Caprice #1
Harry Snook Caprice #1, 1994 Mixed media or assemblage 200mm x 280mm x 65mm This work consists of four items attached to a painted background that could be seen as a sky. Starting from the left, the first ...
Door Slightly Open
David Tindle (born 1932) Door Slightly Open, 1978 Tempera on masonite 523mm x 818mm
Drawing 1981
Alan Johnston Drawing 1981,1981 Pencil and gesso on wood 460mm x 610mm Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1982 The small pencil marks in Johnston’s work would be almost imperceptible, but together ...
Egyptian painted wood panel, upper section
This panel, from the tomb of Djed-Khonsu-lues-Ankh, is around 2,500 years old.
Together with the bottom section of the panel, it is a prayer asking for a supply of beer, bread and oxen for use in the ...
Embroidered Picture
This silk embroidered picture of a garden scene is called 'When Nature Smiles'. The picture was embroidered by Mrs W. Gilpin Brown.
Fish
Leonard Appelbee (born 1914) Fish Oil on board 330mm x 400mm Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1954 Appelbee studied in London in the 1930s, shortly before the Second World War. This painting ...
Gossip
Averil Mary Burleigh (fl. 1920-1949, died 1949) Gossip Tempera on board 488mm x 608mm Scene of women talking, there are goats and a village in the background.
Goya 2/4 - Letters From The Artist (Dear Amber)
Terry Atkinson (born 1939) Goya 2/4 - Letters from the Artist (Dear Amber), 1986 Mixed media on board 1200mm x 2400mm
Green Landscape
Anthony Whishaw Green Landscape Acrylic on canvas 2132mm x 1825mm Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest Whishaw has been influenced by two strands of art, American Abstract Expressionism and ...
High Room
David Tindle (born 1932) High Room, 1989 Egg tempera on masonite 660mm x 800mm A room scene with a view towards the ceiling.
Major Abiathar Hawkes
Mr Keynan (fl. 1803) Major Abiathar Hawkes, June 1803 Oil and pencil on ivory 81mm x 65mm A miniature portrait of Major Abiathar Hawkes, painted in Windsor in June 1803.
Old Man and Donkey
This is a collage of fabric, watercolour, ink and charcoal on paper depicting an old postman with his donkey and was made by George Smart in 1833. An inscription on the reverse reads 'G. Smart, Artist ...
Old Man and Donkey
This is a collage of fabric, watercolour, ink and charcoal on paper depicting an old postman with his donkey and was made by George Smart in 1833. An inscription on the reverse reads 'G. Smart, Artist ...
Outdoor Still Life
Terry Atkinson (b. 1939) Outdoor Still Life, 1958 Gouache and polyfilla on paper on board Purchased with assistance from the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 2005 Atkinson painted Outdoor Still Life while ...
Reminiscence
Frederick Cayley Robinson (18th August 1862 - 4th January 1927) Reminiscence, 1908 Tempera on board 460mm x 610mm A scene with two men in a doorway to the left and two women and a girl to the bottom right. ...
Template For My Future Plastic Surgery
Marc Quinn (b.1964) Template For My Future Plastic Surgery, 2002 Photographic print 1590mm x 500mm In this work, Quinn explores the relationship between physical appearance and the inner self. This work ...
The Bridge
Frederick Cayley Robinson (18th August 1862 - 4th January 1927) The Bridge, 1905 Mixed media on panel 220mm x 280mm Cayley Robinson’s work owes much to the work of the later Pre-Raphaelite period. The ...
The Earth Stopper
This is a mixed media work by an unknown artist dating from about 1840. It depicts an earth stopper who stops us a fox's earth the evening before a hunt, confronted by a sweep.
A cutting stuck on the ...