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Head of the Emperor Claudius, in Parian marble.
In a strongly Greek style, idealised and 'making the Emperor look as much like Augustus as possible'.
Provenance
Unknown.
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La Bouche Du Roi
Acquired 2006
The Shropshire bulla
Acquired 2020
Statue of Alexander the Great
Acquired 1922
Portrait of Princess Anne, eldest daughter of George II
Acquired 1918
'St James' - study for an altarpiece
Acquired 1997
An important group of 16 lithographs and 3 aquatints
Acquired 2016
Night Bloom II
Acquired
The Burghers of Calais
Acquired 1913
Courtesan Reading a Letter
Acquired 2015
The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Acquired 1989
Gold reliquary
Acquired 1926
Coin-set pendant
Acquired 1985
Icon of St John the Baptist
Acquired 1987
Vale of York Viking Hoard
Acquired 2009
10 drawings
Acquired 1999
Young couple in a landscape
Acquired 1997
Workshop of a manufacturer of musical instruments
Acquired 1997
Worcester Cathedral from the River
Acquired 2002
Wooden masks
Acquired 1951
Wooden mask
Acquired 1943
Wooden drum
Acquired 1942
Wooded landscape with figures on a path
Acquired 1997
Wooded landscape
Acquired 1936
Wooded landscape
Acquired 1935
Wood Gatherers (study)
Acquired 1919
Women on the Ryõgoku Bridge
Acquired 1918
Woman carrying Child & Two Seated Figures
Acquired 1951
Winged Beast
Acquired 1913
Windermere
Acquired 1948
Winchester Hoard
Acquired 2001
Wild Geese by a Mountain Stream
Acquired 1912
Whitehall
Acquired 1941
Well
Acquired 2005
Wegener Collection of 147 Chinese paintings
Acquired 1910
Watercolours
Acquired 1948
Volume of 35 architectural plates
Acquired 1904
Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist
Acquired 1997
Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Acquired 1928
Virgin and Child on a crescent moon
Acquired 1997
Virgin and Child in Glory
Acquired 1997
View on a Quay
Acquired 1951
View of the walls of Rome near Porto San Sebastiano
Acquired 1925
View of the Harbour of Valetta, Malta
Acquired 1946
View of Olmutz, Moravia
Acquired 1975
View of Nuremberg with the Church of St. Egidino..
Acquired 1923
View of Landshut
Acquired 1997
View of Granada
Acquired 1997
View of Frankeker
Acquired 1967
View of Ehrenbreitstein
Acquired 1997
View of Campo Vaccino
Acquired 1948
View Inside New Prison, Rome & A View of a Prison
Acquired 1924
Venus and Cupid
Acquired 1997
Venus & Aeneas and Ascanius
Acquired 1922
Venetian calcedonio glass jug
Acquired 1911
Urban Scene
Acquired 2001
Untitled (Large Embassy with Red Mirror) - Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography
Acquired 2009
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
Acquired 2008
Two Views at Bruges
Acquired 1948
Two untitled drawings
Acquired 2015
Two studies of a mother and child
Acquired 1997
Two studies of a child holding flowers
Acquired 1997
Two studies for the conversion of St Paul
Acquired 1997
Two studies for a Virgin and Child
Acquired 1997
Two standing female saints
Acquired 1997
Two standing cloaked male figures
Acquired 1997
Two series of drawings
Acquired 1944
Two sculptures of Bodhisattvas
Acquired 1988
Two Russian Icons
Acquired 1960
Two riders on horseback, in theatrical costume
Acquired 1997
Two Putti with the Arms of Camillo Pamphili
Acquired 1992
Two painted panels
Acquired 1995
Two Japanese screens
Acquired 1995
Two Hungarian shaft-hole axes
Acquired 2001
Two fragments of a crucifix
Acquired 1994
Two drill bows
Acquired 1949
Two drawings
Acquired 1927
Two drawings
Acquired 1946
Two bronze drinking bowls from ancient Iran
Acquired 1995
Two artists on a jetty
Acquired 1951
Two angels holding a monstrance
Acquired 1997
Tudor House
Acquired 1948
Tudor hat-medallion
Acquired 1955
Travelling clock
Acquired 1994
Toilet box
Acquired 1940
Tigre Royal
Acquired 1923
Tigers Crossing a River
Acquired 2006
Throwing Off & Breaking Cover & In Full Cry & The Death
Acquired 1933
Three studies of heads
Acquired 1997
Three Studies of a Bishop
Acquired 1946
Three Silver Cups
Acquired 1959
Three figures in a boat
Acquired 1997
Three bronzes
Acquired 1957
Three angels feeding a small child in a wood
Acquired 1997
The Yemeni Sailors of South Shields (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
Acquired 2009
The Wise Man and the Wise Woman
Acquired 1933
The Wheel of Fortune
Acquired 1997
The Warren Cup
Acquired 1999
The Visitation
Acquired 1922
The Visit of St Benedict to St Scholastica
Acquired 1927
The Vision of St. Augustine
Acquired 1934
The Virtuoso
Acquired 1934
The Virgin Mary in an attitude of prayer
Acquired 1910
The Virgin and Child with Two Putti
Acquired 1946
The Virgin and Child with Saint George
Acquired 1998
The Virgin and Child seated by a table
Acquired 1997
The Vale of Aylesbury Steeple Chase,1836
Acquired 1933
The Tristram Casket
Acquired 1947
The Trinity Medal
Acquired 1908
The Trinity
Acquired 1910
The Tring tiles
Acquired 1922
The Toilet of Salome
Acquired 1919
The Table of Cebes
Acquired 2000
The Stonyhurst Salt
Acquired 1958
The Snettisham Treasure
Acquired 1951
The Savernake horn
Acquired 1975
The Sacrifice of Jepthah's Daughter
Acquired 1949
The Rutland Tiles
Acquired 1947
The Rusper chalice
Acquired 1996
The Roman Charity
Acquired 1927
The Rock and Castle of Seclusion
Acquired 1919
The River Forth from its Source to the Sea
Acquired 1922
The Ringlemere Cup
Acquired 2003
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Acquired 1910
The Revenue Cutter
Acquired 1930
The Rat Catcher
Acquired 1939
The Rape of Europa
Acquired 1997
The Queen of the Night Relief (The Burney Relief)
Acquired 2003
The Proportions of the Horse: Book with woodcuts
Acquired 1918
The Primitive City
Acquired 1947
The Poringland Ring
Acquired 1999
The Pershore Censer-Cover
Acquired 1960
The Oxborough Dirk
Acquired 1994
The Oldman Ethnographical Collection
Acquired 1949
The Nymph of the Lo River
Acquired 1930
The Noble Chalice
Acquired 1969
The Ninian Reliquary
Acquired 1946
The Near Baldock Temple Treasure
Acquired 2003
The Martyrdom of St Sebastian
Acquired 1927
The Martyrdom of St Lawrence
Acquired 2009
The Man of Sorrows & Milo of Crotona
Acquired 1918
The Lycurgus Cup
Acquired 1958
The Lowther Cross
Acquired 1967
The Legend of the Jew who stole the Host
Acquired 1905
The Judgement of Paris
Acquired 1949
The Judgement of Paris
Acquired 2008
The Jennings Dog
Acquired 2001
The Isle of Wight Ingot Hoard
Acquired 2005
The Infant Christ, The Virgin and St Joseph
Acquired 1992
The Infant Christ
Acquired 1933
The Hoxne Roman Treasure - South Cerney Fragments
Acquired 1994
The How Cup
Acquired 1992
The Great Gantry, Charing Cross Station
Acquired 1906
The Gold Acorn Cup
Acquired 1956
The Four Evangelists
Acquired 1912
The Eyre Hydria
Acquired 1997
The Eumorfopoulos Collection: Ceramics
Acquired 1935
The Entombment
Acquired 1952
The Entombment
Acquired 1946
The Edgar Allan Poe Suite
Acquired 2010
The Dunstable Swan Jewel
Acquired 1966
The Domagnanc Treasure (formerly Cesena)
Acquired 1933
The Doges Palace
Acquired 1948
The Deposition
Acquired 1973
The Death of Tom Moody
Acquired 1933
The Death of the Virgin
Acquired 1962
The Death of Meleager
Acquired 1946
The death of Jezebel
Acquired 1942
The Cyder Feast & The Return Home & The Bride
Acquired 1932
The Crucifixion with Saints
Acquired 1936
The Crucifixion
Acquired 1922
The Crawford Cup
Acquired 1971
The Cosway Salt
Acquired 1990
The Corbridge Lanx
Acquired 1993
The Cloisters, Westminster Abbey
Acquired 2002
The child Bacchus riding on a goat with attendants
Acquired 1997
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Acquired 2002
The Braganza Brooch
Acquired 2001
The Bowleaze Jewel
Acquired 1992
The blind leading the blind
Acquired 1997
The Beach at Brighton
Acquired 1948
The Battle of Zonchio
Acquired 1932
The Barber Cup
Acquired 2003
The Baptism of Christ
Acquired 1974
The Banqueting Hall, Whitehall
Acquired 2002
The Ballad Monger
Acquired 1953
The Awabi Fishers
Acquired 1910
The Ascension
Acquired 1978
The Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography
Acquired 2009
The Antique Dealer at the RA
Acquired 1953
The Annunciation
Acquired 1920
The Angel Appearing to Isaac
Acquired 1946
Tau-rapa (war canoe stern-piece)
Acquired 1921
Sword blade
Acquired 2002
Sumerian trough
Acquired 1928
Sumerian statuette
Acquired 1924
Sumerian and Babylonian Sculpture
Acquired 1936
Study of the Nude
Acquired 1946
Study of the Heads of Two Boys
Acquired 1941
Study of Ivy
Acquired 1938
Study of a Woman
Acquired 1935
Study of a standing woman for 'The Eve of St Agnes'
Acquired 1997
Study of a standing saint
Acquired 1958
Study of a Seated Youth
Acquired 1953
Study of a Seated Nude and Head of a Woman for the painting 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'
Acquired 1996
Study of a Saint
Acquired 1946
Study of a flask
Acquired 1953
Study for the Last Judgement
Acquired 1941
Study for the etching of the 'Angel with the Sudarium'
Acquired 1951
Study for the Borghese Entombment
Acquired 1963
Study for Ave Picardia Nutrix
Acquired 1921
Study for a wall painting
Acquired 1997
Study for a portrait
Acquired 1958
Study for a Madonna and Child
Acquired 1958
Study for a full-length portrait of a lady standing
Acquired 1920
Study for a frieze
Acquired 1958
Studies of three saddle packs
Acquired 1997
Studies of ruins
Acquired 1948
Studies of a Young Man and a Dog
Acquired 1922
Studies of a reclining male nude: Adam in the fresco 'The Creation of Man' on the vault of the Sistine Chapel
Acquired 1926
Studies for a Christ Carrying the Cross
Acquired 1946
Sts John the Evangelist and John the Baptist
Acquired 1997
Sts John the Baptist and John the Evangelist
Acquired 1997
Street Scene
Acquired 2001
Stone Sphinx
Acquired 1927
Still life with fruit and meat on a table
Acquired 1997
Statuette of Socrates
Acquired 1925
Statuette of Aphrodite
Acquired 2000
Statuette of a youth & Bronze club
Acquired 1908
Standing female nude
Acquired 1997
Standing Avalokiteshvara
Acquired 2001
Staffordshire pottery & silver bucket
Acquired 1922
St. Nicholas
Acquired 1915
St. John preaching in the Wilderness
Acquired 1964
St. Anne
Acquired 1915
St. Agatha/ A female saint
Acquired 1905
St Severo Porte Del Papa
Acquired 1935
St Roch kneeling
Acquired 1964
St Roch being fed by a Dog
Acquired 1964
St Paul Crucified
Acquired 1997
St Mary Magdalen
Acquired 1918
St Martin's Church, Salisbury
Acquired 1948
St Luke Painting the Virgin
Acquired 1992
St Luke painting an image of the Virgin in an interior
Acquired 1997
St John the Baptist
Acquired 1951
St John the Baptist
Acquired 1997
St Francis of Assisi
Acquired 1997
St Francesca Romana
Acquired 1986
St Catherine
Acquired 1922
St Catherine
Acquired 1997
St Benedict and the Monk Romanus
Acquired 1969
St Bartholomew with a kneeling donor
Acquired 1997
St Bartholomew in a landscape
Acquired 1914
St Anthony
Acquired 1930
St Andrew
Acquired 1997
Southern Indian Jain Statuettes
Acquired 1914
Southampton
Acquired 1948
South Oxfordshire Treasure Trove
Acquired 1996
Smoking Pipe
Acquired 1949
Sketches for two Engravings from 'Industry and Idleness'
Acquired 1914
Sketch of a young artist
Acquired 1926
Six pottery vessels from ancient Iran
Acquired 1995
Sir Robert Walpole addressing a meeting
Acquired 1920
Silver-Gilt Chalice
Acquired 1961
Silver sword-mount
Acquired 1944
Silver Matrix of a seal
Acquired 1911
Silver bowl
Acquired 1912
Ship's Figurehead
Acquired 1938
Shell cameo
Acquired 1946
Sevres porcelain goblet
Acquired 1927
Seven woodcut prints
Acquired 1945
Self-portrait
Acquired 1925
Self Portrait
Acquired 1908
Sedgeford torc terminal
Acquired 2005
Seated woman with man's head on her lap
Acquired 1997
Seated Philosopher
Acquired 1951
Seated peasant holding a piece of bread in his left hand
Acquired 1997
Seated Luohan (Disciple of Buddha)
Acquired 1913
Seated figure of St. John the Evangelist
Acquired 1928
Scylla and Charybdis
Acquired 1997
Sculpture of the Virgin and Child
Acquired 2016
Sculpture of the Gandhara Graeco-Buddhist School
Acquired 1917
Scene on a road with two horsemen
Acquired 1930
Scene in a Park
Acquired 1937
Scene illustrating the story of the Golden Fleece
Acquired 1941
Savonarola Medal
Acquired 1915
Salcombe Hoard
Acquired 2010
Saint Paul and three standing figures
Acquired 1997
Sacrificial pot
Acquired 1955
Sacred Peacock statue
Acquired 1912
Romanesque Ivory Carving
Acquired 1959
Romanesque Crucifix figure
Acquired 1965
Roman Denarius of Carausius
Acquired 1998
Roman child's sarcophagus
Acquired 1995
River Scene
Acquired 1948
Ring
Acquired 2005
Resurrection of Christ
Acquired 1997
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Acquired 1997
Replica of the Statue of Kwannon
Acquired 1932
Repeating watch
Acquired 1904
Reliquary
Acquired 1938
Relief sculpture
Acquired 1904
Relief of a Sphinx
Acquired 1937
Reclining Putto
Acquired 1951
Rare English Coins
Acquired 1913
Rakka vase
Acquired 1928
Quattro Litografie di Lucio Fontana
Acquired 2005
Quarter repeating watch
Acquired 1996
Pyramidal Strap Mount
Acquired 2000
Purse frame
Acquired 1998
Prints & proofs from the 'James Joyce in Paris' project
Acquired 2010
Printemps & L'Este & L'Automne
Acquired 1969
Print study /drawing/ album
Acquired 1951
Princes of the House of Timur
Acquired 1912
Presentation of Christ to the people
Acquired 1997
Power Figure
Acquired 1995
Portuguese crossbowman
Acquired 1949
Portrait of Yoritomo
Acquired 1920
Portrait of Stepniak
Acquired 1910
Portrait of Revd Robert Hall
Acquired 1906
Portrait of Mrs A A Humphrey
Acquired 1933
Portrait of Maximilian I
Acquired 1928
Portrait of Matthew Prior
Acquired 1909
Portrait of Manasseh ben Israel
Acquired 1967
Portrait of Leonardo Buonafede
Acquired 1946
Portrait of Lady Colvin
Acquired 1927
Portrait of Hans von Aachen
Acquired 1997
Portrait of Frederick Sitwell on his deathbed
Acquired 1927
Portrait of Daniel Seghers
Acquired 1931
Portrait of Charles II
Acquired 1928
Portrait of an unknown artist
Acquired 1927
Portrait of a young man
Acquired 1966
Portrait of a woman seated in a landscape
Acquired 2007
Portrait of a woman
Acquired 1912
Portrait of a Peasant Woman
Acquired 1930
Portrait of a man with long hair, seen from the front
Acquired 1997
Portrait of a man
Acquired 1925
Portrait of a Lady, sometimes identified as Anne Boleyn
Acquired 1975
Portrait of a Lady
Acquired 1975
Portrait medal of Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
Acquired 1923
Portrait medal of Cornelia Siciliana
Acquired 1919
Portrait medal
Acquired 1936
Portrait drawing of Dr H W Bellows of New York
Acquired 1944
Portait of a Lady Standing
Acquired 1912
Portable altar
Acquired 1963
Porcelain Dutchman
Acquired 1927
Porcelain dishes
Acquired 1935
Poet's Dream
Acquired 2001
Po Lo
Acquired 1944
Pines and Mountains
Acquired 1939
Phaeton demanding the Chariot of the Sun
Acquired 1917
Peruvian Textiles
Acquired 1934
Persian Winebowl
Acquired 1938
Persian Pottery
Acquired 1915
Persian Pottery
Acquired 1912
Persian dish
Acquired 1926
Persian bowl & cup
Acquired 1914
Persian bowl
Acquired 1928
Peasants at a Table in the Open Air
Acquired 1946
Peasant man
Acquired 1948
Part of the Ruins of Caesar's Palace at Rome
Acquired 1948
Paper Money
Acquired 1933
Palmerston gold chocolate cups
Acquired 2005
Pair of Stirrups
Acquired 1949
Pair of Indian granite balustrade terminals
Acquired 1941
Pair of Delft dishes & a Bristol Delft jar
Acquired 1943
P'an
Acquired 1923
Oriental manuscript volumes and Indian miniatures
Acquired 1949
Oriental Huntsman
Acquired 1922
Old Master drawings, prints and mezzotints
Acquired 1940
Oinochoe (jug)
Acquired 2006
Octavian as Mercury (The Ionides Gem)
Acquired 2001
Noah's Ark
Acquired 1997
Nine Caricatures
Acquired 1913
Nimrud Ivories
Acquired 2011
Nessus and Deianeira
Acquired 1933
Necklace of repousse panels
Acquired 1909
Neck of a lime flask & Figure of a woman
Acquired 1940
Near the Porta del Popolo at Rome
Acquired 1948
Native North American Carved Ladle
Acquired 2001
Mughal illuminated page from Ta'rikh-i Alfi
Acquired 1934
Montague House
Acquired 1944
Mirror from the Chettle Park hoard
Acquired 2009
Ming vase & candlesticks
Acquired 1930
Minerva
Acquired 1988
Milton Keynes Hoard
Acquired 2002
Mezzotint Portraits
Acquired 1937
Mer de Glace
Acquired 1923
Mentone & Monaco
Acquired 1963
Melancholia
Acquired 1912
Meissen Plate
Acquired 1958
Meissen jar & cover
Acquired 1941
Mehmed II, Sultan of Turkey
Acquired 1919
Medieval Lead Wool-Weight
Acquired 1930
Medieval enamel roundel
Acquired 1997
Medieval casket
Acquired 1977
Medal of the Venetian Doge Leonardo Lorendano
Acquired 1922
Medal of Sir John Cheke
Acquired 1923
Maya pottery and sculpture
Acquired 1930
Matrix of a seal
Acquired 1905
Mary Hamilton
Acquired 2005
Martyrdom of the 10,000 Christians
Acquired 1922
Martyrdom of SS Peter and Paul
Acquired 1904
Mars Venus and Cupid
Acquired 1997
Market Porter (Fort de la halle)
Acquired 1927
Marble head, ivory draughtsman and chess-piece
Acquired 1962
Manuscripts
Acquired 1948
Mancus of Coenwulf, King of Mercia
Acquired 2006
Man's Cloth & Woman's Cloth
Acquired 2002
Maiolica footed dish
Acquired 1997
Madonna and Child with two Saints and Angels
Acquired 1964
Madonna and Child
Acquired 1922
London Delft plate
Acquired 1944
Lintel of Senusret III, King of Egypt
Acquired 1995
Life of Joseph, 8 designs for stained glass
Acquired 1922
Leda and the Swan
Acquired 1989
Le Grand Opera & Theatre Italien
Acquired 1964
Late Roman Sarcophagus
Acquired 1957
Late Achaemenid bowl
Acquired 1997
Large vase with designs of auspicious flowers and peach sprays (Hakuji enju-mon kabin)
Acquired 2012
Large Feather Leaves Bowl
Acquired 2013
Lapis Lazuli Bust of Serapis
Acquired 1912
Landscape with trees
Acquired 1997
Landscape with military exercises at Mont Faron, Toulon
Acquired 1997
Landscape with ladies bathing
Acquired 1953
Landscape with Fishermen and Washerwomen by a Cascade
Acquired 1997
Landscape with a windmill at Stoke
Acquired 1936
Landscape with a walled village on a hill above a river
Acquired 1997
Landscape with a Palace
Acquired 1948
Landscape with a cottage and farm buildings
Acquired 1997
Landscape in the manner of Callot
Acquired 1953
Landscape drawing with figures
Acquired 1941
Landscape drawing
Acquired 1932
Landscape Drawing
Acquired 1957
Landscape
Acquired 1946
Landscape
Acquired 1946
Landscape
Acquired 1946
Landscape
Acquired 1939
Landscape
Acquired 1952
Landscape
Acquired 1935
Lamaistic ritual objects
Acquired 1933
Lake of Albano
Acquired 1948
Lady of Pe, Wadjyt, The Giver of Life
Acquired 1992
Lady Feng and the Bear
Acquired 1915
Lacquer picnic set
Acquired 1964
La Géante
Acquired 2003
La Blanchisseuse
Acquired 1924
L'Armoire
Acquired 1924
L'amour en platre (study)
Acquired 1935
Krauterblatter
Acquired 1984
Kitchen interior with various figures
Acquired 1997
Khmer sculpture
Acquired 1933
Kendi & jar
Acquired 2009
Kashmir Censer
Acquired 2011
Judith Killing Holofernes
Acquired 1929
Judge of Hell
Acquired 1917
Joseph Planta & Richard Payne Knight
Acquired 1933
Japanese Two-Fold Screen
Acquired 1931
Japanese stoneware vase
Acquired 1956
Japanese sculpture
Acquired 1956
Japanese screen
Acquired 1922
Japanese prints and woodcut books
Acquired 1942
Japanese bowl
Acquired 1910
Jacob's Ladder
Acquired 1949
Ivory triptych
Acquired 1926
Ivory pyxis
Acquired 1924
Ivory pillar barometer
Acquired 1911
Ivory panel
Acquired 1958
Ivory leaf of a diptych
Acquired 1943
Italian Landscape
Acquired 1918
Isleworth
Acquired 1929
Islamic panels
Acquired 1944
Iris appearing to Hypnos
Acquired 1997
Interior with four men standing round a table
Acquired 1997
Interior of a Cafe, Stamboul
Acquired 1916
Inscribed vessel of Utu-Hegal, King of Uruk
Acquired 1999
Inlaid Bronzes
Acquired 1934
In the Farnesian Garden
Acquired 1948
Imamiya Toka Ebisu
Acquired 1949
Imaginary Alpine Landscape
Acquired 1946
Illustrations to the 'Divine Comedy' by Dante
Acquired 1919
Illustration to the 'Gesta Romanorum'
Acquired 1997
Il Prete Genovese
Acquired 1912
Hockley pendant
Acquired 2012
Hercules
Acquired 1922
Headrest
Acquired 1949
Head with a Beaded Crown and Plume
Acquired 1939
Head of the Emperor Claudius
Acquired 1951
Head of St Jerome
Acquired 1936
Head of Claudius
Acquired 1965
Head of Augustus, Emperor of Rome ('The Meroë Head')
Acquired 1911
Head of an old man
Acquired 1926
Head of a peasant
Acquired 1997
Head of a man with a beard, seen from the front
Acquired 1997
Head of a girl
Acquired 1931
Head from a Statue of a Man
Acquired 1973
Head and shoulders of a boy in profile to the left
Acquired 1997
Halsway Court, Somerset
Acquired 1994
Half-length study of a male nude
Acquired 1944
Half-length figure of a man
Acquired 1997
Half-angel of the first coinage of Henry VII
Acquired 1913
Gudea, King of Lagash
Acquired 1931
Grove of Angels
Acquired 2001
Grey pottery pilaster
Acquired 1942
Greek Vase: Orestes pursued by the Furies
Acquired 1917
Grave-furniture (Ornaments of Keszthely type)
Acquired 1933
Gold-enamelled Pendant Jewel
Acquired 1956
Gold Pendant
Acquired 1938
Gold Medalion of Maxentius
Acquired 1959
Gold enamelled badge
Acquired 1909
Gold Earring
Acquired 1963
Gold Bracelet
Acquired 1957
Glass goblet
Acquired 1924
Gion in Kyoto
Acquired 2005
Gilt metal boss
Acquired 1916
Gigaku Mask
Acquired 1954
Geraint and Enid
Acquired 1924
Funerary vase & figurines
Acquired 1944
Funerary stela of Ptaherhatef
Acquired 2006
Frau und zwei Buben in Segelboot
Acquired 1999
Fragment of gold frieze
Acquired 1957
Fox-Hunting
Acquired 1933
Four studies of goats
Acquired 1997
Four standing female nudes and a child
Acquired 1997
Four Japanese painted cedar doors
Acquired 1958
Four Indian miniatures
Acquired 1941
Four gold rosettes
Acquired 1963
Four carved wooden panels
Acquired 1944
Five studies for portraits
Acquired 1928
Five sketchbooks
Acquired 1992
Five Russian Revolutionary plates
Acquired 1991
Fire at the Vinegar Workson the Wensum at Norwich
Acquired 1905
Figure of meditating Bodhisattva
Acquired 1963
Figure of Buddha
Acquired 1962
Figure of a Running Girl
Acquired 1941
Figure astride a rearing horse, seen from the front
Acquired 1997
Female Ghost carrying off a Male Severed Head
Acquired 1996
Feast Ladle
Acquired 1949
Fascination of Nature
Acquired 1998
Ewer
Acquired 1998
Entrance to the Hotel Splendide, Mentone
Acquired 1923
Entrance to a Synagogue at Regensburg
Acquired 1924
Enthroned Virgin
Acquired 1956
Ensemble from 'The Path of Roses'
Acquired 2004
Engraving with Two Sphinxes
Acquired 1909
Engraved gold disc
Acquired 1942
Engraved glass goblet
Acquired 2002
Empress pepperpot
Acquired 1994
Empress Livia as the Goddess Ceres
Acquired 2000
Emperor Jahangir giving an Audience
Acquired 1933
Emiliano Zapata and his Horse
Acquired 2009
Elvis
Acquired 2015
Elizabethan ivory seal-matrix
Acquired 1944
Elgin Amphora
Acquired 2004
Egyptian Plaster Cast
Acquired 1958
Egyptian limestone stela
Acquired 2001
Early Christian Silver Vase
Acquired 1951
Drum with Owl Face
Acquired 1949
Drinking glass
Acquired 2004
Drawings/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawings/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawings
Acquired 1914
Drawing/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
Acquired 1951
Drawing of a man and three ladies
Acquired 1997
Draughtsman depicting the death of a saint
Acquired 1907
Drachenfels on the Rhine
Acquired 2002
Dover Castle
Acquired 1948
Double-sided sheet of Studies
Acquired 1953
Douarnenez and the Ile Tristan & Stinkweed
Acquired 1927
Door-knocker with lion-head
Acquired 1909
Dives and Lazarus
Acquired 1918
Dish
Acquired 1922
Disasters of War
Acquired 1999
Dipylon pitcher & cup
Acquired 1915
Dinan: Street Scene
Acquired 1939
Diana and the Nymphs at the Hunt
Acquired 1964
Designs for book illustrations
Acquired 1933
Designs
Acquired 1932
Design for a wall decoration
Acquired 1952
Design for a pulpit
Acquired 1958
Delft ware bowl
Acquired 1911
David and Bathsheba
Acquired 1997
David and Absalom
Acquired 1961
Daniel proving Susannah's innocence
Acquired 1946
Dance celebrating a Remission of Taxes
Acquired 1961
Cylinder seals
Acquired 1945
Cycladic Figurine
Acquired 2011
Cupid and Psyche
Acquired 1957
Covered fluted glass
Acquired 1992
Cottage
Acquired 1948
Coriolanus receiving the Roman Matrons
Acquired 1917
Corfu: A Lane with Figures
Acquired 1939
Copper peg & limestone tablet
Acquired 1974
Copper currency shield
Acquired 1929
Composition & Woman under Tree & after Bellange-Samson
Acquired 1947
Colombian Antiquities
Acquired 1955
Collecton of engravings and etchings
Acquired 1929
Collection of twelve Indian coins
Acquired 1929
Collection of Three Drawings
Acquired 1952
Collection of Three Drawings
Acquired 1952
Collection of three bronze vessels
Acquired 1929
Collection of Swedish Artefacts
Acquired 1921
Collection of studies and sketches
Acquired 2003
Collection of sketches
Acquired 1933
Collection of over 600 coins
Acquired 1988
Collection of Muhammedan coins
Acquired 1911
Collection of Mexican posters
Acquired 2008
Collection of Japanese ceramics
Acquired 1980
Collection of Italian medals
Acquired 1912
Collection of gold jewellery
Acquired 1960.jpg)
Collection of Glasses
Acquired 1938
Collection of five watercolours
Acquired 1968
Collection of Five Etchings
Acquired 1939
Collection of ethnographic items
Acquired 2003
Collection of Etchings
Acquired 1952
Collection of embroidered textiles
Acquired 2002
Collection of coins, medals, tokens & badges
Acquired 2006
Collection of Chinese porcelain
Acquired 1909
Collection of carvings
Acquired 1944
Collection of Caricature Drawings
Acquired 1937
Collection of 95 paintings and drawings
Acquired 1955
Collection of 9 Egyptian antiquities
Acquired 1922
Collection of 6 Engravings
Acquired 1933
Collection of 5 Torcs
Acquired 1969
Collection of 2599 engraved British portraits
Acquired 1943
Collection of 250 pieces of Peruvian Pottery
Acquired 1909
Collection of 25 pieces of pottery & display case
Acquired 1928
Coins from the Salcombe Treasure
Acquired 1999
Coin portrait of Mohur of Akbar
Acquired 1930
Coin of Septimius Severus
Acquired 1998
Coin of Anarevitos
Acquired 2011
Coblentz
Acquired 1946
Cloaked figure walking to the left
Acquired 1997
Citole
Acquired 1963
Circular ornament with a satyr and a candelabrum
Acquired 1997
Circular brooch & Pair of clasps
Acquired 1916
Circular badge for a hat
Acquired 1911
Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection of Mezzotints
Acquired 2010
Christ, the Virgin and Symbols of the Four Evangelists
Acquired 1921
Christ shown to the people
Acquired 1997
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St. John
Acquired 1921
Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St. John
Acquired 1921
Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St John
Acquired 1918
Christ on the Cross between Mary and St John
Acquired 1928
Christ carrying the Cross
Acquired 1997
Christ before Pilate
Acquired 1922
Choirine Relief
Acquired 2007
Chinese water pot & Damascus tile
Acquired 1925
Chinese Porcelain Figure
Acquired 1935
Chinese colour prints
Acquired 1932
Chinese Buddhist Figure
Acquired 1919
Chilo Lacedaemonius
Acquired 1977
Chelsea Vase
Acquired 1930
Charles V
Acquired 1909
Chalcolithic Figurine
Acquired 2005
Celtic Desborough mirror
Acquired 1924
Carved Wooden Head of Buddha
Acquired 1950
Carved wooden figure of Amida
Acquired 1945
Carved whalebone panel
Acquired 1907
Carved ivory panel
Acquired 1914
Caricature of a man seen from behind
Acquired 1997
Cameo Portrait of Claudius
Acquired 1939
Cameo bust of Octavian
Acquired 1996
Calumny of Apelles
Acquired 1959
Calamelli Foot
Acquired 2011
Bust of Charles Townley
Acquired 1995
Bust of a Zeus Serapis
Acquired 1970
Bust of a Woman in a Hat, 1644 & Bust of a Man in a Hat
Acquired 1921
Buntingdon Figure
Acquired 2000
Buildings with a water-mill, and hills in the background
Acquired 1997
Builders constructing a house
Acquired 1997
Buddhist head
Acquired 1943
Bronze statuette
Acquired 1955
Bronze Roman vase
Acquired 1947
Bronze Reclining Banqueter
Acquired 1954
Bronze Helmet
Acquired 1968
Bronze head
Acquired 1944
Bronze Buddha
Acquired 1942
Bridle-bit
Acquired 1910
Bridge over a Stream
Acquired 1948
Bramerton Common
Acquired 1926
Boy and Girl by a Stile
Acquired 1906
Bonneville, Savoy
Acquired 1923
Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter
Acquired 1937
Bingen on the Rhine
Acquired 1946
Bell-Krater
Acquired 1961
Beheading of St Barbara
Acquired 1966
Beach Scene with fishing boats
Acquired 1948
Battle Scene
Acquired 1954
Basin shaped disc
Acquired 1913
Basalt Head
Acquired 1958
Banner painting of Guatama Buddha
Acquired 1944
Ballyvaughan, Evening
Acquired 1926
Bagpiper
Acquired 1997
Aztec mask
Acquired 1926
Axe-Head
Acquired 1912
Avignon: Palace of Popes and Cathedral
Acquired 1939
Aureus of the Roman emperor Carausius
Acquired 2009
Aurelius Urscinus spoons
Acquired 1994
Astronomical and musical pedestal clock
Acquired 1992
Astrolabe quadrant
Acquired 2008
Assumption of the Virgin
Acquired 1997
Assembly of the Gods
Acquired 1992
Ascension of Elijah
Acquired 1997
Artist and his Wife walking in a Landscape
Acquired 2001
Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography
Acquired 2011
Armoured knight fighting wild men in a wood
Acquired 1997
Arion sitting on a dolphin playing a 'lira da braccio'
Acquired 1997
Architectural Studies
Acquired 1946
Arab bowl
Acquired 1924
Appledore coin hoard
Acquired 1998
Anglo-Saxon sword pommel
Acquired 1994
Anglo-Saxon objects
Acquired 1942
Anglo-Saxon Jewellery, Glass, Pottery
Acquired 1905
Anglo-Saxon fitting from a sword scabbard
Acquired 1999
Anglo-Saxon Amuletic Figure
Acquired 2001
Angels dancing in a circle
Acquired 1997
Angel seated on a cloud playing a lute
Acquired 1997
Andrea Doria offering a sacrifice
Acquired 2005
An unfinished marble youth
Acquired 1920
An Old Testament Prophet
Acquired 1940
An old man asleep on the ground
Acquired 1997
An old lighthouse with sailing boats in the background
Acquired 1997
An Italian Bridge
Acquired 1935
An Elizabethan Livery Pot
Acquired 1981
An Apple Tree
Acquired 2002
An Allegory
Acquired 1971
An Album of Drawings
Acquired 1951
An album of 70 sketches
Acquired 1927
Amuletic jewelled scarab
Acquired 1999
Alton hoard of Iron Age coins & Roman jewellery
Acquired 1996
Allegory on Life and Death
Acquired 1997
Allegory of the month of March
Acquired 1997
Allegory of the month of April
Acquired 1997
Allegory of the Arts
Acquired 1997
Allegory of Love and Death
Acquired 1933
Allegory of Ill Fortune
Acquired 1921
Allegory of Fortune
Acquired 1997
Allegorical figure Pride
Acquired 1944
Album of Sketches
Acquired 1913
Album of Indian Portraits
Acquired 1935
Album of Drawings
Acquired 1938
Album of 50 drawings of flowers, fruit and insects
Acquired 1962
Albarello or Pharmacy Jar
Acquired 1905
Albarello or Pharmacy Jar
Acquired 1905
Albanian Palikars
Acquired 1922
Adoration of the Magi
Acquired 1941
Adam and Eve in Paradise
Acquired 1922
Achaemenid ibex
Acquired 1988
Achaemenid bowl
Acquired 1994
Achaemenid bowl
Acquired 2006
Abigail coming with presents to King David
Acquired 1927
A Youth in Fancy Dress
Acquired 1975
A Young Woman Seated in an Arm Chair
Acquired 1948
A Wooded Landscape
Acquired 1912
A Woman Leaning Against a Pillar
Acquired 1946
A Woman and Child
Acquired 1905
A Water Mill
Acquired 1948
A Virgin Martyr
Acquired 1946
A View of the Inside of a Sepulchral Church
Acquired 2000
A study in perspective
Acquired 1997
A standing angel
Acquired 1997
A sheet of studies
Acquired 1951
A sheet from a sketch book
Acquired 1952
A seated woman seen from the back
Acquired 1997
A seated figure holding a book
Acquired 1997
A Roman Relief
Acquired 1954
A putto holding a sickle and a bunch of grapes
Acquired 1997
A pair of Ice Pails
Acquired 1983
A moth
Acquired 1997
A man seen from below
Acquired 1997
A Man Pruning the Roots of an Apple Tree
Acquired 1929
A man leaning on a table holding a fan in his left hand
Acquired 1997
A Lady Playing a Psaltery
Acquired 1969
A Katabathra of Lake Copais
Acquired 1997
A Jug
Acquired 2015
A jewelled necklace
Acquired 1941
A Hunter on Horseback
Acquired 1995
A hare
Acquired 1997
A hanging piece of drapery
Acquired 1997
A Group of French Cavalry Officers
Acquired 1928
A Group beside a Well
Acquired 1908
A grotesque panel
Acquired 1997
A Garden Fete
Acquired 1921
A Fantastic Castle
Acquired 1935
A dying bishop, with monks and angels
Acquired 1997
A drunken peasant emptying a glass on the ground
Acquired 1997
A Demon and One of the Damned
Acquired 1946
A Cupid
Acquired 1946
A collection of Oriental antiquities
Acquired 1948
A collection of animal-style bronzes
Acquired 1950
A Coast Scene with Warships Firing a Salute
Acquired 1983
A cascade at the Villa d'Este
Acquired 1920
A butterfly
Acquired 1997
A Bird on a Branch Catching a Fly
Acquired 1946
A Bend in the Severn
Acquired 1915
9 medallion portraits
Acquired 1906
7 pieces of Persian pottery
Acquired 1923
7 etchings
Acquired 1904
6 woodcuts & an engraving
Acquired 1922
6 pieces of Tang dynasty pottery
Acquired 1910
6 miniature paintings of the Moghul School
Acquired 1942
6 designs for Dishes, Silver Cup & Architectural Facade
Acquired 1909
5 tiles
Acquired 1907
5 pen and ink drawings
Acquired 1906
49 Pieces of Porcelain
Acquired 2001
45 items from the Sedgwick bequest (BC-AD)
Acquired 1968
44 etchings
Acquired 1924
4 subjects from Turner's Liber Studiorum
Acquired 1920
4 Lamaistic objects from Lhasa
Acquired 1910
4 designs for glass roundels
Acquired 1922
3 scenes from the Passion
Acquired 1922
3 pieces of Persian pottery
Acquired 1925
3 drawings of The Story of Lot
Acquired 1922
3 coins & 2 tokens
Acquired Not in Review
2-handled posset bowl
Acquired 1909
2 mediaeval alabaster carvings
Acquired 1910
2 Limestone reliefs
Acquired 1959
2 drawings of The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Acquired 1922
2 chalk studies
Acquired 1922
130 original etchings and 20 reproductions
Acquired 1907
13 Renaissance medals & a silver testoon
Acquired 1921
124 wax modelli for Italian medals
Acquired 1997
11 engraved portraits
Acquired 1920
1) Tolcarne, Cornwall; 2) Richmond, Yorkshire; 3) Near Ullswater, Cumberland; 4) Part of Warwick Castle
Acquired 1946
1) The Estuary; 2) Wandsworth Common
Acquired 2005
1) Stemmed Cup; 2) Jar; 3) Porcelain dish
Acquired 2014
1) I am an educator; 2) I am a Saudi Citizen (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
Acquired 2009
1) An angel-like form in the sky; 2) Landscape; 3) Red hill; 4) Ned Kelly in a landscape
Acquired 2009
'Study of Armour' and 'Trawlers Under Repair, Yarmouth'
Acquired 1999The Vale of York Viking Hoard, funded in 2009, includes objects from a variety of regions and nations that speak persuasively of the contemporary growth and diversity of trade networks.
Of the many studies Michelangelo produced for the Sistine Chapel, his study for the figure of Adam, acquired in 1926, is among the finest.
Exhibitions at British Museum
Feminine Power: The divine to the demonic
- British Museum, London
- Until 24 September 2022
50% off exhibitions
