CAP PIECE
Medium
Bright silk embroidery, faded gold ground, 1 stylized tree in faded pinks, golds, greens, purple, border
Measurements
15.9cm square
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
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
Glove purse
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
Portrait of a gentleman
Louis TOCQUÉ
SHOE
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Dress
JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer)
Dress
STEPHEN SPROUSE, New York (fashion house); Stephen SPROUSE (designer)
Nova shoes
UNITED NUDE (shoemaker); Rem D. KOOLHAAS (designer); Zaha HADID (designer)
BROCADE
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Boots
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Alexander McQUEEN (designer); Sarah BURTON (designer)
LENGTH OF FABRIC
Outfit
BODY MAP, London (fashion house); Stevie STEWART (designer); David HOLAH (designer)
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
Bonnet
FRANCE
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
The victory of faith
St George HARE
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Gates of Venice (View of the Venetian lagoon with the Tower of Marghera)
Francesco GUARDI
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
BROOCH
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
Self-portrait
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby