Stories
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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle
A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
Once upon a time, we all had a genius.
Catalogue
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The Jami Masjid, Delhi: front view. Coloured aquatint by F. Hegi after Noel after Thomas Daniell, after 1797.
Reference: 30496i- Books
Views of Cheltenham 1786-1860, topographical prints of a regency town : the catalogue of an exhibition held at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Clarence Street, Cheltenham, 14 July - 25 August 1984, being also a guide to the Art Gallery and Museums' collection of Cheltenham prints / exhibition organised and catalogue written by Steven Blake.
Date: [1984], ©1984- Books
The art of writing and drawing : a selection of one hundred books from the Ekström Collection in the National Library for Psychology and Education, Stockholm a descriptive and annotated catalogue of 16th through 18th rare and important books on calligraphy - perspective - architecture - drawing - anatomy - colours and related arts / compiled by Ove Hagelin.
Hagelin, Ove.Date: 1987- Books
200 Jahre seit der Gründung des Allgemeinen Krankenhauses in Prag / Ludmila Hlaváčková.
Hlaváčková, Ludmila.Date: 1989- Pictures
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A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Coloured line engraving by J.J. Flipart, 1767, after J.-B. Greuze.
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 1725-1805.Date: 1767Reference: 18202i