Creating a Gothic Paradise : Pugin at the Antipodes

ART / AUSTRALIAN ART & CRAFT/ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

A history of Pugin’s only coherent collection of works outside Britain and Ireland which includes furniture, embroidered silk textiles, carved stonework, metalwork, books paintings and engravings architectural drawings and photographs, as well as original design drawings and items manufactured from them.
Published in conjunction with the Visions of Australia national touring exhibition of the same title shown at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 14 September to 10 November 2002, the Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, 14 December 2002 to 26 January 2003, the National Library of Australia, 14 February to 18 May 2003, and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 5 June to 20 July, 2003.

Includes bibliographical reference (p. 234-236) and index.

ix, 246 : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims ; 30 cm. #190822
Who was Pugin? The Architect and the Age 3
Pugin and Willson 38
To Van Diemen’s Land 5
Building a Gothic Jerusalem 82
Henry Hunter as a Disciple of Pugin 42
Commercial Clients 160
The Wider Pugin Legacy 207
Appendix A: Liturgical Arrangements in Pugin’s Churches 228
Appendix B: The Probable Dissemination and Movement of 221
Bishop Willson’s Ten Simple 1847 Chalices and Patens
Appendix C: Hardman’s Manufacturing Processes and Costs 222
for an 1845 Pyx and Simple Chalice of 1847
Appendix D: Dimensions of Pugin’s Church Designs or Australia 224
Appendix E: A Pugin church typology 225
Appendix F: Churches Designed and/or Modified 227
and/or Supervised by Henry Hunter
Appendix G: Works on Architecture, Church Decoration and 230
Furnishing in the St Mary’s Cathedral Library, 1859.
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