Frederick Grosse, engraver, ‘The rotunda, Intercolonial exhibiton’, from Australian news for home readers, 20 November 1866, State Library of Victoria.
Intercolonial exhibitions were a 19th-century phenomenon. Among the multitudinous and heterogeneous displays in the Rotunda were novelties and fancy goods; jewellery, including a large diamond found at Beechworth; musical boxes; models of ships and buildings, the latter in shells and plaster; roller skates; objects made by prisoners at Pentridge; carved emu eggs; leatherwork; sculpture; and metalware.