• Title
  Volume 4: Tom Roberts painting in Exhibition Building, Melbourne, the big picture of the Opening of the first Federal Parliament, ca. 1903
• Call number
  A 2481/1
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1903
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  844028
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - carbon print - 14.2 x 19.5 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  "The large canvas was worked on between September 1901 and November 1903 during which time Roberts worked in both Melbourne and London. In 1904, the Australian Government presented the painting to King Edward VII in gratitude for his son, the Duke of Cornwall and York (who later became King George V) performing the opening ceremony. The painting was hung in St James Palace London, from 1904 to 1957 and was returned on loan to Australia in 1958. It now hangs in Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra".
  
  Reference:
  Parliamentary Education Office
  http://www.peo.gov.au/students/cl/first.html (accessed March 5, 2009)
• Related Material
  Tom Roberts painting "The Big Picture", 1903 / photographers T. Humphey & Co., Melbourne (897246)
• Description source
  
  Titled from inscription in pencil on the back of mount
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a2405001
• Topic
  parliaments
  artists
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3270547

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