Samuel Calvert, engraver, ‘The works at the Intercolonial Exhibition Building, Melbourne’, from Illustrated Melbourne post, 27 August 1866, State Library of Victoria.
Melbourne was proud of its new exhibition buildings, and the press regularly reported the progress of building works. In this carefully composed illustration, engraver Samuel Calvert shows the building under construction, with masons shaping the foundation blocks in the foreground, bricklayers building walls in the middle ground and carpenters and others erecting the timber roof over the hall in the background.