Portrait of Mrs Pearce, daughter of Mrs Bryan, in black satin dress with white sleeves, white fichu and mob-cap, seated at a table lace-making.

This group of beautiful designs for silk are almost all by James Leman and the earliest silk designs to have survived anywhere. Bound into a fragile nineteenth century volume, they are executed in ...

Geraniums and Carnations is a classic watercolour scene by the English painter and printmaker Eric Ravilious. Pink geraniums are shown lined up in terracotta pots in a wooden-framed greenhouse, with ...

This work is part of a collection of late 20th-century British paintings donated through the Art Fund to four galleries. All eight paintings take as their subject the human figure. The five works that ...

Sent by Abraham to find a bride for his son Isaac, Eliezer chooses the girl who gives him water both for himself and for his ten camels. In this painting Eliezer is drinking at the well while a group ...

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The Galloway (standing) Mazer or drinking vessel. The maplewood bowl rests on a collar over a baluster stem chased with acanthus fronds on tooled ground and a compressed knop. The circular foot is ...

Frederic Leighton was one of the most feted and highly respected artists of his generation and became the first British artist ever to have been raised to the peerage. He had two sisters, Alexandra, ...

The five works are: Frog and Ox; Hare and Tortoise; Gnat and Lion; Frog, Mouse and Kite; Peacock and Magpie (main illustration). One of the prime objectives of the Fry Art Gallery is to collect and ...

Wangechi Mutu’s collage series Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors has been described as ‘one of the greatest examples of contemporary Black feminist art’. This is the original work ...

The infant orphan election was an unpleasant example of Victorian charity, held at the London Tavern in Bishopsgate Street. Children whose parents had once been in more prosperous circumstances were ...

A group of seven stage set designs and one poster design for Maurice Maeterlinck's 'fairy play', The Blue Bird which premiered at the Haymarket Theatre in December 1909. Robinson was responsible for ...