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The grey parrot
(c. 1852-1853)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 53.5 × 35.2 cm
- Accession Number
- 569-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1913
© Public Domain
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- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - Subjects (general)
- Animals Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- books curtains (window hangings) parrot pets (domestic animals) profiles (figures) reading (activity) seated figures women (female humans)
- Provenance
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By descent to Wykeham Deverell, brother of the artist from 1854; from whom purchased, on the advice of Sidney Colvin and Frank Gibson, for the Felton Bequest, 1913.
Exhibited: Annual Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, London 1853, no. 567; The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, 1962.