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Prelude to Cantata Profana: Paroxysm’s rehearsal room, Kassel
Matt Stokes (1973 - )
Storytime
Rachel Whiteread (1963 - )
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Melancholia
Gavin Turk (1967 - )
The Guardian
Paula Rego (1935 - 2022)
Cinderella
Dexter Dalwood (1960 - )
101 Drawings
John, and Harrison Paul Wood (1966; 1969 - )
Public House
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
Moscovia Urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae
Franz Hogenberg (c.1540 - c.1590)
Gossip
Boyd and Evans (1944; 1945 - )
Porch, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire
Joseph Nash (1808 - 1878)
Nude
Malcolm Midwood Milne (1887 - 1954)
Bathers
Brian Peacock (1935 - 2004)
Colloquy
Michael Ayrton (1921 - 1975)
untitled [television set and clipboard]
Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )
“Just Pretend it’s not There George….”
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
untitled [television set and clipboard]
Michael Craig-Martin (1941 - )
“To my People” [written by King George V from Marlborough House, 22 May 1910, following the death of his father, King Edward VII]
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912)
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Le Boudoir
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
Sigmund Freudenberger (1745 - 1801)
Pierre Maleuvre (1740 - 1803)
Night Bivouac of the British Army at Ferozshah on the 21st December 1845
Henry Martens ( - 1854)
John, III Harris (1811 - 1865)
Shepherd’s Meal
George Morland (1763 - 1804)
John Raphael Smith (1752 - 1812)
The Bench
William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Café Bar
Colin Unwin Gill (1892 - 1940)
Thirsty Work
B W Roland Batchelor (1889 - 1990)
The Registering Angel
Boyd and Evans (1944; 1945 - )
Estuary of the Somme at Le Crotoy
Thomas Alfred Liverton (1907 - 1973)
Hall, Moat House, Ightham, Kent
Joseph Nash (1808 - 1878)
Water Engine, Cold-Bath-Fields Prison
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
Les Confidences
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
Sigmund Freudenberger (1745 - 1801)
Charles Louis Lingée (1748 - 1819)
Market
James Fitton (1899 - 1982)
Encampment at Scutari on the Bosphorus
Amadeo Preziosi (1816 - 1882)
Ataraipu, or the Devil’s Rock
Charles Bentley (1806 - 1854)
John Richard Coke Smyth (1808 - 1882)
Plate 6
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Gulliver Reclining
James Millar (1945 - )
The Needles
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Frances Anne Crewe (neé Greville), Lady Crewe (1748-1818) as St. Genevieve
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Thomas Watson ( - 1781)
The Angels of Boulogne
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Sixth-Form Bench, Eton
Percival Skelton
Croatian Guards
Amadeo Preziosi (1816 - 1882)
South View of Windsor Castle
Richard, Jnr Cooper (c.1740 - after 1817)
Samuel Alken (1756 - 1815)
Sleeping Statue, London
Howard Jeffs (1944 - )
Divine Arrangement
Peter Standen (1936 - )
Middle Mill, Wandsworth
George Vincent (1796 - 1831)
An Unwelcome Visit
George Moutard Woodward (1760 - 1809)
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
The Encampment in the Museum Garden, 1780
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
The “Age” Brighton Coach in 1852
William Joseph Shayer (1811 - 1892)
Charles, I Hunt (1803 - 1877)
Water Engine, Cold Bath Fields Prison
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
The South East Prospect of the City of Bath
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (1696 - 1779)
Horse Guards Parade: the Foreign Office from St. James’s Park
British 19th century unknown
Buckingham Palace from St. James’s Park
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874)
Troops Playing with Children, Borghese Gardens, Rome
Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)
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