Collection Area: Visual Arts / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: BLWA 110
Title:: Portrait of Commander L.M.M. Saunders Watson, CBW FSA DLit (Hon), DL. Artist(s): Ward, John (1917-2007)
Scope & Content:: Portrait of Commander L.M.M. Saunders Watson, CBW FSA DLit (Hon), DL Chairman, British Library Board 1990-1993 Chairman, Friends of the British Library 1994-2000 Presented to the British Library in 2006.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1981
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: BLWA 111
Title:: A Contemporary Mappa Mundi. Artist(s): McLean, Andrea (b. 1968)
Scope & Content:: 'This painting was created in Hereford Cathedral in close proximity to the medieval 'Mappa Mundi' when Andrea was artist-in-residence. She explains that she was 'weaving together my experience of time (lent and spring) and place (the cathedral) through colour and pattern. My idea [was] to make...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 2005
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: BLWA 113
Title:: A Quiet North. Artist(s): Smith, Ian McKenzie (b.1936)
Scope & Content:: Presented to the British Library in memory of J Michael Smethurst CBE, Director General 1986-1995, Deputy Chief Executive 1995-1996, by friends and colleagues.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 2008
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: BLWA 115
Title:: Si on laissait nos traces. Two colour prints. . Artist(s): Nadeau, Luc (1948- )
Scope & Content:: Two colour prints by Luc Naideau (1948- ). Presented to the British Library from the Bibliotheque et Archives nationales Quebec in 2008, along with BLWA 114. One print (BLWA 115a) has been framed (edition 73/125). The other print (BLWA 115b) is unframed (121/125). 102 x 221 mm
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 2005-2007
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: BLWA 141
Title:: Hilary Mantel (b. 1952). Artist(s): Lord, Nick (b.1988)
Scope & Content:: Hilary Mantel (b. 1952) is the author of the Booker Award-winning trilogy about Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485-1540): Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012) and The Mirror & the Light (2020). She is the first and only living writer to have a portrait displayed at British Library. Both artist...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 2013
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: DANIELL, THOMAS (1749-1840), and DANIELL, WILLIAM (1769-1837)
Title:: DANIELL, THOMAS (1749-1840), and DANIELL, WILLIAM (1769-1837) Landscape painters and engravers. In India 1786 to 1793. Note: The historic collection ...
Scope & Content:: DANIELL, THOMAS (1749-1840), and DANIELL, WILLIAM (1769-1837) Landscape painters and engravers. In India 1786 to 1793. Note: The historic collection of drawings by these artists in the India Office Library would all appear to have been made during the Daniells' visit to India or during their...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1785-1899
Extent:: 361 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Foster 876/2
Title:: Label with inscription taken from the back of the ‘Bombay Grab’, a Cruiser of the Bombay Marine.
Scope & Content:: Label with inscription taken from the back of the ‘Bombay Grab’, a Cruiser of the Bombay Marine.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1780
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: HS85/10
Title:: A collection of Canadian photographs.
Scope & Content:: 156 photographs received by the British Museum Library 1895-1923 as a result of the Canadian Copyright Act
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1895-1923
Extent:: 2805 photographs

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