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Australia Felix: Douglas T. Kilburn’s daguerreotype of Victorian Aborigines, 1847
The earliest, and certainly one of the most intriguing, nineteenth-century Australian photographs in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection is a daguerreotype of three Victorian Aborigines taken by Dougla
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‘The Breaking of the Web’: William Holman Hunt’s two early versions of The Lady of Shalott
The mid-nineteenth-century English artists known as the Pre-Raphaelites are represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria by a group of important paintings and works on paper.
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A souvenir of marvellous Melbourne: W. H. Rocke’s 1880–81 exhibition cabinet
The Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, stand today as a monument to ‘Marvellous Melbour
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A pioneer of Australian picture framing: an introduction to the work of Lillie Williamson
A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance
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Japanese woodblock prints: a mass medium
After a century of civil wars, the Tokugawa shoguns (military rulers) of the Edo period (1615–1868) unified Japan and brought about more than 250 years of peace and prospe
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The Aspremont Psalter-Hours: the making of a manuscript
The richly illuminated prayer-book known as the Aspremont Psalter-Hours has long been recognised as an important example of manuscript production from the Lorrai
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Contributions to the study of the Melbourne Triptych. II: The miracle of the loaves and fishes, The Raising of Lazarus, The Rest on the Flight to Egypt and St Peter
This study, which follows on from that of the left wing of the Melbourne triptych, the Marriage at Cana (fig. 1a),1
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Albrecht Dürer’s devotional images of the Virgin and Child
One of the themes which most preoccupied the creative talents of Albrecht Dürer is that of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Chi
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Head covering of the mummy of Pedehorpasheriesi
This head covering shows the deceased, Pedehorpasheriesi, whose name is given on the fillet that decorates the headdress
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John Henry Connell: the man and his collection
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Connell Collection provoked great excitement when first exhibited in 19
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Thea Proctor in London 1910–11: her early involvement with fashion
‘Clothes,’ said Miss Proctor, sitting in that white-walled studio of hers where the woodcuts make such attractive spashes [sic] of yellow and magenta and vermilion, ‘fashionable clothes are too much t
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Strangeness and fantasy: notes on nineteenth-century Venetian glass at the National Gallery of Victoria
When Charles Locke Eastlake (1836–1906), nineteenth-century architect and nephew of the eminent Victorian connoisseur Sir Charles Eastlake, came to the subject of modern glass in his famous Hints on Household Taste – a treatise…
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A Renaissance reliquary collection in Halle, and its illustrated inventories
The National Gallery of Victoria owns a small, yet important, collection of incunabula and early printed books dating from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.1See
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John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney
John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney, 1887, came into the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1943 (fig. 1
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A Seventeenth-century Anglo-Venetian vessel, with Dutch engraving, at The National Gallery of Victoria
During the sixteenth century, glassmaking in Europe underwent a significant change, which coincided with the vast political and social changes that were sweeping the continent.