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David Lucas, Summer Afternoon - After a Shower, a mezzotint after John Constable
This mezzotint was first published in part four of Constable…
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Edward Burne-Jones, Cupid finding Psyche, a watercolour
This drawing was one of the designs that Burne-Jones made fo…
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Edward Calvert, The Primitive City, a pen and ink drawing with watercolour
Calvert (1799-1883) spent five years in the Navy before leav…
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Frederic, Lord Leighton, Study for Rizpah, a black and white chalk drawing on brown paper
As a child, Leighton (1830-1896) travelled widely in Europe …
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George Cruikshank, Snuffing out Boney, an etching
Born into a family of printmakers, George Cruikshank (1792-1…
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George Stubbs, an engraving from The Anatomy of the Horse
This engraving is a plate from George Stubb's The Anatomy of…
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of an English Woman, a drawing
The drawing was probably made during Holbein's second stay i…
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Two views of a Woman wearing an English Hood, a drawing
The details of this woman's costume and especially her head-…
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Henry Moore, Two Women: Drawing for sculpture combining wood and metal
Drawing played a major role in Henry Moore's work throughout…
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James Gillray, A Voluptuary under the horrors of Digestion, a print
Gillray portrays George, Prince of Wales, later Prince Regen…
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James Gillray, The Faro Table, a drawing
Gillray is renowned both for his political prints and for sa…
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James Sharples, The Forge, a steel engraving
James Sharples (1825-92) was a self-taught English artist bo…
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John Brett, Pansies and Fern-shoots, a watercolour with bodycolour
Although Brett (1830-1902) studied at the Royal Academy of A…
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John Martin, The Fall of Babylon, a mezzotint with etching
John Martin (1789-1854) first interpreted the biblical scene…
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Louis Haghe, Cana, a lithograph after a watercolour by David Roberts
David Roberts (1796-1864) was the first artist to travel to …
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Louis Haghe, El Khasnè, a lithograph after a watercolour by David Roberts
Born in Edinburgh, David Roberts (1796-1864) was first emplo…
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Mary Delany, Passiflora laurifolia: bay leaved, a paper collage
After the death of her second husband in 1768, Mary Delany l…
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Mary Delany, Physalis, Winter Cherry, a paper collage
In the autumn of 1772 Mary Delany (1700-88) wrote to her nie…
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Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I: Design for the Obverse of the Great Seal of Ireland, a drawing in pen a
This is a detailed design for the principal side (the obvers…
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Richard Dadd, The Halt in the Desert, a watercolour
In 1842 Richard Dadd's patron, Sir Thomas Phillips, took him…
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Sir Edward John Poynter, Two Studies of a Male Nude, a chalk drawing
As a teenager, Poynter (1836-1919) visited Rome where he was…
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Sir John Everett Millais, Retribution, a pen and ink drawing
Millais (1829-1896) was a child prodigy who became, at the a…
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Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mary Hamilton, pencil and chalk drawing
This important drawing of Mary Hamilton is arguably the most…
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Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of a Lady, a chalk study
This figure study is one of a group which may have been made…
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Thomas Gainsborough, Study for a portrait of a Lady with a rose, a drawing
In this large-scale drawing, the lady is seen in profile, ho…
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Willam Pether, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, a mezzotint
An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, named a…
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William Blake, Albion Rose, a colour printed etching with hand-drawn additions in ink and watercolour
This plate was once part of the Large Book of Designs which …
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William Blake, Michelangelo before the Roman Colosseum, an engraving after a drawing by Henry Fuseli
During the time of William Blake (1757-1827) artists rarely …
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William Blake, The Judgment of Paris, a watercolour
Blake made this watercolour for Thomas Butts, his life-long …
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William Blake, Thenot remonstrates with Colinet, Lightfoot in the background, a wood-engraving
This is one of a series of wood-engravings made by Blake to …
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William Hogarth, Characters and Caricaturas, a print
This etching was designed as a subscription ticket - a recei…
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William Hogarth, The Idle 'Prentice betrayed by his Whore and taken in a night cellar with his accomplice, a pri
These four items illustrate different stages in the creative…
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William Morris, Initial D, a design for a woodcut
William Morris (1834-96) was an immensely influential writer…
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William Sharp, Thomas Paine, a print after a painting by George Romney
Thomas Paine published The Rights of Man in two parts in 179…
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Statue of a knight
This small statue is an accurate representation of a knight …
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Badge for LGBT History Month
This badge was made to mark LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans…
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Hockney's In the Dull Village
It is part of a series of prints made by Hockney in 1966 to …
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Silver coin of Cynethryth, wife of Offa of Mercia
Coins in the names of queens who were rulers in their own ri…
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The Sloane Astrolabe
The so-called Sloane Astrolabe is one of the oldest and most…
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James Macardell, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, mezzotint after a painting by William Hoare
Thomas Pelham-Holles (1693-1768) was created Duke of Newcast…
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Thomas Gainsborough, A cart passing along a winding road, a watercolour
Gainsborough rarely bothered to paint specific locations aft…
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Richard Westall, Portrait of a woman in a Landscape with a spaniel
Richard Westall (1765 – 1836) lived with the family of his c…
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Mail collar
This mail collar, worn around the neck and shoulders, is a p…
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Vale of York Hoard
It contains a mixture of different precious metal objects in…
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Fox, Fowler & Co. £5 note
Today the right to issue money is tightly controlled, and th…
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Silver penny of Edgar
The tenth century saw the gradual unification of England, as…
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£10 note, Alton Bank
At the foot of this unissued note of the Alton Bank, the par…
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Stove-tile with the arms of James I of England
This lead-glazed earthenware stove-tile is in the form of a …
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Cradle to Grave by Pharmacopoeia
Cradle to Grave explores our approach to health in Britain t…
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Sir Henry Ellis before a Parliamentary Committee, a caricature
In 1833 the Trustees asked for the usual annual sum of money…
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Visitors on the Colonnade of The British Museum, an engraving
The Great Exhibition of 1851, centred on Crystal Palace in L…
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W.H. Worthington, Bust of Charles Townley, an engraving for The Gentleman's Magazine
Charles Townley (1737-1805) was born into a wealthy Catholic…
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Gold tremissis (shilling) of Eadbald of Kent
After the Romans withdrew from Britain in the early fifth ce…
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Round silver halfpenny of Henry I
For much of the Middle Ages, the only coins in common circul…
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Season Ticket for Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
From the 1730s to the 1860s Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and ot…
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Silver coin hoard from Appledore
In August 1997, metal detectorists Phil Collins, Bert Douch …
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Children's toys
Until the discovery of toys like these, historians did not t…
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Badge of a Grand President of the Anti-Gallican Society
The Anti-Gallican Society was formed around 1745 in oppositi…
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Bone pin
This pin was recovered from the River Thames in 1837 and ent…
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Drinking glass with election inscription
Sir John Pole (around 1733-60) was a parliamentary candidate…
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Great square-headed brooch
This fine silver-gilt and niello brooch is perhaps the most …
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Iron spearhead with silver and copper decoration
This large and elegant spearhead was found in the River Tham…
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Jasper ware portrait plaque of Sir William Hamilton, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) was the British Envoy to th…
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Kingston Jug
This jug was found in the nineteenth century in an old chalk…
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Seax of Beagnoth
The Old English word seax means 'knife', but is specifically…
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Silver knife mount with runic inscription
This fragment of a gilded silver fitting was discovered in t…
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The Armada Service
The service comprises a set of twenty-six parcel gilt (partl…
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The Cuerdale hoard
This exceptional silver treasure consists of over 8,500 obje…
