Whitework and shawls
(19th century)
Credit Line
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift Program, 2025
Gallery location
Not on display
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England Bedcover
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England Cabinet on stand
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Clement Meadmore: The Melbourne Modernist
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William Blake: Romantic visionary
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Sunrise after a squally night
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Sylvia Pankurst, The chainmaker
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The Dunera Boys
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Form and Freedom
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Arthur Boyd’s Australia
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The J. and J. Altmann Collection of Australian Silver
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Fashion in Tudor and Stuart portraiture
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Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion
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It’s a dog’s life
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Intersecting lines: the constructive paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson
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Elizabeth Emma Soyer The escape
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Southern sojourns: Harden Sidney Melville’s 1874 painting of a Torres Strait canoe animated by Kulkalgal and Kemer Kemer Meriam voices of expeditions along the Great Barrier Reef
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Pair of armchairs
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From Cologne to Melbourne: The watermark collection of Canon Ludwig von Büllingen
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Sites of refuge, connection, creation, resistance and loss: the queer bar and nightclub in the twentieth century
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When Crowley Met Balson
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Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
Lace
(FRANCE)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
SEAT
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Dress
GUCCI, Florence (fashion house)
Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera)
Francesco GUARDI
Iris, platform sandals
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer)
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
FRAGMENT
PANEL
(TURKEY)
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Dress
ENGLAND
Textile
William MORRIS
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
CAP
LENGTH OF FABRIC
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Boots
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, London (fashion house); Vivienne WESTWOOD (designer)
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Dress
ALAÏA, Paris (fashion house); Azzedine ALAÏA (designer)
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)