(Laughing boy)
1945
Medium
pen and ink
Measurements
15.5 × 14.3 cm (image) 23.8 × 19.5 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
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in pen and blue ink, l.l.: F. W. 45
Accession Number
2022.1327
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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Major early landscape by Fred Williams
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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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