(Piggyback)
1954
Medium
conté crayon
Measurements
15.9 × 11.1 cm (image) 20.4 × 17.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Lyn Williams AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2022
© Estate of Fred Williams
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
inscribed in pencil u.r.: Fred Williams
Accession Number
2022.454
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
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Tribute to Fred Williams: National Gallery of Victoria, 12 May 1982
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Selected affinities: Fred Williams’s drawings after Rembrandt
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An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
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Ocean beach, Sorrento
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Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: Painting in a changing landscape
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‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect
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Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
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