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Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

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Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

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Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

Scope and Contents From the File:

Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

Scope and Contents From the File:

Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

Scope and Contents From the File:

Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

Scope and Contents From the File:

Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

Scope and Contents From the File:

Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

Scope and Contents From the File:

Reproductions of prints by the English artist. The slide containing Plate 3 of The Harlot's Progress is missing. The collection also includes an engraving of Henry Fuseli's painting Midsummer Night's Dream: Act IV, Scene 1

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35 mm. transparency.

Scope and Contents 203 x 256 mm. This picture shows the Ministers at the Treasury where the meeting took place. Left to right are: The Hon. J.R. Jayawardene (Ceylon), The Hon. Chaudri Mohammed Ali C.I.E., .O.B.E., (Pakistan), The Rt. Hon J. Maynard Sinclair, D.L., M.P., (Northern Ireland), His Excellency Mr. V.K. Krishna Menon, (India), the Rt. Hon. S.G. Holland (New Zealand), the Rt. Hon. R.A. Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Fadden, K.C.M.G., (Australia), the Hon. D.C. Abbott...

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152 x 206 mm. General view of the Meeting of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee, with Mr. Shinwell, the Minister of Defence Speaking.

Scope and Contents 185 x 241 mm. Left to right: His Excellency the Rt. Hon. W.J. Jordan (New Zealand), His Excellency Dr. A.L. Geyer (South Africa), His Excellency the Hon. E.J. Harrison, M.P. (Australia), the Rt. Hon. Lord Ogmore, (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State), His Excellency Mr. L.D. Wilgress (Canada), His Excellency the Hon. E.A.P. Wijeyeratne (Ceylon), His Excellency Mr. Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola (Pakistan), the Rt. Hon. P.C. Gordon-Walker, M.P. (Secretary of State). The High Commissioner for...

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176 x 238 mm. A merry moment at London’s Marlborough House today for the two day Commonwealth Ministerial meeting on the Common Fund, delegation leaders, (left to right), Australia’s Mr Victor Garland, Minister for Special Trade Representations; Commonwealth Secretary General Mr Shridath S. Ramphal of Guyana, and Britain’s Mr Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade.

Scope and Contents In this volume Bowen describes his parents, childhood, early and secondary education at the Sloane School, Chelsea, during 1922-33, and early artistic influences which inspired him. He discusses employment with a firm of chartered accountants after leaving school, evening classes at Chelsea School of Art, and tuition by Austin Spare between 1933 and 1939. The memoir narrates Bowen’s military training and service during the Second World War, including the Battle of Arras and evacuation at...

Scope and Contents In this volume Bowen recounts his work as Exhibitions Officer at the Imperial Institute from 1953 to 1962. It discusses the history and management of the institute, working conditions, and the planning and organisation of exhibitions. Bowen also discusses the production of maps to accompany Kenneth Bradley, ed. ‘The Living Commonwealth’ (London, 1961). There are also further notes on Austin Spare who died in 1956. Bowen describes the renaming of the institute as the Commonwealth Institute in...

Scope and Contents In this volume Bowen describes an educational visit to West Africa in 1968 organised by the Institute, a lecture tour in Canada undertaken in 1969 after an invitation to address the Canadian Society for Education through Art, and visits to Denmark to lecture in 1972 and 1978. A major section discusses Bowen’s work as Curator. He reflects upon the selection and organisation of two hundred exhibitions with varying media in the Art Gallery between 1962 and 1979, featuring the work of Scottish,...

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202 x 149 mm. Showing Tuanku Abdul Rahman announcing the Malayan Independence Agreement to fellow delegates in the conference room at Marlborough House. To Abdul Rahmans right are (Lord) Duncan-Sandys and Harold Macmillan.

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A reproduction from the Shakespeare Gallery series, published by John and Josiah Boydell, London, 1803, engraved by Thomas Ryder after Henry Fuseli's painting.

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A reproduction from the Shakespeare Gallery series, published by John and Josiah Boydell, London, 1803, engraved by Thomas Ryder after Henry Fuseli's painting.

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152 x 203 mm.

Scope and Contents 156 x 201 mm. Mr Harold Watkinson, Britain’s Minister of Defence (standing), making the opening speech at the first session of the 1961 Conference of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Defence Science, held at Lancaster House. To the left of Mr. Watkinson is Lord Mountbatten, Chief of Britain’s Defence Staff. To the right of Mr. Watkinson are Sir Solly Zuckerman, leader of the United Kingdom Delegation and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence; and Admiral Sir Laurence...

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152 x 187 mm. (2 copies).

Scope and Contents The mural was the work of Mick Pilcher (born 1929) whose work included murals in the University of Ibadan, the Parliament Buildings in Lusaka, and the Anglo-American Corporation Building in Lusaka. The RCS mural showed the flags of the Commonwealth, each within the geographical outline of their country: all were of equal size to indicate equality of status. Space was left for additions, but these were never made, and as the mural became soiled and unsightly it was eventually removed. 155 x...

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252 x 202 mm.