In 1891 and 1892 the National Gallery of Victoria, then an institution barely thirty years old, purchased a group of sixty-four original old master and nineteenth-century engravings and etching

A knowledge of picture frames can prove invaluable to an art historian seeking to date a painting or to confirm aspects of its provenance

‘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

Having worked initially in the poetic idiom of figurative engraving on glass, noted British artist Stephen Procter later abandoned the practice in favour of larger scale, essentially abstract or sculptural for

From at least 1647 onwards, Rembrandt executed many of his prints on papers of oriental origin

The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.

Hugh Ramsay studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, from 1894 to 1899

An effect is only momentary: so an impressionist tries to find his place.

Paintings by famous early Renaissance artists are rare in Australian collections, so the realisation that the Saint George and the dragon, c.1430 (fig.