Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
5th-8th century AD · Handscroll
British Museum, London, Room 91a
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Artworks
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316 artworks
Desk Chair
c. 1902 · Walnut
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves ("The Three Crosses")
1653 · Drypoint
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (The Kelmscott Chaucer)
1896 · Letterpress in Chaucer and Troy type
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual...
Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence
1609 · Oil on canvas
Missing
Portrait of a Young Man
c. 1513-14 · Oil on panel
Missing since January 1945.
The Resolute Desk
1880 · Oak
The Oval Office, The White House, Washington
The Sutton Hoo Lyre
Early 7th century AD · Maple wood body with willow and alder...
The British Museum, London
The Emperor's Carpet
Second half of the 16th century · Silk
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Mocking of Christ
c. 1280 · Egg tempera and gold leaf on poplar panel
Musee du Louvre
The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent's Rock, Bristol
c. 1792 · Oil on canvas
Private collection, United Kingdom
The Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet
Seventeenth century · Knotted pile
Museum of Islamic Art