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Related content for the world culture "Modern era" Related galleries Related highlight objects $20 banknote issued by the Mauritius Commercial Bank £5 note of the Scarborough Bank, York City and County Banking Company 10s note, Bank of England 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 Credit card 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... Doctor Who banknote Dundee Union Bank, £1 note Early Victorian tea set 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 Hockney's In the Dull Village 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 Russian revolutionary plate Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle Sikh fortress turban 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 South Sea Annuities certificate Steel dies for a silver crown of Queen Victoria Sudanese slit drum 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
