FIREBACK
Medium
Renaissance cast iron fireback
Measurements
112.5 × 78.5 × 20 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr Martin Boyd, 1952
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
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Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
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Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
CANDLESTICK
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
MEDALLION PORTRAIT
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
TUMBLER
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Bonds Emission poster for the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry
Henri RAPIN
Eldorado pulcheria, ewer
AURELIANO TOSO DECORATIVE GLASSWORKS, Murano (manufacturer); Dino MARTENS (designer)
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
COAL SCUTTLE
WINE CAN
Zurich (manufacturer)
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Self-portrait
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
DECANTER JUG
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
JAR
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
André GIRARD