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Video: Victor Hugo's sketchbook Published on 13 May 2025 Take a look through the pages of one of Victor Hugo's sketchbooks and get an insight into the creative universe of one of France’s most famous ...

Ecclesiastical art in Germany during the Middle Ages / by Dr. Wilhelm Lübke ; translated from the fifth German edition with appendix by L. A. Wheatley. Illustrated with 184 engravings. - Edinburgh; ...

Thirty-five sketches and designs in crayon by Richard Wilson R.A.: intended as a teacher's assistant, and for the improvement of youthful artists. - London: 1863 ...

Thirty-five sketches and designs in crayon by Richard Wilson R.A.: intended as a teacher's assistant, and for the improvement of youthful artists. - London: 1863 ...

Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress; and especially by the adaption, colour and arrangement of dress, as variously influencing the forms, complexion, & ...

Author (neither forenames or maiden name known); wife of physiognomist Alexander Walker. Female beauty, as preserved and improved by regimen, cleanliness and dress; and especially by the adaption, ...

The Royal Academy of Arts Library is committed to being transparent about the small number of older volumes in our collections that contain writings or images or have titles which are problematic for ...

Graphic delineation. A practical treatise on the art of etching, or manner of copying pictures and drawings by a method at once scientific, tasteful, and amusing: to which are added instructions, ...

In response to a letter to the Home Secretary on the subject of damage to paintings in the exhibition caused by suffragettes: the police will do all they can to assist the Council, with whom primary ...

vii, 110 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Paper covered pale brown boards, brown cloth spine. White spine label lettered in brown: `Letters to Helen. Keith Henderson.' ...