Collection Highlights: Western Art
Western Art
Ewer and basin
Silver gilt, London 1592; maker’s mark IN. Diameter of basin 41.2 cm; height of ewer 29.8 cm.
Flask of imitation porcelain
Painted in underglaze blue with sprays of foliage and flowers. Italian, Florence, probably between 1575 and 1587, maximum height 18.5 cm. Marked beneath the base with the Dome of Florence Cathedral and F.
John Tradescant the Younger (1608–62)
Attributed to Thomas de Critz, painted on canvas, 107 x 86 cm.
Maiolica plate painted with a head composed of penises
Francesco Urbini, 23.3 cm diameter, c.1530–37.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564): Study for the figure of Day
Black chalk over some stylus indications on off-white paper, 25.8 x 33.2 cm.
Paolo Uccello (c.1396/7–1475): Hunt in the forest
Panel, complete painting 73.5 x 177 cm, detail shown here approx 36 x 57 cm, c.1465–70.
Raphael (Raffaello Santi, 1483–1520): Combat of nude Men
Red chalk over preliminary stylus work on off-white paper, 37.9 x 28.1 cm.
Samuel Palmer (1805–81): The valley thick with corn
Pen and dark brown ink, brush with sepia mixed with gum on paper, 18.2 x 27.5 cm. Signed and dated 1825, from early in the young artist’s ‘visionary Shoreham period’.
Saskia asleep in Bed
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), pen and brown ink on paper, 14.4 x 20.8 cm, probably c.1635.
Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723)
Edward Pierce (c.1630–1695), marble bust, 66.1 cm high, 1673. Given by the sitter’s son, in 1737 and attributed by him to Pierce.
The Prioress’s Tale cabinet
Philip Webb (1831–1915) and Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), wood, 222 cm high. Designed by Webb in 1857, and decorated by Burne-Jones with scenes from the tale told by the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales.
Violin
Antonio Stradivari (1644?–1737), 59.3 cm long, Cremona, with the original label: Antonius Stradivarius Cremoensis/Faciebat Anno 1716.