Parasol
(1905-1910)
Medium
silk, porcelain, wood
Measurements
94.3 cm (length)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs W. H. Sloane, 1966
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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‘Rembrandt by himself’: a brief history of the Melbourne portrait of Rembrandt by an unknown artist
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Unknown dressmaker Wedding outfit
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Drysdale
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William Blake and the NGV: the history of the Virgil wood engravings
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Laurie Wilson
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The thought of the horse
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Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion
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Trajan and the widow, a panel from a cassone
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Intersecting lines: the constructive paintings of Grace Crowley and Ralph Balson
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SHOE
Boots
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer); Sarah BURTON (designer)
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
BROCADE
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
CAP
SEAT
BROOCH
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Nova shoes
UNITED NUDE (shoemaker); Rem D. KOOLHAAS (designer); Zaha HADID (designer)
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Dress
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
FRAGMENT
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Dress
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, Paris (fashion house); Jean Paul GAULTIER (designer)
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Jacket
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer)
Dress
ENGLAND
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna