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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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Thomas Warrander (1662-c.1715)
Letter Rack, 1692
Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 74.3 cm
National Galleries, Scotland (NG2404)
Creative Commons CC by NC
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Eric Ravilious (1903-42)
Searchlight at Dusk, 1941
Watercolour, size unknown
Public Domain
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Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827), Auguste Charles Pugin (1768/9-1832) and 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)
Public Domain
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Unknown
Frame, 1732-50
Painted fruitwood, pine carcass, gilt slips, 38 x 31 cm
"I have recently looked through the titles of the articles printed over the last fifty or so years and stand amazed at the range of scholarship displayed."
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