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Drawings (including wash or watercolour paintings) held in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, and prints with a special connection with the collection that is mentioned in the article, for example unique copies. Most common, and very many rare prints, will also be in the collection, but should not be categorized here.
The Catalogue of paintings in the National Gallery, London is the collection catalogue listing the paintings of the National Gallery, London collection, as they were catalogued in 2010 by the Public Catalogue Foundation. The collection contains roughly 2,300 paintings by 750 artists, and only attributed artists are listed here.
It is home to one of the world's greatest collections of Western European paintings. Founded in 1824, from an initial purchase of 36 paintings by the British Government, its collections have since grown to about 2,300 paintings by roughly 750 artists dating from the mid-13th century to 1900, most of which are on display.
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Objects in the collection of the British Museum, London, England, sorted by department. See also Category:British Library collections, which were part of the British Museum before the establishment of the British Library in 1973.
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 objects – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) to ...
All the pages were reproduced in a book on the Liber Veritatis by Michael Kitson, and all are now available online on the British Museum website. The Liber Veritatis inspired J. M. W. Turner to assemble his Liber Studiorum (Latin: Book of Studies, a collection of 71 prints after his paintings and watercolours printed from 1807 to 1819. [28]
This is an incomplete list of painters in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, with the number of artworks represented, and sorted by century of birth. For more information about the collection which comprises more than 3,000 paintings, see Rijksmuseum. More than 300 works are by unknown or anonymous painters, and though over 1,000 individual ...