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Paul Sandby, 'The North Terrace, Windsor Castle, Looking West' (detail), c.1765. Bodycolour over graphite 379 x 545 mm. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon Collection
Left: Vincent van Gogh, 'Still Life with a Plate of Onions', Early January 1889. Oil on canvas, 49.6 x 64.4 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
Right: Vincent van Gogh, 'The Sower', November 1888. Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Workshops, courses, symposia and tours
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Paul Sandby and the Geographies of Eighteenth-Century Art
18—19 March 2010
Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedford Square; £40/£20. Conference speakers consider the significance of the geographies of eighteenth-century artistic practice to an understanding of Sandby’s career.
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Evening Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
26 March 2010
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RA; 6–8 pm; £20. In this behind-the-scenes tour you can discover hidden corners of Burlington House. Extended evening tours include a conversation with curators over a glass of wine.
Looking Back at the Life Room
27 March 2010
Strang Print Room, UCL and RA Life Room; 10.30am–5.30pm; £60/£40. This talk and workshop looks at the intellectual traditions that formed the life room as a teaching model.
Morning Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
13 April 2010
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RA; 10.30–11.30am. In this tour you can enjoy close up the Royal Academy’s many masterpieces of British art, discover hidden corners of Burlington House and find the human side of the Academy in its...
London and the imagination of the city
17 April 2010
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1–4.30pm. On this tour led by Owen Hopkins we examine how our experiences of the city are mediated and sustained by its literary and visual histories.
London and the imagination of the city
24 April 2010
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1–4.30pm. On this tour led by Owen Hopkins we examine how our experiences of the city are mediated and sustained by its literary and visual histories.
Evening Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
7 May 2010
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RA; 6–8 pm. In this behind-the-scenes tour you can discover hidden corners of Burlington House. Extended evening tours include a conversation with curators over a glass of wine.
Morning Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
11 May 2010
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RA; 10.30–11.30am. In this behind-the-scenes tour you can discover hidden corners of Burlington House.
Ballardian Architecture: Inner and Outer Space
Weekend Forum
15 May 2010
RA; 2–5.30pm; £25/£16. Acclaimed writer J.G. Ballard derived inspiration from aspects of the built environment that architectural convention and critics tend to overlook.
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Evening Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
4 June 2010
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RA; 6–8pm. In this behind-the-scenes tour you can discover hidden corners of Burlington House. Extended evening tours include a conversation with curators over a glass of wine.
Morning Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
8 June 2010
RA; 10.30–11.30am; £12. In this behind-the-scenes tour you can discover hidden corners of Burlington House.
Evening Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
2 July 2010
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RA; 6–8pm. In this behind-the-scenes tour you can discover hidden corners of Burlington House. Extended evening tours include a conversation with curators over a glass of wine.
Morning Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Royal Academy Collections, Library and Archive
13 July 2010
Sold Out
RA; 10.30–11.30am. In this behind-the-scenes tour you can discover hidden corners of Burlington House.