FIRESCREEN
c. 1850-c. 1860
Medium
Panel of embroidery forms screen, framed, glazed, surmounted by a scrolled cresting, cheval-type stand
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr F.G. Besley, 1969
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
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
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
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
Shearing the rams
Tom ROBERTS
The victory of faith
St George HARE
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
A la ville Albane
UNKNOWN
Chair
Carlo BUGATTI
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
MEASURE WITH LID
A monk with a book
TITIAN
TAPPIT-HENS
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Eldorado pulcheria, ewer
AURELIANO TOSO DECORATIVE GLASSWORKS, Murano (manufacturer); Dino MARTENS (designer)
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
EWER
CHELSEA (manufacturer)
Kubus, stacking storage containers
Wilhelm WAGENFELD (designer); Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke A.G., Weisswasser (manufacturer)
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Winter, from The four seasons
FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer)
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON