CAP PIECE
Medium
Bright silk embroidery on velvet, blue ground, 3 flowers in pinks with green foliage & 2 butterflies
Measurements
34.3 × 14.6 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Hughes Stefanovic, 1969
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Essay
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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
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)
Lace
(FRANCE)
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Glove purse
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
BROCADE
Dress
MOSCHINO, Milan (fashion house); Franco MOSCHINO (designer)
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
SHOE
BROOCH
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Dress
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
Day dress
(FRANCE)
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Sampler
Margaret FOSTER
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Lady Rous née Charlotte Maria Whittaker, second wife of the 6th Baronet, later, Earl of Stradbroke
William BEECHEY
Dress
JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer)
Clouds
John CONSTABLE
Dress
ULYANA SERGEENKO, Russia (fashion house); Ulyana SERGEENKO (designer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Spouted pharmacy jar
ORAZIO POMPEI WORKSHOP, Castelli (manufacturer)
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
The thinker
Auguste RODIN