MOUSTACHE COMB
18th century
Medium
In leather case with petit point panel, Victorian period
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mr F. Scaefer, 1954
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Essay
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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: Breakfast With Bonnard
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Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
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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
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Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
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Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Skin heel boots
FECAL MATTER, Montreal (fashion house); Steven Raj BHASKARAN (designer); Hannah DALTON (designer)
The Virgin and Child
FLANDERS
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Dress with body chains
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Mother and child
Cornelis de VOS
Look 15, dress
BALENCIAGA, Paris (fashion house); Nicolas GHESQUIÈRE (designer)
Painting, 202 x 143, 6 November 1967
Pierre SOULAGES
Dunstanburgh Castle, north-east coast of Northumberland, sunrise after a squally night
J. M. W. TURNER
SEAT
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Clock garniture
MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator)
CAP
PANEL
(TURKEY)
Beach dress
FRANCE
PANEL
(TURKEY)
Chacmool
Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico
Little Red Riding Hood
Gustave DORÉ
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Calvary
FLANDERS; Jan BRUEGHEL I (studio of)
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Jusepe de RIBERA
The Mayor's Cup
William KERR
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
The skittle players
David TENIERS II
Forest and sun
Max ERNST
Pair of glass coolers
SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FACTORY, Saint-Cloud (manufacturer)
Cap
CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (fashion house); John GALLIANO (designer); Stephen JONES (milliner)
Throne
Carlo BUGATTI
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
Pietà
CHELSEA PORCELAIN FACTORY, London (manufacturer); Joseph WILLEMS (modeller)