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Artists in society: a Melbourne circle, 1850s–1880s
A recent acquisition of watercolours and drawings by Georgiana McCrae (1804–90), Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–95) and Edward La Trobe Bateman (18157–97) has greatly enriched the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of works…
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William à Beckett’s copy of Young’s Night Thoughts
The coloured copy of William Blake’s set of engravings for Edward Young’s Night Thoughts (1797), recently acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria, is one of the most interesting so far described&#
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The Interior of St Janskerk at Gouda by Hendrick Cornelisz van der Vliet
Essential reasons for the extraordinary development of Dutch painting during the 17th century, according to Johan Huizinga, were ‘the intense enjoyment of shapes and objects, the unshakeable faith in the reality and…
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Variation, transformation and interpretation: Watteau and Lucian Freud
A work which has remained in storage at the National Gallery of Victoria for many years is the small panel called Les jaloux (The jealous ones) 496/2 (fi
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Contributions to the study of the Triptych with the miracles of Christ: The marriage of Cana
The study of the minor Flemish masters of the end of the 15th century has progressed considerably in recent years
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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 graphic context of Jusepe de Ribera’s The poet
The National Gallery of Victoria holds in its collection a fine impression of The poet (fig
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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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Look homeward Angel: Marshall Claxton’s emigrant
Marshall Claxton’s painting An emigrant’s thoughts of home (1859) (
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This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 33 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
Edition 33
This edition of the Art Bulletin of Victoria 33 features essays that examine a wide range of works from the NGV’s collectio
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Tintoretto’s Doge Pietro Loredano at the National Gallery of Victoria: the earlier version?
The eighty-five-year-old magistrate is shown without the stiff formality of many dogal portraits, almost as though he was ready to converse with the viewer.1 Ε. Pillsbury &
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The art of Frederick McCubbin: a view of his materials and technique
A knowledge of the techniques and materials used by Frederick McCubbin throughout his career, together with a careful examination of the artist’s paintings, reveals McCubbin’s late work to be as technically complex…
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Prints of fortune: Hubert Herkomer’s 1891–92 etching purchases for the National Gallery of Victoria
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
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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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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