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Nguyen Thu, a drawing

This black ink drawing shows two soldiers lighting a cigaret…
Nguyen Thu, a drawing in black chalk

This drawing shows soldiers in an engineering unit in the fo…
Nguyen Thu, a painting

This scene shows six nurses walking in line down a street to…
Nguyen Thu, an original design for a poster

Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), identified by his sagely wispy bear…
Nguyen Van Binh, a drawing

Before the Second World War (1939-45) Vietnam had been a Fre…
Nguyen Van Tru, a drawing

This biro drawing depicts four young men playing with a pack…
Okamoto Toyohiko, Mountain Village, a 2-fold screen painting

Toyohiko has conjured up this view of an isolated village hi…
Quang Tho, a drawing

During the American-Vietnam War (1965-75) the North Vietname…
Quang Tho, a graphite drawing

This drawing shows two women with boxes of bananas and bread…
Scenes of Foreigners: England, a colour woodblock print by Utagawa Yoshitora

Yoshitora (worked about 1850-80) was an artist of Edo (moder…
Ukita Ikkei, Annual Events at the Imperial Court, an album of paintings

Ukita Ikkei (1795-1859) was a leading member of a group of a…
Van Da, a drawing in ink

Van Da (born 1928) joined the army in 1945 as part of the re…
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, £5 note

This panorama gives a multi-faceted view of nineteenth-centu…
Dundee Union Bank, £1 note

At the top of this note the three figures of Britannia, Hibe…
Great Ming Circulating Treasure Note

This note was issued under the Ming dynasty. After seizing p…
Hansatsu (clan note) for 1 momme of silver

Paper money was first issued in Japan in the early seventeen…
Lucky red envelope containing a Hong Kong 1 cent note

The inscription on this note is presented in a frame, remini…
Pre-and post-democracy banknotes

The Apartheid regime was brought in by the Afrikaner Nationa…
Specimen 1000 sucres note

The unusual image on this banknote reflects cross-cultural i…
£1 note

This Southern Rhodesian banknote from 1950 bears an image of…
10s note, Llanidloes Bank

This note is adorned with the Prince of Wales feathers, a po…
£2 note issued by Evans, Jones, Davies & Co.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, most towns in G…
50 gulden note

In most countries, designs on banknotes are chosen to repres…
Portrait of a courtier, an album painting in gouache on paper

A well-dressed member of the court in Bijapur stands in isol…
Frontispiece from Revd James Douglas, Nenia Britannica, a book

Modern archaeology owes a great debt to the pioneering work …
Albrecht Dürer, Fisherman's house on a lake, near Nuremberg, a watercolour

This is one of a group of drawings which represent the count…
Domenico Beccafumi, An Apostle, a woodcut

This powerful figure standing on the edge of a pavement in s…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, The Doge of Venice Departing for the Lido, a drawing

In the centre of the drawing is an immense barge. The Veneti…
Guercino, Caricature of Four Children, Standing, pen and ink wash

Four children stand in descending order of size. All except …
John Sell Cotman, Greta Bridge, a watercolour over pencil

Cotman (1782-1842) came to London from his native Norwich in…
Lorenzo Lotto, An Ecclesiastic in his Study, a drawing

This charming drawing was executed in pen and brown ink, the…
Louis Bonnet, Provoking Fidelity, a print

Fancy prints of attractive young women were popular in Paris…
Louis Lozowick, New York, lithograph

Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) was born in the Ukraine and emigr…
Meyrick and Smith, The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, a book

This was one of a number of books that had been inspired by …
Michelangelo, A seated male nude twisting around, a pen and brown ink drawing with brown and grey wash and lead white

Michelangelo (1475-1564) made this drawing for a scene calle…
Rembrandt van Rijn, An Elephant, a drawing

This is one of several drawings by Rembrandt of female eleph…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Bend in the Amstel, a drawing

This scenic location on the Amstel River at Kostverloren Hou…
Trait de Sensibilité ('Act of Sensibility'), an etching with hand-colouring

The late eighteenth to early nineteenth century was the heyd…
Two Lovers, a niello print

Niello is a type of black enamel, made by fusing a powder of…
Maruyama Okyo and pupils, Tigers Crossing a River, a six-panel folding screen

The scene shown on this screen follows an ancient Chinese le…
Christopher Ironside, designs for the United Kingdom two pence coin

These drawings are the work of Christopher Ironside, designe…
Firman (letter of permission) for Lord Elgin

This document is an Italian translation of the original Otto…
Letter by Philip Hunt describing the removal of sculptures from the Parthenon temple

This document is a copy made by the Reverend Philip Hunt of …
Reformation centenary broadsheet

Elector Frederick was a political protector of Martin Luther…
Hockney's In the Dull Village

It is part of a series of prints made by Hockney in 1966 to …
A letter from Thomas Young about hieroglyphs

English polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829) had been trying to…
Champollion's hieroglyphic hand

The young French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-183…
John Bevan Ford, Te Hono ki Ranana (The Connection with London), a drawing

This drawing is one of a series in which New Zealand Maori c…
Mask from a kukeri masquerade

There are two main types of masquerade in Bulgaria. The olde…
Simoni mask of Queen Elizabeth's official companion

This mask depicts a royal escort who accompanied Queen Eliza…
Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson, The Hall and Stair Case, British Museum, an etching

Montagu House was the first home of the British Museum. When…
Deed of bargain and sale of Montagu House

In 1675 Ralph Montagu bought Baber's Field, on what was then…
Donald Macbeth, The Manuscripts Saloon, a photograph

This room is on the ground floor of the East Wing of the Mus…
Frederick York, The British and Medieval Room, a photograph

In 1875 the Museum Guide Book stated that this room containe…
Frederick York, The Grenville Library, a photograph

Sir Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) was a Trustee of The Britis…
Frederick York, The King's Library, a photograph

In 1823 King George IV presented his father's library to the…
Frederick York, The Mammalian Room, a photograph

This is one of a collection of photographs taken by Frederic…
George Saunders, Plan of The British Museum site

Montagu House, built in 1686, was the first home of The Brit…
Invitation to a private view of the Round Reading Room

By the early 1850s the British Museum Library badly needed a…
James Simon, The North Front of Montagu House and Gardens, an engraving

Montagu House in Bloomsbury was rebuilt for Ralph Montagu fo…
Letter from John T. Wood to J. Winter Jones, Principal Librarian of The British Museum

John Turtle Wood (1821-1890) was a professional architect, b…
Letter from T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) to Leonard Woolley

Between 1911 and 1914 a British Museum expedition carried ou…
Notes on the application of Henry Hook, V.C., for a post as a labourer at The British Museum

The man whose name appears on this document could not fill i…
Report by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge to the Trustees of The British Museum

Between December 1898 and January 1899, Wallis Budge visited…
Robert Smirke, South Elevation of the North Wing, a drawing

The North Wing was designed by Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867)…
Roger Fenton, The Discus-thrower (discobolos), a photograph

In this unusual photograph by Roger Fenton we see a famous R…
Roger Fenton, The Mineral Gallery, a photograph

In 1857 the Mineral collection of The British Museum was dis…
Roger Fenton, The Third Graeco-Roman Saloon on Artists' Day, a photograph

This photograph by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), the famous Vict…

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