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The project was devised as a protest at the closure of the original Bristol Art Library. [1] [2] The library consists of handmade identically-bound books on a wide range subjects produced by individual contributors from all areas of the arts and sciences, each catalogued according to the Dewey Decimal System. The books are contained within a ...
About 2,000 of Loxton's original drawings were left to Bristol Central Library. [6] The library have scanned these and made copies of them available on its Flikr site, [7] at resolutions ranging up to c. 200 KB. The Bristol Record Society produced higher-resolution scans of some of the images (up to 6 MB), taken from Stone's volume. [4]
James Johnson (1803–1834) was an English architectural draughtsman, watercolourist and oil painter who was a member of the Bristol School of artists. He contributed nearly 50 drawings of scenes from Bristol, England to the topographical collection of George Weare Braikenridge.
These are held in Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, with related collections of manuscripts and other items held by Bristol Central Library and Bristol Archives. [1] The Braikenridge Collection has become the most important historical record of Bristol's appearance in the early 19th century, and makes Bristol one of the best documented ...
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery run a programme of free and paid events throughout the year that include multi week exhibitions, workshops and drop in gallery curator talks. The biggest annual event is the weekend celebration for Chinese New Year during February which has dancing dragon and lion performances, martial arts, traditional Chinese ...
Bristol Zoo: 1971: David Wynne: Sculpture: Bronze on steel piller with a concrete base: 3.5m wide [2] Girl and Kid Bristol Zoo: c.1975: Roy Clapp Statue: Alabaster: 1m high [2] Ying and Yang Bristol Zoo: 2001: Julian P Warren Sculpture of 2 stag beetles: Black painted metal: 3.3m long [2] Wendy the elephant Bristol Zoo
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The drawings are now held in the British Library, and cover most of England south of a line between Liverpool and Kingston upon Hull, as well as parts of Wales. The drawings provide a unique record of landscapes and land use in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, of the expanding canal and turnpike road networks, and of place-names.