EMBROIDERY STRIPS
18th century
Medium
1 of 2 strips of embroidery(joined), brown & yellow brocade with lotus design
Measurements
57 1/2"x55"
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1958
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
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The Picasso Century | Online tour
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Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
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Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
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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
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TIWI | Exhibition video tour
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Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
Explore the collection
Dress
JULIEN MACDONALD, London (fashion house); Julien MacDONALD (designer)
Sideboard, from the Langer apartment
Adolf LOOS (designer)
FRAGMENT
Banner
ZANDRA RHODES, London (fashion house); Zandra RHODES (designer)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Jusepe de RIBERA
The thinker
Auguste RODIN
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Nicolas POUSSIN
Scaramouche and Columbine
MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, Meissen (manufacturer); Johann Joachim KÄNDLER (modeller)
Textile
William MORRIS
Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to)
CAP
Coffee pot
GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer)
Untitled (Red)
Mark ROTHKO
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
A monk with a book
TITIAN
Lace
(FRANCE)
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
DAMASK
Cabinet
W. H. ROCKE & CO., Melbourne (manufacturer); John MATHER (decorator)
Writing cabinet
Rene DUBOIS
Great dancing pair
Erich HECKEL
Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law
John Rogers HERBERT
Black bunny ears hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Stephen JONES (designer)
Dress
STEPHEN SPROUSE, New York (fashion house); Stephen SPROUSE (designer)
Ulysses and the Sirens
John William WATERHOUSE
(Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight)
Joseph WRIGHT of Derby