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New Babylon, circa 1890 Digital Link to digital version

 Item — drawer: MSPC 45
Identifier(s): MS8827/11/1255
New Babylon
New Babylon

Scope and contents

Poster from the Bland Holt component of the Coppin Collection, for production of New Babylon, by Paul Meritt, in London. Poster shows Clarence Holt as Flotsam and C. Wilmot as Lazareck and views of the Atlantic, Goodwood, Cremorne and Tattersalls. This poster is reproduced in part in Bagot's book "Coppin the Great" where it is wrongly described as a poster advertising Coppin's Cremorne Gardens, Melbourne.

Dates

  • circa 1890

Creator

  • Culliford, C.J. (Lithographer, Person)

Extent

1 poster : chalk lithograph on yellow paper ; 76.1 x 50.8 cm.

Creator

  • Culliford, C.J. (Lithographer, Person)
  • drawer: MSPC 45 (Graphic materials)

Repository details

Part of the Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library Victoria Repository

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