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Mazer and cover
A mazer is a drinking bowl made of wood. Although used princ…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Solicitudo Rustica an etching
This panoramic landscape was designed by Bruegel early in hi…
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Cast bronze medal of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, by Quentin Metsys (about 1462-1530)
The Latin and Greek inscriptions around Metsys' portrait of …
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Gold heaume of Louis II, count of Flanders
The gold coinage of Louis II of Flanders (1346-84) rivalled …
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Prototype 20 euro note
From 1 January 2002, eleven countries in the European Union …
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'Hand of Sabazius'
Bronze hands of this kind are associated with the cult of th…
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Front of an enamelled altar cross
This richly enamelled cross front, consists of five scenes d…
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Glass goblet
This colourless soda glass goblet is enamelled and gilt on t…
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Malling jug
Etienne Perlin, a French visitor to London in the 1550s, not…
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Ship's figurehead
The frightening appearance of the figurehead, with its gapin…
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Stoneware jug with pewter mounts, by Jan Emens Mennicken
Stoneware is clay that has been fired at an extremely high t…
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Master FVB, The Annunciation, a copperplate engraving
Flemish painters had represented the Annunciation in domesti…
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Peter Paul Rubens, drawing for The Fall of the Damned
This large sketch is one of a series of five drawings relate…
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Peter Paul Rubens, Isabella Brant, a portrait drawing
This portrait of Rubens's first wife, Isabella Brant (1591-1…
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Peter Paul Rubens, Landscape with stream overhung with trees, a drawing
This is a remarkable drawing both in its colouring and in th…
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Peter Paul Rubens, Lioness, a drawing
This is a magnificent drawing in both scale and style. It is…
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Peter Paul Rubens, Study for a crucified Man, a drawing
This is clearly a study for a crucified figure, most probabl…
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Peter Paul Rubens, The 'Coup de Lance', a drawing
This drawing was made in preparation for an engraving by Boe…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Calumny of Apelles, a drawing
This drawing was made in pen and brown ink with a brown wash…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Elck or Everyman, a drawing
Elck in Dutch means 'each' or 'everyone' and the scenes in t…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with a fortified town, a drawing
In the centre rises a large castle set in a hilly landscape.…
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Pieter van der Heyden, Big Fish Eat Little Fish, an engraving after a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
In the foreground, a child is instructed by its father, 'See…
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Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Young Woman, a drawing
Drawn in silverpoint on prepared paper coloured cream, this …
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Crozier head
A crozier is a staff used by abbots or bishops of the Christ…
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Monumental brass of an unknown bishop
This is the remaining fragment of a much larger monumental b…
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Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait, an etching
This famous self-portrait captures the immediacy of an autog…
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Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel , a portrait drawing
Thomas Howard (1585-1646), Earl of Arundel, was fully aware …
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Peter Paul Rubens, Eight Turkish Women, a drawing
The figures are simply drawn in pen and brown ink. Like Gent…
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Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Theodore Mayerne, a portrait drawing
Rubens made this sketch in black chalk and some wash. He the…
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Cast and chased gold medal of Mary I, by Jacopo da Trezzo
Jacopo da Trezzo (about 1514-89) was a specialist goldsmith …
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Shield of Parade
The shield depicts a lady in courtly dress and a knight knee…
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Silver-gilt ewer and basin
The well of the basin is inscribed with the arms of Robert d…
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Peter Paul Rubens, The Martyrdom of St Paul, a coloured drawing
This drawing of the execution of St Paul was a modello , or …
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Gilded glass goblet
This delicate glass is very thinly-blown and decorated only …
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Anthony van Dyck, A wooded slope with farm buildings, a drawing
This is one of a number of surviving landscape scenes by van…
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Anthony van Dyck, Orazio Gentileschi, a portrait drawing
This drawing was made to prepare an engraving in a series, k…
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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules victorious over Discord, a drawing
Hercules was the classical figure famous for his heroic deed…
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Gold stater ('Gallo-Belgic A' type)
This is a superb example of the Iron Age die-engraver's art.…
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Silver pennies from the Woodham Walter hoard
Little is known of political relations around the North Sea …
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Engraved glass goblet
The goblet is made of clear glass with two gilded applied ba…
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Jewellery from the Fishpool hoard
On 22 March 1966 an unusual hoard was discovered on a buildi…
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Lothair Crystal
Each scene is accompanied by an inscription drawn from the V…
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Giorgio Ghisi, Allegory of Life, an engraving
This famous print is often called The Dream of Raphael , bec…
