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Collection groupCount
University Art Collection3173
Brotherton Collection328
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections153
Rudolf Laban Collections69
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection66
Liddle Collection56
Art and Antique Market51
Medical Collections34
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society32
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History23

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landscape160
miniatures63
portraits57
painting51
works of art47
sicily34
men29
france16
italy16
uk16

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London, United Kingdom3
England2
Bucharest1
Granada1
Kirkstall1
Leeds1
New Forest1
Nice, France1
Romania1
Spain1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hartley, Marie694
Yorkshire Pottery139
Kitson, Robert Hawthorn109
Kramer, Jacob90
Unidentified75
Laban, Rudolf Von (1879-1958)65
Rudolf Laban65
Rudolf Jean-Baptiste Attila Von Laban65
Rudolf Johann Baptiste Attila65
Taylor, Eric Wilfred62

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Archive Art Collection

Japanese prints

1735-1873

Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Two sets depicting Kabuki plays: 'Chushingura' by Utagawa Hiroshige and 'The Sugawara Tragedy' by Utagawa Sadahide. Also a singular print: 'View of a Dramatic Perfor...

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DRAWINGS OF YORKSHIRE MEDIEVAL MILITARY EFFIGIES BY W M I'ANSON FSA

1913-1921

Comprising (a) Sir Robert Colville I at Ingleby Arncliffe. (b) Goldsborough a knight. (c) Sir Hugh Fitzhenry, d. 1304 at Romaldkirk. (d) Howden a knight. (e) Sir Peter de Saltmarsh, d. 1338 at Howden....

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Le mystère de Jean l'Oiseleur : monologues

Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963)

1924

A series of thirty self-portraits created by Jean Cocteau during a melancholic period in a hotel in Ville-sur-Mer, many created under the influence of opium, including handwritten text in the margins,...

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Chūshingura, Hiroshige

Hiroshige, Utagawa I (1797-1858)

1842-1847

A series of twelve smaller-size prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (also known as Ando Hiroshige or Ichiryūsai) illustrating the eleven-act Chūshingura play, Accompanying label from exhibition states that ...

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Sugawara, Sadahide

1820-1867

A series of 10 full-size prints illustrating the play 'Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami', based on the life of Sugawara Michizane. Also known as 'The Secret of Sugawara's Calligraphy'.

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View of a Dramatic Performance at the Three Theatres
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View of a Dramatic Performance at the Three Theatres

1770-1790

Japanese woodblock print. Japanese title is 'San shibai kabuki kyogen no zu'. From the series 'New Perpsective Pictures' ('Shinpan uki-e'). Depicts the interior of a theatre with a full view of the...

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Artwork

c.1780 - c.1961

Drawings and paintings of Gypsy,Traveller, Roma related subjects.

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Prints and drawings

c.1700-c.2017

Prints and drawings collected by John Bedford including 45 eighteenth century coloured stipple engravings, pencil and pen and ink drawings.

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Children's Ward, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds

1978

Comprises a drawing of the Children's Ward, Cookridge Hospital, presented to Lady Tunbridge, M.Sc., M.A., on the occasion of the opening of the extension to the ward on 9 March 1978.

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Great Hall, University of Leeds

1930s

Comprises an image of the Great Hall in ink, probably a woodcut.

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Original art works

1952 - 1968

This file contains original lithographs by: Alfred Manessier (signed, no. 62 of 200, cover of an exhibition catalogue, Galerie de France, 1952). Massimo Campigli ("Deux Femmes assises”, signed, n...

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Artwork

1929-c.1960

Pencil drawings, preliminary sketches and watercolours by Kathleen Raven: many are captioned and dated (including school exercise books, 1926-28).

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