March 16th 2014
We left Government House and headed back through the Royal Botanic Garden towards our next port of call – the Art Gallery of NSW. The Botanic Garden is the oldest in Australia, established in 1816, and houses 9000 species of plants mostly from Australia and the South Pacific. There were an amazing variety of begonias of all shapes and sizes, some like large leafed shrubs; a Kauri tree from Queen ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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