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John Frederick Lewis RA Free Curator Talk

24 Jul 2008

In The Tennant Room, a John Madejski Fine Room


Free

2pm

Briony Llewellyn introduces the drawings on display in the exhibition The Young Lion: Early Drawings by John Frederick Lewis RA (1804-1876).

John Frederick Lewis RA, Two Drawings of the Head of a Lion (detail), c.1820.
John Frederick Lewis RA, Two Drawings of the Head of a Lion (detail), c.1820. Black and white chalk on brown paper © Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photograph: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.

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Joan Miró, The Birth of Day 1 (Naissance du jour 1), 1964. Oil on canvas, 146 x 113.5 cm. Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul. Photo © Galerie Maeght.
© Succession Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008.

 

The Antioch Chalice, Byzantine, from Syria, possibly Kaper Koraon or Antioch, first half of the sixth century. Silver cup set in footed silver-gilt shell, Height 19. 7 cm. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1950 (50.4). Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art