CAP PIECE
Medium
silk embroidery on velvet, white ground, purple edge, 3 flowers in reds & magenta, 2 butterflies
Measurements
L.35.5cm W.9cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs Hughes Stefanovic, 1969
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
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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
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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
Nova shoes
UNITED NUDE (shoemaker); Rem D. KOOLHAAS (designer); Zaha HADID (designer)
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
Day dress
(FRANCE)
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
(Mother and child)
E. Phillips FOX
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Teacup and saucer
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer)
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Jacket
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer)
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Outfit
BODY MAP, London (fashion house); Stevie STEWART (designer); David HOLAH (designer)
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Lace
(FRANCE)
Dress
JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Dress
ENGLAND
LENGTH OF FABRIC
BROCADE