painter and scene-painter, painted a transparency in honour of the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Melbourne in November 1867. Hung in front of the Butchers’ Arms Hotel in Elizabeth Street, this depicted Neptune in a car, drawn by three sea-horses, accompanied by a naiad riding on a dolphin, waiting to guide the Galatea to Victoria. Robins’s business premises were in Swanston Street, Melbourne. The artist is presumably the Mr Robins who worked as a scene-painter at Melbourne’s Duke of Edinburgh Theatre (late Haymarket) in 1870.
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- 1992
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