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The grey parrot
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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Gallery location
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
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.