Preparatory Gallery

Perseus and the Origin of Coral, c.1671 (black chalk, sepia and black ink, sepia and gray wash with white)

3493262 Perseus and the Origin of Coral, c.1671 (black chalk, sepia and black ink, sepia and gray wash with white) by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee) (1600-82); 25.4x32.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Ovid's Metamorphoses recounts that Perseus flew to an island on his winged steed Pegasus and put down Medusa's severed head to wash his hands. Her blood transformed seaweed into coral.)

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Victoria Bridge, Raising Scaffolding Preparatory to Completing the Stone Piers, and Commencing the Railroad Tube (engraving)

3638036 Victoria Bridge, Raising Scaffolding Preparatory to Completing the Stone Piers, and Commencing the Railroad Tube (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Victoria Bridge, Raising Scaffolding Preparatory to Completing the Stone Piers, and Commencing the Railroad Tube. Illustration for The Illustrated News of the World, 21 July 1860.); © Look and Learn; English, out of copyright

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Drawing of the rose window at Chartres: Simon de Montfort (colour litho)

LSE3089852 Drawing of the rose window at Chartres: Simon de Montfort (colour litho) by French School; Private Collection; (add.info.: Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c.a€‰1208 - 4 August 1265), also called Simon de Munford and sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from other Simons de Montfort, was a French-English nobleman who inherited the title and estates of the earldom of Leicester in England.); Photo A© Leonard de Selva; French, out of copyright

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