Death and the macabre at Sideshow Alley at the National Portrait Gallery

By Sally Pryor
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:38pm, first published January 22 2016 - 10:31am

It was late 1853 when a crowd gathered around the window of an oyster shop on Little Bourke Street in Melbourne. But it wasn't oysters that had brought hordes of people to the window. It was, instead, the body of a recently executed bushranger by the name of George Melville.

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