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Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
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Love the exhibition? Get the catalogue. Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, the Sideshow Alley book combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation.
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.
Explore portraiture and come face to face with Australian identity, history, culture, creativity and diversity.
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