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    Balthazar Paul Ommeganck

    Belgium, b.1755, d.1826 (Attributed to)

    A Horse

    • 1780s
    • Oil on canvas
    • Purchased, 1973
    • 480 x 480 x 50mm
    • 73/260

    Tags: animals, brown (color), flowers (plants), grasses (plants), horses (animals), natural landscapes

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    Exhibition History

    Gavin Hipkins Romance: London (Tiger) 2004. C-type print. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū 2015
    Beasts
    After Carlo Saraceni The Holy Family Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū; presented by the Estate of Dr J P Whetter, 1940.
    For Tasman and Cook: Early Works from the Gallery's Collection
    Image: uploads/2023_05/73_260.jpg

    Related reading: Beasts

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    Zoology

    Zoology

    I'm pretty sure the kids at my daughters pre-school haven't seen Cai Guo-Qiang's Heritage, which was commissioned for his show Falling Back To Earth at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane last year.

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    The Mouse-trap by Petrus van der Velden

    The Mouse-trap by Petrus van der Velden

    This article first appeared as 'Cleverly caught' in The Press on 14 February 2014.

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    It's Showtime!

    It's Showtime!

    Today is Show Day here in Canterbury. Over at Canterbury Agricultural Park you can see thousands of animals being put through their paces or if you'd rather, you can look at some of these equally beautiful beasts from our collection.

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    Eileen Mayo

    Eileen Mayo

    It's 107 years since this multi-talented artist, described by art historian Kenneth Clark as 'outstandingly good', was born in Norwich, England.

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    Lizard's Lounge

    Lizard's Lounge

    I stumbled into their lair on accident, and found myself in a madhouse of reptilian decree. I immediately froze, in a vain hope they had not noticed me in my peculiarity, but my attempts were feeble, I had been seen. I felt a cold sweat and a shiver ran down my spine as they glared at me with beady black eyes from a nebulous of smoke and dust that choked the room. I was their intruder. One of the lizards mockingly hissed a welcome, 'Please take a seat, you look weary.'

     

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    Loads of bulls

    Loads of bulls

    Looking out of the library window at the Kings Manor here in York I can see a bronze calf.

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    A Well Timed Care Package

    A Well Timed Care Package

    One of the best-timed gifts my family and I have ever received arrived at our home on Mt Pleasant in May. 

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    Animals

    Animals

    The Gallery's Registration department keeps a close watch on our collection of art, with regular audits to make sure all is as it should be.

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    Urban fauna

    Urban fauna

    My final days at Julia Morison's 'Meet me on the other side' at NG

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    When is a dog a mouse?

    When is a dog a mouse?

    Throughout the centuries man has delighted in creating representations of his canine companions.

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