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	Burke & Wills Monument - Charles Summers Swanston Street, (City Square), MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4324	Charles Summers' monument to Burke and Wills was the first major sculpture commission to be conceived and entirely executed in Australia. Since there were no bronze casting facilities at the time here, Summers set up a foundry in his Collins Street studio in Melbourne specifically for the casting of Burke and Wills. This initiative provided a tremendous boost to the local development and growing independence of the arts - in particular sculpture. That it was indeed taken as a ... more	B4324	National

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Burke & Wills Monument - Charles Summers

Swanston Street, (City Square), MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4324

Charles Summers' monument to Burke and Wills was the first major sculpture commission to be conceived and entirely executed in Australia. Since there were no bronze casting facilities at the time here, Summers set up a foundry in his Collins Street studio in Melbourne specifically for the casting of Burke and Wills. This initiative provided a tremendous boost to the local development and growing independence of the arts - in particular sculpture. That it was indeed taken as a ... more

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