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Takehisa Yumeji, 'Princess Tatsuta' (Tatsuta-hime), a colour woodblock print
Tatsuta-hime, the Shintō goddess of autumn and the harv…
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The river festival at Tsushima shrine, a pair of 8-fold screen paintings
This large impressive pair of eight-fold screens shows the b…
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The Six Realms of Birth, 10 hanging scroll paintings
The six realms of birth ( rokudō ), as interpreted by t…
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Torii Kiyonaga, A girl dancing with shell clappers under her feet, a woodblock print
It is the little girl who steals the show in this intricatel…
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Torii Kiyonaga, Travellers at Enoshima, a triptych of colour woodblock prints
This view of Mt Fuji is across Sagami Bay from Katase Beach.…
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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Empress Jingu leading the invasion of Korea, a preparatory drawing and colour woodblock print
The scene features Empress Jingū, a legendary regent of…
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Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Evening bell at Mii Temple' (Mii bansho), a colour woodblock print
The 'Eight Views of Lake Biwa' (near Kyoto) were first estab…
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Utagawa Hiroshige, 'The Sea at Satta, Suruga Province' (Suruga Satta kaijo), a colour woodblock print
This print is one of the series 'Thirty-six views of Mount F…
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Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Yui: Satta Peak' (Yui, Satta-mine), a colour woodblock print
Mt Fuji was highly visible along much of the main Tōkai…
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Utagawa Kunimasa, The actor Ichikawa Ebizo in a shibaraku role, a colour woodblock print
Kunimasa (1773-1810) designed this print as a tribute to the…
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Utagawa Kunisada, Beauty beside a standing lantern, a colour woodblock print
In the middle of the night, a courtesan gets up to trim the …
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Princess Takiyasha summons a skeleton spectre to frighten Mitsukuni, a triptych of colour woodblock p
Princess Takiyasha was the daughter of the provincial warlor…
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Utagawa Sadahide, European Toy Stall, a woodblock print
A toy-stall has been decked out with a display of toys - dol…
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Yang Yanping, Autumn Lotus Pond, a horizontal scroll painting
Yang Yanping (born 1934) is one of the most exciting Chinese…
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Yi Che-gwan (attributed to), Portrait of a Confucian scholar, a painting
There is a very similar painting in the National Museum of K…
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Yokoi Kinkoku, Lakeside village in the mountains, a hanging scroll painting
Yokoi Kinkoku (1761-1832) was a painter-priest of the Jod…
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Zhao Zongzao, Highland Barley, a series of 3 woodblock prints
Zhao Zongzao (born 1931) is a member of the China National A…
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Assignat note for 50 sols
From 1789, the new revolutionary government of France tried …
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Carlisle City and District Banking Company, proof of £5 note
Early banknotes were printed from copper plates and usually …
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Commercial Bank of Scotland, design for £20 note
In the nineteenth century, Scottish notes were more likely t…
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Cumberland and Carlisle Bank £5 note
Today banknote manufacture is a specialized branch of securi…
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Equitable Labour Exchange note worth 10 hours work
This unusual note was issued as part of a scheme set up by R…
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Exchequer Bill for £100
Interest-bearing Exchequer Bills were introduced in England …
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Forged £1 note of the Halifax Bank
In Great Britain in the early nineteenth century, the many d…
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Fox, Fowler & Co. £5 note
Today the right to issue money is tightly controlled, and th…
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Great Qing Treasure Certificate
The four Chinese characters arranged right to left across th…
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$HK1 note of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
This is Hong Kong's last banknote based on the silver dollar…
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Hundi (Indian bill of exchange)
A bill of exchange is a written note given by one person to …
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Prototype 20 euro note
From 1 January 2002, eleven countries in the European Union …
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Queen Victoria's Jubilee souvenir badge
Large numbers of these badges were sold as souvenirs of Quee…
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Two 50 rial banknotes
Modern banknotes often carry the portrait of the country's h…
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$US1 note
In the mid-nineteenth century, individual banks in the Ameri…
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$US500 note
During the American Civil War (1861-65), the southern states…
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1 guinea note, Royal Bank of Scotland
In 1777 the Royal Bank of Scotland introduced this note, pri…
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£1 note
The Bank of New Zealand was a private bank, founded in 1861.…
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£1 siege note
In time of war, people have often shown ingenuity in printin…
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£1 Treasury note
The First World War (1914-18) placed great demands on Britai…
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10 dollar note for Malaya
There were many unusual issues of paper money during the Sec…
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$10 note
This mass-produced banknote illustrates the traditional manu…
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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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£10 note, Bank of England
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is famous across the world …
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100 daler note
The first banknotes in Europe were issued in Sweden by the S…
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100 qurush note
In the mid-1870s the Ottoman Empire was in decline and facin…
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100 srang note
The earliest Tibetan paper money was issued in 1912. At firs…
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1000 franc note
This banknote from the Republic of Congo represents the chan…
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1000 ruble note
The imposing profile of Lenin on this note is a powerful sym…
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1000 ruble note
When a country experiences profound political or constitutio…
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100,000 lire banknote
There is a long tradition of reproducing works of art on a m…
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1,000,000 mark note
Banknotes for huge sums of money sound like a dream come tru…
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10s note, Bank of England
A common security feature of many modern banknotes is a vert…
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1/8th tical note
Today we can tell the value of a banknote by looking at clea…
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£5 note, Bank of England
The first Bank of England notes to be printed in colour were…
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£5 note of the Scarborough Bank, York City and County Banking Company
This note is dominated by an imposing view of York Minster e…
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5 sum note
Early in the twentieth century some of the regions that now …
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50 livres note, Banque Royale
The first banknotes in France were issued by John Law, a sel…
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50 Pfennig note
During the First World War (1914-18) a shortage of coins enc…
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500,000,000,000 dinar note
The astonishing denomination of this note - five hundred tho…
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£6 note
From the late seventeenth century, the British colonies in N…
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Giovanni Machion, Plants from the garden at Padua, an album
This volume of plants used in medicine is one of four prepar…
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Hans Sloane, Natural History of Jamaica, a book
This book provides a remarkable account of the travels and o…
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A lion attacking a deer, stencilled scene of découpage paper shapes
This intricately-worked scene depicts a lion pouncing on a d…
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Back cover of a bookbinding
A series of long cartouches is cut out of the leather surfac…
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Miskin (attributed to), The crow addresses the animals, a mounted miniature in gouache on paper
A throng of creatures from the earth, sea and air gathers ar…
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Page from a manuscript of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica
The scene takes place in a beautiful house. Two doctors sit …
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Peter Mundy, A briefe relation of the Turckes, their Kings, Emperors or Grandsigneurs, their conquests, religion, custom
Peter Mundy was an English traveller in Istanbul in 1618. In…
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Portrait of Sultan Ibrahim cAdil Shah II, an album painting in gouache on paper
Ibrahim c Adil Shah II was a descendant of the Ottoman dynas…
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Abraham Bosse, Intaglio Printing, an etching
Bosse (1602-76) was a prolific etcher of scenes from contemp…
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Adriaen van Ostade, Peasants Playing Gallet Outside an Inn, pen and brown ink with watercolour
Adriaen (1610-85) and his younger brother, Isack (1621-49), …
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