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Chasuble
A.W.N. Pugin, c.1840s; John Hardman Powell, c.1853-54
Made by Mrs Lucy Powell and Misses L. and W. Brown, Birmingham, 1854
[Re-lined and collar of chasuble restored by the Carmelite nuns,
Launceston, Tasmania, 1977]
Silk, velvet, gold braid, metal thread, waxed card, pastes, glass beads, gold metal cord and paillettes; 119.5 x 111.0 cm
Archdiocese of Hobart Museum and Archives
Photograph by Simon Cuthbert, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Augustus Pugin was an early Victorian designer responsible for creating the exterior, interior and furnishings of the British Houses of Parliament. His work and his design theories played a key role in the architecture of decorative arts of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australia. Apart from Britain and Ireland, his only body of work is in Australia-mainly Tasmania. Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes, an exhibition curated by Brian Andrews for the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, will be at the National Library 13 February - 18 May 2003. It features 280 items, including furniture, embroidered silk textiles, carved stonework, metalwork, books, paintings and engravings, architectural drawings and photographs, as well as original Pugin design drawings alongside the items manufactured from them.

 

February 2003 Volume XIII Number 5

ISLAND TREASURES FROM HELL AND PARADISE: HANDMADE ALBUMS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

Christobel Mattingley discovers that the personality of the compiler and a wider history are demonstrated in some handmade albums in the Library’s collections

SISTER SUFFRAGISTS: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN ENGLAND

Ann Nugent unearths the largely untold stories of three women prominent in the suffrage movement in Australia and England as documented in the National Library’s collections

PRIME MINISTERS RECORDED IN THE ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION

In the first part of a series on prime ministers, Barry York discovers that the voices of most of Australia’s prime ministers can be heard in the National Library’s Oral History Collection

PRECIOUS, UNIQUE AND FRAGILE: CONSERVING OUR GRASSROOTS HISTORY

Diana Giese discovers the ways in which some recipients of Community Heritage Grants have used their funds to preserve our history and heritage

PRINS JORIS WAS A GENTLEMAN: MULTICULTURAL FOLKLORE FOR CHILDREN

Gwenda Beed Davey surveys sound recordings of folklore for and by children held at the National Library of Australia

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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