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National Library of Australia News, August 2002 issue
On the cover this month

Mortimer Menpes (1855–1938)
Portrait of the Doge Loredano
between 1900 and 1909
shellac on oil on cardboard; 48.5 x 36.0 cm
Pictorial Collection S4532
after Giovanni Bellini (d.1516) Florentine
The Doge Leonardo Loredan 1501–1504
oil on poplar; 61.6 x 45.1 cm
Original in the National Gallery, London

 

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Greg Pook, Andrew Stawowczyk Long,
Damian McDonald
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Picture Researcher: Seuth Sirimanotham

 
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August 2002 Volume XII Number 11

THE GREAT MASTERS, BY MORTIMER MENPES
 

Tim Fisher introduces the Library’s current exhibition

MAN WITH DREAMS FOR SALE AND A LOT OF SANGFROID: ACTOR-MANAGER FRANK GERALD
  Judy Cannon looks at the eventful life and times of a showman
LIBRARIES AND EROTICA
  Edgar Crook considers a perhaps less-known component of the Library’s Collection
‘LIKE A HIPPO AND SOMETHING ELSE:
AN ALL-AUSTRALIAN BUNYIP PANTOMIME
  Richard Stone describes the career of an original piece of Australian theatre
THE ROLLS SERIES

Sylvia Marchant examines an epic work on the Library’s shelves
RECENT DONATIONS: TAMARA FINCH PAPERS

Michelle Potter describes an example of donation by individual
FRIENDS PAGE
  A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
   
 

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