The gold diggers

The gold diggers
 1854

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
plaster
Measurements
38.8 × 23.9 × 15.6 cm
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
incised in base l.r. E. Todt. Melbourne 1854
Accession Number
p.79.2-1
Department
Australian Sculpture
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Leonard Terry, 1884
Gallery location
Not on display

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Essay
A Life Revealed: Emil Todt, a German sculptor in nineteenth-century Melbourne
Essay
Index 1945–2010

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