BOOK WRAPPER
18th century
Medium
Imperial yellow & gold brocade with dragon & peony design
Measurements
43"x43"
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1958
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
Essay
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
DAMASK
Two old men disputing
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn
Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna
Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer)
BROCADE
Top
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Hat
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Shoe covers
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
Lace
(FRANCE)
October
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
The finding of the True Cross
COLA dell'Amatrice
Cap
CHRISTIAN DIOR, Paris (fashion house); John GALLIANO (designer); Stephen JONES (milliner)
Hero and Leander
Nicolas RÉGNIER
Glove purse
MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, Paris (fashion house); Martin MARGIELA (designer)
The first cloud
William Quiller ORCHARDSON
Frederick van Velthuysen and his wife, Josina
Thomas de KEYSER
Portrait of an old lady
Françoise DUPARC
Dress
GUCCI, Florence (fashion house)
Ecstasy
André MASSON
Shoes
COMME DES GARÇONS, Tokyo (fashion house); Rei KAWAKUBO (designer)
FRAGMENT
Dress
ENGLAND
The grasshopper
Jules LEFEBVRE
LENGTH OF FABRIC
The Banquet of Cleopatra
Giambattista TIEPOLO
Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
Jacopo AMIGONI
Mary, Lady Vere
William LARKIN
Rembrandt
REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn; REMBRANDT Harmensz. van Rijn (studio of)
Gasometers at Clichy
Paul SIGNAC
Dress
STEPHEN SPROUSE, New York (fashion house); Stephen SPROUSE (designer)
The victory of faith
St George HARE