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Related content for the world culture "Modern era"
Related galleries
Room 48: Europe 1900 to the present
Room 47: Europe 1800-1900
Room 68: Money
Related highlight objects
£5 note of the Scarborough Bank, York City and County Banking Company
Arthur Conan Doyle's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library
Arthur Hughes, I Am Afraid of Falling Down There..., a wood engraving for a book illustration
Aubrey Beardsley, Self-portrait, a pen and ink wash
Aubrey Beardsley, The Toilet of Salome, a design in pen and ink
Badge for LGBT History Month
Brass whist marker
Bronze medal celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, by Leonard Wyon after Sir Frederic Leighton and Sir Edgar
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, £5 note
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, proof of £5 note
Cast bronze medal of Charles Darwin by Alphonse Legros
Cheque of Barclay's Bank
Christopher Ironside, designs for the United Kingdom two pence coin
Christopher Ironside, four sets of designs for United Kingdom decimal coins
Christopher Ironside, plaster model and sketch of a design for the United Kingdom five pence coin
Commercial Bank of Scotland, design for £20 note
Copper advertising token for John Thornley, tea merchant
Cup and cover, designed by William Burges
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Arthur's Tomb, a watercolour
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Paolo and Francesca, a graphite drawing
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat, a pen drawing
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The M's at Ems, a pen drawing
Design for the title page of A Catalogue of Benefactions to the British Museum...
Dundee Union Bank, £1 note
Earthenware double-spouted vessel, by Christopher Dresser
Edward Burne-Jones, Cupid finding Psyche, a watercolour
Edward Burne-Jones, Love in a tangle, a watercolour
Edward Burne-Jones, St George fighting the Dragon, a pencil drawing
Edward Hopper, Evening Wind, Etching
Edward Hopper, Night on El Train, etching
Edward Lear, Choropiskeros, Corfu, a watercolour with pen, ink and coloured chalks
Edward Lear, L is much disturbed by several large flies, a drawing in pen and ink
Electroplate teapot, designed by Christopher Dresser and made by James Dixon and Sons
Eyre Crowe, A Man Sleeping in the King's Library of The British Museum, a black chalk drawing
Frederic, Lord Leighton, Study for Rizpah, a black and white chalk drawing on brown paper
Frederick York, Main Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase, a photograph
Frederick York, Mastodon and Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, photographs
Frederick York, The British and Medieval Room, a photograph
Frederick York, The Central Saloon, a photograph
Frederick York, The Eastern Zoological Gallery , a photograph
Frederick York, The Ethnography Gallery, a photograph
Frederick York, The First Egyptian Room, a photograph
Frederick York, The Grenville Library, a photograph
Frederick York, The King's Library, a photograph
Frederick York, The Mammalian Room, a photograph
George Bellows, A Stag at Sharkey’s, lithograph
George Bellows, Business Men’s Bath, lithograph
Gold and enamel pendant brooch made by the jewellers Phillips Brothers
Gold necklace set with the heads of hummingbirds
Gold, silver and diamond tiara, made by Hunt & Roskell
Henry Wood's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library
Invitation to a private view of the Round Reading Room
James Sharples, The Forge, a steel engraving
James Stephanoff, An Assemblage of Works of Art, from the Earliest Period to the Time of Phydias, a watercolour
John Brett, Pansies and Fern-shoots, a watercolour with bodycolour
John Ruskin, A Study of Ivy, a watercolour with gouache over pencil
John Sloan, Turning out the Light, etching
Joseph Swain, Amor Mundi, a wood-engraving after Frederick Sandys
Letter from John T. Wood to J. Winter Jones, Principal Librarian of The British Museum
Louis Lozowick, New York, lithograph
Lustre pottery dish, made by William De Morgan
Martin Lewis, Little Penthouse, drypoint
Martin Lewis, Spring Night, Greenwich Village, drypoint
Memorial from the National Sunday League on the Sunday opening of the British Museum
Merman: part monkey, part fish
Notes on the application of Henry Hook, V.C., for a post as a labourer at The British Museum
Owen Jones, The Great Exhibition, a watercolour with pen and ink
Pair of 'Moon Flasks' decorated by Thomas Mellor for Minton & Co.
Parian bust of Clytie
Penny defaced by suffragettes
Plan of the Mausoleum Room
Poster advertising the sale of building materials
Primrose League badge
Queen Victoria's Jubilee souvenir badge
Report by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge to the Trustees of The British Museum
Richard Dadd, The Halt in the Desert, a watercolour
Richard Doyle, Under the Dock Leaves, a watercolour
Robert Gwathmey, The Hitchhiker, colour screenprint
Robert Riggs, Psychopathic Ward, lithograph
Robert Smirke, South Elevation of the North Wing, a drawing
Rock crystal skull
Roger Fenton, The Discus-thrower (discobolos), a photograph
Roger Fenton, The Mineral Gallery, a photograph
Roger Fenton, The South Front, a photograph
Roger Fenton, The Third Graeco-Roman Saloon on Artists' Day, a photograph
Sir David Wilkie, Nude Woman on a Ladder, a black and red chalk drawing with watercolour
Sir Edward John Poynter, Two Studies of a Male Nude, a chalk drawing
Sir John Everett Millais, Retribution, a pen and ink drawing
Sir John Tenniel, Alice and the Cheshire Cat, a design engraved on wood by the Dalziel Brothers
Sir John Tenniel, Alice's Evidence, a proof wood-engraving by the Dalziel Brothers.
Sir Robert Smirke, Design for showcases for The British Museum
Sir Robert Smirke, The South Wing, a drawing
Steel dies for a silver crown of Queen Victoria
Teaching from the Collections, an engraving
The Arched Room in The British Museum, a coloured engraving
The British Museum Lion
The British Museum Security Staff, by an unknown photographer
The Eastern Zoological Gallery in the East Wing of The British Museum, a coloured engraving
The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery on the introduction of the electric light, an engraving
The Entrance Gates to The British Museum, an engraving
The Grand Saloon and the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, an engraving
The Long Room of The British Museum, an engraving
The Main Entrance Hall and Staircase, a print
The sixth Reading Room of The British Museum, an engraving
Tile mosaic designed by A.W.N. Pugin
Title deed of the 'perimeter properties' of The British Museum
Trial striking of a silver 1 baht of Rama IV Mongkut
Two Assyrian-style figures
Uhlhorn Press advertising token
Visitors on the Colonnade of The British Museum, an engraving
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph
William Morris, Initial D, a design for a woodcut
William Sievier, British Museum Porter, at the gate of Montagu House, a lithograph
Related themes
Money
Time
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