God said to the serpent ‘Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life’. To the woman he said ‘I will make your pains in childbearing severe and with painful labour you will birth children. Your desire will be for your husband and he will rule over you.’ To Adam he said ‘Because you listened to your wife ate the fruit, cursed is the ground because of you. Through painful toil you will eat food and it will produce thorns and thistles. You will work the fields by the sweat of your brow and you will eat your food until you return to the dust of the ground from where you came.’ Richard LEWER God planted a garden in the east, Eden. There he put the man he formed and made all kinds of tress grow from the earth, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden was the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Richard LEWER Study for The Vicar of Wakefield William Powel FRITH Outfit: Habanero halter top, Pacific pleats skirt, Hibiscus, feather and Pule headpiece and Towards a ship of new arrivals... necklace DORIS DE PONT, Auckland (fashion house); Doris DE PONT (designer); Margo BARTON (milliner); Sofia TEKELA-SMITH (Boy with a kite, Fitzroy) John PERCEVAL Middle Harbour Margaret PRESTON Mermaids dancing Rupert BUNNY Love's pilgrimage Nikolaos GYSIS Possum-skin cloak: Blackfella road Lorraine Connelly-Northey Soundsuit Nick CAVE God makes garments of skin for Adam and Eve and clothed them. God said ‘Man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.’ God banished him from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out God placed a cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden with a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Richard LEWER The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals that God had made. He said to the woman ‘Did God really say that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?’. She replied ‘We may eat fruit from all the trees in the garden except for the tree in the middle of the garden or we will die’. The serpent convinces the woman she will not die and will instead gain wisdom from eating the fruit. Richard LEWER Buyers and sellers (Christ driving out the money changers) Louis DUFFY Syncromy, Berry's Bay Roy de MAISTRE Measuring heights William Powel FRITH God said ‘It is not good for man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him’. God put Adam into a deep sleep and while he slept he took a rib from the man’s chest and closed up the wound with flesh. God made a woman from Adam’s rib. He named her Eve. Richard LEWER Young woman seated, with neck and shoulders uncovered Pierre Auguste RENOIR A monk with a book TITIAN Plum blossom Utagawa TOYOKUNI II Philip IV, King of Spain Pieter de JODE II (engraver); Anthony van DYCK (after) Titlepage Wenceslaus HOLLAR; Francis BARLOW (after) Industrial landscape Russell DRYSDALE Port Jackson Harbour, in New South Wales, with a distant view of the Blue Mountains Walter PRESTON (engraver); John EYRE (after) Broad shield Unknown God put the man in the Garden of Eden and asked him to work and care for the land. He named him Adam, commanding him ‘to eat from any tree in the garden, except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil’ for if he was to eat from the tree of knowledge he would certainly die. Richard LEWER Hospital at Granada John Singer SARGENT Cairo, Egypt Will ASHTON To the workhouse Emma Minnie BOYD A hot day David DAVIES David with the head of Goliath Johan Joseph ZOFFANY