Collection Online

Browse by artist name

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Virginian partridges

Virginian partridges
 1929

Medium
oil on canvas
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1953
© Cedric Morris Estate
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
60.4 × 81.4 cm
Place/s of Execution
(Suffolk), (England)
Inscription
incised in paint l.l.: CEDRIC MORRIS / 29
Accession Number
2994-4
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1953
© Cedric Morris Estate
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Animals Botanical Nature
Subjects (specific)
bird (animal) cactus deserts mountains partridges
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Dudley Tooth, London, 1929, remaining in his personal possession until May 1952; Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; acquired for the National Gallery of Victoria by A. J. L. McDonnell from Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, May 1952 (Contemporary Art Schedule).

Discover more

Essay
Virginian partridges
Essay
Major large-scale etching by Lucian Freud

Explore the collection

Ben Slioch, near Loch Maree, Scotland D. Y. CAMERON From my Mother’s Garden Ingeborg TYSSEN The Assassinated man Eugène DELACROIX (after) Acacia Lina BRYANS Loch Eil D. Y. CAMERON Sketchbook (Nature note book) Sybil CRAIG The Lake of Monteith D. Y. CAMERON Still life (Nature Mort) UNKNOWN; Pablo PICASSO (after) Saline grounds, SA John WOLSELEY Mahakala, dance mask TIBETAN Man absorbed in landscape John OLSEN Love thy nature, fabric length Matthew FLINN (designer) Hills and the stream Charles WHEELER The Splendid Parrot (Crimson Rosella) Frederick Polydore NODDER (engraver) Lessing and Edith Rosenwald, bookplate D. Y. CAMERON From my Mother’s Garden Ingeborg TYSSEN Craigievar D. Y. CAMERON Landscape John VARLEY (A Moorish doorway) Tom ROBERTS Nature study, entrée plate  W. R. MIDWINTER LTD, Burslem, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Roy MIDWINTER (designer); Terence CONRAN (designer) Ben Voirlich - Autumn D. Y. CAMERON Gum trees - springtime John LONGSTAFF Ecstasy André MASSON Arab horsemen Eugène DELACROIX Across three valleys Howard ASHTON A Lioness resting John Macallan SWAN Cataract of the Mawddach John VARLEY Sketch for A frosty morning Frederick McCUBBIN Frontispiece for the Lion and the Unicorn D. Y. CAMERON Gold crests Joan HASSALL