Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • Article

Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

  • Article

Performance art, frozen in time

For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.

  • Article

How homesickness inspires art

Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.

  • Article

The art of scientific glassblowing

Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.

All stories (48)

Images

  • A painted AIDS red ribbon advertising an art exhibition "Solidarité - SIDA" in Luxembourg. Colour lithograph, 1998.
  • Torso of a reclining écorché figure. Chalk drawing by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Torso of a reclining écorché figure. Chalk drawing by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Torso of a reclining écorché figure. Chalk drawing by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Torso of a reclining écorché figure. Chalk drawing by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Cicada pupil. (Male).
  • Cicada pupil. (Female).
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
All images (351)

Catalogue

All works (2.8K)