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(Elephant)
 (c. 1953)

Medium
conté crayon, wash and smudging
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
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
conté crayon, wash and smudging
Measurements
55.0 × 50.0 cm (image) 67.5 × 55.1 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
inscribed in conté, l.c.: Fred Williams
Accession Number
2022.492
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
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
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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Exhibition
Fred Williams
Learning Resource
The Australian landscape: Inspired by Fred Williams’s You Yangs series
Essay
Tribute to Fred Williams: National Gallery of Victoria, 12 May 1982
Essay
Selected affinities: Fred Williams’s drawings after Rembrandt
Essay
Major early landscape by Fred Williams
Essay
Fred Williams’s Pilbara series
Exhibition
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Exhibition
Treasures from the Australian Prints and Drawings Collection
Exhibition
Heroic Landscape: Williams, Streeton
Exhibition
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Exhibition
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Essay
Framing the modern: Twentieth-century picture frames in Melbourne and beyond
Essay
Donald Laycock: Star cycle
Exhibition
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Essay
The violent vision of the 1940s
Essay
An Australian student of Frank Brangwyn: Jessie C. A. Traill in London and Belgium, 1907–1908
Essay
Ocean beach, Sorrento
Essay
Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula: Painting in a changing landscape
Essay
‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect
Essay
Enfilade and Intrafilament, the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square

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