MOSAIC
19th century
Medium
Pictorial mosaic representing doves drinking from a vase
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr R. Murray Smith, 1900
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
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Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
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
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Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
BOWL & COVER
Swansea (manufacturer)
A monk with a book
TITIAN
EWER
CHELSEA (manufacturer)
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
INCENSE BURNER
Rockingham (manufacturer)
SPUR
DECANTER JUG
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry 1925
André GIRARD
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
International Exposition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry, Paris. Christofle and Baccarat Pavilion, postcard
FRANCE
VASE
Furstenberg (manufacturer)
The pioneer
Frederick McCUBBIN
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
WINE CAN
Zurich (manufacturer)
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
RING
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
SPURS