During the eighteenth century painted and engraved views of Rome were popular among visitors to the city, in particular the wealthy young Englishmen who roamed the Continent on what was known as…
When Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78) published his set of fourteen etchings Invenzioni Capric di Carceri (Fanciful Images of Prisons) in 1749–50, he was a young man establishing his artistic career…
Since the revival of interest in printmaking and the simultaneous rediscovery of Australian women artists in the 1970s, the name Jessie Traill has been treated with growing respect by curators, collectors and…
In August 1968 when the National Gallery of Victoria in St Kilda Road was opened, reviews were mixed
Note to reader Throughout its life, the NGV’s scholarly journal has been published under various names as quarterly and annual editions: Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria, 1945–58;…