IMAGE Rio © David Alan Harvey

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Dierdre Bean, Hazelnut vellum (detail)

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Image: Ann Thomson. Photo: Vanessa Jouning

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Jingdezhen ware (China), Qing dynasty 1644–1911 Dish with single dragon, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China

Image: Tom Roberts Adagio c.1893 (detail)

David Chesworth Richter-Meinhof/Opera 2010 Performance at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

One Pillar Pagoda in Hanoi. Photograph by Ruud.

Image: Rachel Wells My deer

Portrait of Miles Franklin (detail), circa 1940s

Image: Christopher Hartney

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Imam mosque, Esfahan. Stock.xchng

Image: Laurens Craen Still life with imaginary view (detail) c.1645–50 Gift of Sir Arthur Downes in memory of his uncle JF Downes and of his cousin FWA Downes HLA 1929

Euan Macleod Bonfire, Broken Hill 2011 (detail) oil on canvas 124 × 100cm. Courtesy the artist & Watters Gallery, Sydney.

Image: Ren Xuda (China), Bamboo 1809 (detail), gift of Mr Sydney Cooper 1962

Image: Juliet Holmes à Court, Storm carrying spring blossoms 2011, oil and wax on canvas

Image: Dr Julian Droogan

Image: Elle Radin Morning dresser 2012 (detail) inspired by Herman Melville’s story The apple tree table © the artist

Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942) Flowers of the twelve months 1920-25 (detail), one leaf from a set of twelve album leaves, ink and colour on silk, Hosomi Museum Kyoto

Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait, 1796, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jennifer Keeler-Milne teaching Drawing from the collection

Image: India, Punjab Hills, Mankot, Lotus-clad Radha and Krishna c1700–10 (detail),
opaque watercolour (gouache) on paper 21.9 × 16.2 cm, purchased 2007

Francois Boucher (1703-70) The toilet 1742 (detail), oil on canvas, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, JP Zenobel, The Bridgeman Art Library

Image: Brenda Tye Untitled

Andrew Totman Untitled

Image: Brenda Tye Charcoal lion

Image: Peter Griffen’s studio

Image: Fiona Campbell