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The Aurelius Ursicinus spoons from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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The Backworth treasure
Inscriptions on the silver pan and on one of the rings indic…
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The Bank of England mosaic
This floor of a small square room was the first Romano-Briti…
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The Barkway hoard
This temple hoard was found about 1743. The temple was proba…
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The Felmingham Hall hoard
The Felmingham Hall hoard consists of bronze statuettes buri…
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The Great Dish from the Mildenhall treasure
The most famous object in the Mildenhall treasure is the lar…
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The Great Torc from Snettisham
This torc was made with great skill and tremendous care in t…
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The Hinton St Mary Mosaic
There were traces of a substantial building complex, probabl…
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The Hoxne Hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard consists of over 15,000…
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The Juliana Bracelet from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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The Leadenhall Street Mosaic
This mosaic is of earlier date than most surviving mosaics f…
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The Mildenhall treasure
This hoard is one of the most important collections of late-…
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The Milton Keynes hoard
The hoard comprises two gold torcs, three bracelets and a ti…
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The Morvah Hoard
These six gold bracelets were found in 1884 during quarrying…
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The Rillaton gold cup
Workmen engaged in construction work in 1837 plundered a bur…
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The Ringlemere gold cup
This fabulous and rare gold cup was found at Ringlemere in E…
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The Snettisham Hoard
These are the crown jewels of Norfolk of over 2000 years ago…
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The Stockbridge urn
This collared urn was found turned upside down covering a hu…
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The Winchester hoard
The Winchester hoard is a unique group of gold jewellery. It…
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Toggles from the Polden Hill hoard
These toggles are made from bronze and were originally decor…
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Toilet implements from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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Tombstone of a soldier's daughter
The name of the woman is missing from this broken tombstone.…
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Tombstone of a young boy, Marcus Cocceius Nonnus
This tombstone was found in 1828 about 200 metres north of t…
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Tombstone of Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus
This is the reconstructed tombstone of Gaius Julius Alpinus …
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Tombstone of Volusia Faustina
The woman depicted in the left-hand portrait bust, wearing a…
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Transverse strainer-spoons from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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Two embossed gold armlets
These gold armlets were part of a remarkable Early Bronze Ag…
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Two iron pilum heads
The pilum , or javelin was carried by legionary soldiers. It…
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Two silver platters from the Mildenhall treasure
The pair of small dishes or platters with Bacchic scenes are…
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Two steelyard weights
These weights (2361 g and 2347 g), for a statera or steelyar…
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Wooden writing-tablet
This is part of a writing-tablet made of fir wood. On the in…
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A wooden writing-tablet
The exterior of this tablet has been branded with a circular…
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Writing-tablet with a letter from Niger and Brocchus to Flavius Cerialis
Translation: 'Niger and Brocchus to their Cerialis, greetin…
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Writing-tablet with a letter from Severus to Candidus
The household of an officer in the Roman army included slave…
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Writing-tablet with a letter from the entrepreneur Octavius to Candidus
This is the most impressive and extensive letter found at Vi…
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Writing-tablet with a letter inviting Sulpicia Lepidina, the commander's wife, to a birthday party
Translation: 'Claudia Severa to her Lepidina greetings. On …
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Writing-tablet with a letter of appeal
The letter was intended for the governor of the province, si…
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Writing-tablet with a line from Virgil
In the commanding officer's residence ( praetorium ) at Vind…
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Writing-tablet with account of money received
This tablet contains an account that may have been that of a…
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Writing-tablet with an intelligence report
Translation: '... the Britons are unprotected by armour (?)…
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Antony Gormley, Part, a pen and ink drawing, with a black and grey wash
This drawing belong to a series from the first half of the 1…
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Arthur Hughes, I Am Afraid of Falling Down There..., a wood engraving for a book illustration
Arthur Hughes (1832-1915), showed precocious talent as a chi…
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Aubrey Beardsley, The Toilet of Salome, a design in pen and ink
This is a design for an illustration to the English edition …
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Charles Mosley, An Exact Representation of Maclaine, the highwayman, etching and engraving
James Maclaine (1724-50) came from a respectable Irish clerg…
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Charles Mosley, The Modern Duel, etching and engraving
This sixpenny print is one of several made of the popular fa…
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Charles Mosley, The Tar's Triumph, or Bawdy-House Battery, etching
This sixpenny print shows a scene from a riot that was provo…
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Christopher Wren, Design for the Dome of St Paul's Catherdral, a drawing in brown ink over pencil
The old St Paul's Cathedral, a medieval Gothic structure, bu…
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti lamenting the death of his wombat, a pen drawing
Rossetti loved exotic animals and began to collect them with…
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David Martin, Louis-François Roubiliac (1702-62), a mezzotint portrait
Martin (1737-97) had been a pupil of the portrait painter Al…
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Edward Lear, L is much disturbed by several large flies, a drawing in pen and ink
Edward Lear (1812-1888) is most famous as the author of vers…
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Eyre Crowe, A Man Sleeping in the King's Library of The British Museum, a black chalk drawing
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910) spent his early years in Paris where …
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Francesco Bartolozzi, Omai a Native of Ulaietea, an engraving (after a sketch by Nathaniel Dance)
Omai, a young South Sea Islander, charmed the officers of th…
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George Cruikshank, Inconveniences of a Crowded Room, an etching
In this coloured etching Cruikshank (1792-1878) makes fun of…
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George Stubbs, A Horse Affrighted by a Lion, an etching
When George Stubbs first became famous in London in 1763 it …
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Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, View of London from the north, a drawing
This drawing shows a favourite eighteenth-century view of Lo…
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Jacques Le Moyne (de Morgues), Wallflowers, a Butterfly and a Snail, a watercolour with bodycolour
This watercolour is taken from an album of fifty drawings, p…
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James Gillray, Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, -or- Forcible Reasons for Negociating a Regicide Peace,
In 1796, after Napoleon Bonaparte's lightning campaign in no…
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James Macardell, Robert, Lord Clive, mezzotint after a painting by Thomas Gainsborough
Robert Clive (1725-74) was a courageous soldier and a cunnin…
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James Stephanoff, An Assemblage of Works of Art, from the Earliest Period to the Time of Phydias, a watercolour
The son of a Russian stage designer who settled in London, S…
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J.M.W. Turner, Messieurs les voyageurs on their return from Italy (par la diligence) in a snow drift upon Mount Tarrar —
Turner first visited Italy in 1819 with the encouragement of…
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J.M.W. Turner, Vale of Ashburnham, a watercolour
John ('Mad Jack') Fuller, the eccentric MP for Sussex, 1801-…
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John Constable, A study of clouds and trees, a watercolour over pencil
This sketch was probably made at Hampstead, near the house C…
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John Constable, Stonehenge, a watercolour over black chalk
Constable visited Stonehenge in July 1820, where he made a s…
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John Faber, Hannah Snell, mezzotint after a painting by Richard Phelps
Born in Worcester, Hannah Snell went to live with a married …
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John Raphael Smith, Mrs Carnac, a mezzotint after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Elizabeth Carnac (1751-80), daughter of Thomas Rivett MP, ma…
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John Ruskin, A Study of Ivy, a watercolour with gouache over pencil
The great social thinker and critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) …
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John Scarlett Davis, The Library at Tottenham, the seat of B. G. Windus, Esq., a watercolour
This highly finished watercolour was commissioned in 1835 by…
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John Sell Cotman, Greta Bridge, a watercolour over pencil
Cotman (1782-1842) came to London from his native Norwich in…
