PIECE OF FABRIC
Medium
Modern period, brocade of red, green & gold satin
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Dr G. E. Morrison, 1921
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
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Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
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Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
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The Picasso Century | Online tour
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Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
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Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
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Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
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Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
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Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
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Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Anguish
August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK
LENGTH OF FABRIC
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
Cap
CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (fashion house); John GALLIANO (designer); Stephen JONES (milliner)
Iris, platform sandals
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN, London (fashion house); Sarah BURTON (designer)
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Dress
GUCCI, Florence (fashion house)
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Nova shoes
UNITED NUDE (shoemaker); Rem D. KOOLHAAS (designer); Zaha HADID (designer)
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
Baronne Madeleine Deslandes
Edward BURNE-JONES
Dress
ENGLAND
Weeping woman
Pablo PICASSO
Ecstasy
André MASSON
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
FRAGMENT
Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque
VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer)
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
SEAT
Glove purse
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
Shoe covers
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Dress with body chains
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN