The Walpole Society promotes the study of Britain's art history. Our members are art lovers whose subscriptions fund our work.
The Walpole Society is delighted to announce that from 2024 it will run the Berger Prize, the leading art history book prize. The Berger Prize celebrates brilliant writing and scholarship about the arts and architecture of the United Kingdom.
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The Walpole Society publishes an annual volume of studies written by our members and scholars around the world. The Society has an unmatched record in the history of British art, and has published research on paintings, drawings, prints, miniatures, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts as well as patronage, collecting and travel. Volumes range from the middle ages to the 20th century.
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Francis Towne (1739-1816)
Rocks and Trees at Tivoli, 1781 [detail]
Pen and grey ink, watercolour. 39.8 x 51.3 cm
Tate Gallery, London (T08552)
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Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), Auguste Charles Pugin (1768/9-1832) & John Bluck (1791-1832)
Drawing from Life at the Royal Academy, 1808 [detail]
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint, 27.6 x 33.9 cm (the sheet)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Elisha Whittlesey Collection, 1959 (Acc 59.533.2084)
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Eric Ravilious (1903-42)
Searchlight at Dusk, 1941
Watercolour, size unknown
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Unknown
Frame, 1732-50
Painted fruitwood, pine carcass, gilt slips, 38 x 31 cm