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Untitled (Stainless Steel Tree)
 Acquired 2016
Ashes
 Acquired 2016
Acquired
Woven Rug
 Acquired 1963
Woman in a Grey Hat, Seated at a Table
 Acquired 1926
Woman and two men in an interior
 Acquired 2010
Within the Shadow of the Church & Near Bude, Coastal Scene
 Acquired 2009
Willow Tree & Barn Interior
 Acquired 2009
Whiteleaf Cross
 Acquired 1979
Weymouth Bay from the Downs, with Portland Island in the Distance, Dorset
 Acquired 1949
Westminster Abbey from Dean's Yard
 Acquired 2002
Walter Butterworth, Esq., M.A.1
 Acquired 1969
Wallpaper panel: Les Prodigues or Souper a la Maison doré
 Acquired 2005
Walberswick Marshes, Suffolk
 Acquired 1923
Vue de ma Fenêtre (From my Window)
 Acquired 1926
View of the Thames from Greenwich Park looking over Greenwich Hospital towards St Paul's
 Acquired 1972
View of St Paul du Vas, France
 Acquired 1926
View of Southwick, from the Estuary
 Acquired 1923
View of Rochester, Kent, from across the River Medway
 Acquired 1945
View of Mdina, Malta & Monte d'Oro, Corsica & The Monastery of Mar Saba, Jordan
 Acquired 1963
View of Chatam, Kent, from Across the River Medway
 Acquired 1923
Valley of Chamonix, France, Mont Blanc in the Distance
 Acquired 1955
Untitled (Long Indigo Hanging)
 Acquired 2010
Unloading The Boats & Study for 'La Plage'
 Acquired 1926
Tynemouth Pier: North-East Wind
 Acquired 2010
Two tent bands
 Acquired 1931
Two Hyacinth Bulbs
 Acquired Not in Review
Two drawings of Seville
 Acquired 2005
Triptych: Silver Birches & Bindweed & Beneath a Rotting Tree
 Acquired 1993
Travelling Chess Set
 Acquired 2009
Tourist Box
 Acquired 2003
The Wedding of Belle and Parc
 Acquired 2001
The Unexpected Visitor
 Acquired 2009
The Steps of Greenwich Hospital
 Acquired 2002
The Sleeping Shepherd
 Acquired 1954
The Roman Forum
 Acquired 1999
The River Kent at Staveley, Westmorland
 Acquired 1926
The Rag-Pickers
 Acquired 1926
The Plait (Portrait of Petra, the Artist's Daughter) & Portrait of Young Girl
 Acquired 1923
The Philosopher (Triptych)
 Acquired 1931
The Musicians
 Acquired 1987
The Lost Receipt
 Acquired 1949
The Kennet and Avon Canal from Sydney Buildings, Bath
 Acquired Not in Review
The Island of Monserrat From the Road before the Town
 Acquired 1994
The Harbour
 Acquired 1931
The Grand Square and Marketplace, Carmona, near Seville (recto); Studies of the Tower and Facade (verso)
 Acquired 1960
The Facade, St Jacques, Dieppe
 Acquired 1969
The Downs from Bungalow Town
 Acquired 1923
The Dawn
 Acquired 1942
The Continence of Scipio
 Acquired 1960
The Casino at Marino, Dublin
 Acquired 1963
The Case For Intervention & Charcoal Drawings
 Acquired 1949
The Cascades, Tivoli, Italy
 Acquired 1963
The Bay
 Acquired 1923
The Basilica of Maxentius, Rome
 Acquired 1973
The Avon Gorge with Hotwells House, Bristol & The Avon Gorge looking towards the Bristol Channel
 Acquired 2005
The Avenue, San Marcello, Italy
 Acquired 1926
Tavern Scene
 Acquired Not in Review
Tahitian Landscape
 Acquired 1931
Susannah
 Acquired 1926
Summer Flowers
 Acquired 2005
Study of Trees in Spring
 Acquired 1949
Study of Trees at Canonteign, Devon
 Acquired 2001
Study of Sorrel, Cow Parsley and Willow Saplings
 Acquired 1996
Study of Ruins in the Baths of Caracalla
 Acquired 1994
Study of a Young Shepherdess
 Acquired 1923
Study of a Pallbearer for 'Dante's Dream'
 Acquired 1923
Study of a Nude Torso of a Bearded Man & Landscape
 Acquired 1926
Study of a Girl's Head in Profile
 Acquired 1926
Study for the Laidley Worm
 Acquired 2006
Study for 'Rouen with the Tower of St. Ouen - Sunset'
 Acquired 2002
Study for 'L'Ennui'
 Acquired 1928
Study for 'Galway'
 Acquired 1923
Streatley Bridge
 Acquired 2009
Still Life
 Acquired 1926
Stage Setting for 'The Merchant of Venice', Act IV, Scene I
 Acquired 1932
St Peter's from the Villa Borghese, Rome
 Acquired 1985
St Mark's, Venice
 Acquired 2009
St Christopher's: The Salt Pond, Part of St Christopher's and Nevis from the Shore at Basseterre
 Acquired 1994
St Christopher
 Acquired 1935
St Agnes Eve
 Acquired 2009
Spring in North London, 2 Houghton Place
 Acquired 1984
Southwold from Walberswick
 Acquired 2009
Smith Lane, Windsor Park
 Acquired 1923
Slopes of Glyder Fawr, Llyn Adwal, Caernarvonshire, Wales
 Acquired 1986
Sketchbook
 Acquired 1977
Sketchbook
 Acquired 1949
Six studies of trees in Alderly Park, Cheshire
 Acquired 1981
Six illustrations to 'The Book of Kings'
 Acquired 1934
Shipping off the Dutch Coast
 Acquired 1928
Shindigo Space 07
 Acquired 2009
Sheep Shearing
 Acquired 1923
Shadow of the Wall, Gaza
 Acquired 2008
Setting Sun
 Acquired 1997
Santa Maria de Monti
 Acquired 2002
San Gimignano, Italy
 Acquired 2002
Rome from the Villa Madama
 Acquired 1994
Road by the River, Chouzy-sur-Cisse, France & View Down a Street, Amboisse, France
 Acquired 1926
River Scene
 Acquired 1972
Return from the Hunt
 Acquired 2001
Punters on the Cam
 Acquired 2006
Providence - barge on the Thames & Summertime - two girls, baby and rag doll
 Acquired 2009
Poverty
 Acquired 1928
Portrait Study of Ruth Herbert
 Acquired 1923
Portrait of Mrs Thomas Holroyd and Her Daughter, Sarah Morgan
 Acquired 1939
Poachers Alarmed
 Acquired 1923
Passage
 Acquired 1992
Panel
 Acquired 1931
Palm Sunday
 Acquired 2009
P. Kasuri 206 (Red and White)
 Acquired 2012
On the Boulevards, Dinan
 Acquired 2009
Odalisque Couchée
 Acquired 2006
Netley Mill
 Acquired 1926
Near Symonds Rock, girl holding a bottle
 Acquired 2009
Naples from the Hills Above, with the Island of Capri in the Distance
 Acquired 1988
My Son's Wife, Eliza, Three Figures and Buildings
 Acquired 2009
Mr Brian O'Lin (Study of a Chinese Boy)
 Acquired 1994
Mother and Child & Mouth of the Fal
 Acquired 1926
Market Day, South of France
 Acquired 1931
Man and Horse
 Acquired 1926
Loch Katrine: A Colour Beginning
 Acquired 1923
Les Baigneuses
 Acquired 1926
Les Arbres en Hiver
 Acquired 1931
Le devenir de l’être humain, parlant du destin de l’être humain, et faisant voir le destin de l’être humain; Le Roi d’Angletrre et la reine d’Angleterre (The becoming of the Human Being, Talking about the Destiny of the Human Being
 Acquired 2013
Landscape with Ruins
 Acquired 1923
Landscape with Farm Buildings
 Acquired 1981
Landscape with a Windmill
 Acquired 1926
Landscape with a Cottage and Haybarn
 Acquired 1984
Landscape
 Acquired 2010
Landscape
 Acquired 2009
Lake Scene with Cattle
 Acquired 1923
La Vieille Chaumiàre, Finistàre
 Acquired 1927
La Tauromaquia
 Acquired 1988
La Repasseuse
 Acquired 1926
Jungle Garden with a Figure
 Acquired 1980
Julia Appearing to Pompey in a Dream
 Acquired 1960
John Deth (Hommage to Conrad Aiken) (recto); Study of a Dinner Party (verso)
 Acquired 1983
Interior of San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
 Acquired 2002
Hulme Hall, Lancashire
 Acquired 1936
Head and Shoulders of a Girl
 Acquired 1923
Harvest Scene
 Acquired 1976
Group of three works: Jerusalem; Spilt Milk (Bethlehem) and Oil Stain (Jerusalem); War, Peace (2015)
 Acquired 2016
Greenwich Hospital
 Acquired 2005
Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran & Monteith, Perthshire
 Acquired 1926
Girl's Head and Shoulders
 Acquired 2009
Girl with Slate
 Acquired 2009
Genesis
 Acquired 1999
Full-length Study of Dorelia & Group of Figures in a Landscape, Le Paradou, France
 Acquired 1926
Four Italian landscapes
 Acquired 1985
Five illustrations
 Acquired 1934
Fir Trees
 Acquired 1957
Faith and Hope
 Acquired 1997
Expulsion of Adam and Eve
 Acquired 1960
Ennui (large plate) & Ennui (medium plate)
 Acquired 2004
En Bretagne
 Acquired 1926
El Dorado Springs
 Acquired 2011
Egyptian hanging or cover
 Acquired 1942
Dutch Landscape
 Acquired 1926
Drawing of a Girl's Head
 Acquired 2009
Drawing
 Acquired 1949
Drawing
 Acquired 1949
Dans un Loge d'Artist (In an Artist's Studio)
 Acquired 1926
Dancer
 Acquired 2004
Dance of the Worlds
 Acquired 2001
Cover design for magazine, Counterpoint
 Acquired 2001
Convents, near Capo di Monte, Naples & Villa Negroni, Rome
 Acquired 1963
Coniston Lake, Lancashire
 Acquired 1926
Collection of textiles and embroidery
 Acquired 1955
Collection of seven sketchbooks
 Acquired 1975
Collection of Prints
 Acquired 1937
Collection of etchings
 Acquired 1929
Collection of drawings and wood engravings
 Acquired 1923
Collection of drawings
 Acquired 1925
Classical Landscape with Buildings and Cattle at a Pool & Cottage and Trees & Cattle on a Road
 Acquired 1926
Classical Landscape
 Acquired 1960
Civita Castellana
 Acquired 2009
Chestnut Buds & Corfu
 Acquired 2009
Chateaudun, street scene
 Acquired 2009
Cetera, a Fishing Town on the Gulf of Salerno, Italy
 Acquired 1985
Canterbury Cathedral and St Augustine's Gateway
 Acquired 1921
Canterbury Castle, near the Postern Gate of St Mildred's Church Yard
 Acquired 1966
Cain and Abel
 Acquired 1926
Between Srinager and Tacanandra & Chevalpettore
 Acquired 2005
Autumn Midnight & Girl in a Bath
 Acquired 1926
Art and design from the Walter Crane archive
 Acquired 2002
Architectural Drawings of French Buildings
 Acquired 1918
An Archway in Assisi, Italy
 Acquired 1945
An album of drawings
 Acquired 1944
A Young Girl Seated at a Desk Copying a Painting
 Acquired 1971
A Woodede Landscape with Sheep in the Foreground near Bettws-y-Coed
 Acquired 2000
A Street in North Paris
 Acquired 2003
A Ruined Abbey on a River
 Acquired 1945
A Mountainous Landscape with a Distant Castle
 Acquired 1926
A Mountain Gorge & Study of a Tree
 Acquired 1931
5 studies of antique vases
 Acquired 1981
3 Drawings
 Acquired 2001
21 Stones series; No. 1, No.2, No. 3, No. 8, No. 11, No. 17 and No.19
 Acquired 2012
10 drawings
 Acquired 1999
1) Whitby: harbour, church and Abbey; 2) Near Penzance
 Acquired 2009
1) Two figures; 2) Woman with Apple; 3) Monotype III
 Acquired 2009
1) Studies of Male Nude; 2) Studies of Drapery
 Acquired 2009
1) Springtime; 2) Watermeadow - picking flowers; 3) Boulogne Shrimpers; 4) The Farmer's Last Harvest; 5) Mowers with Elm Trees
 Acquired 2009
1) Rouen: narrow street and cathedral; 2) Votive offering Fougéres
 Acquired 2009
1) Head and Shoulders Study of Mrs Ritchie; 2) Two Heads for Lyndhurst Church; 3) Decorative Classical Scene
 Acquired 2009
1) Crossing a Mountain Pass in Spain; 2) Moscow; 3) Study for 'The Shepherdess'
 Acquired 1931
1) Classical Landscape; 2) The Colonnade of the Old Library of St Marks, Venice; 3) Study of a Girl; 4) Fatima; 5) Study for 'The Vestibule'; 6) Cyclamen; 7) Still Life
 Acquired 1926
1) Barge on the Arun, Evening; 2) Dorchester, Oxon; 3) St Mark's, Venice, Interior
 Acquired 2009


Exhibitions at The Whitworth

Turkish embroidered napkin, 1750-1850

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

  • The Whitworth, Manchester
  • Until 3 November 2019
  • Free to all
Li Yuan-chia, Untitled, c1993

Li Yuan-chia: Unique Photographs

  • The Whitworth, Manchester
  • Until 15 December 2019
  • Free to all
William Hogarth, The Enraged Musician, 1741 (detail)

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

  • The Whitworth, Manchester
  • Until 4 August 2019
  • Free to all
Unattributed, lithographic poster representing salesmen and customer in a wallpaper showroom, 1899-1901

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

  • The Whitworth, Manchester
  • 16 August 2019 – 1 July 2020
  • Free to all
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