British Museum — highlights
The most celebrated public-domain works at the British Museum — 131 paintings in this catalogue, spanning 1375 to 1909, most celebrated first. Featuring Albrecht Dürer, Charles Vigor and Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen.
The Nativity
Christ before Annas
Allegory of Abundance
The Crucifixion
The Vision of the Seven Candlesticks
Christ before Caiaphas
Knight, Death and Devil
東洲斎写楽画 四代岩井半四郎の重の井 『恋女房染分手綱』|Iwai Hanshirō IV as Shigenoi in the Play "Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna"
Christ before Pilate
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Christ before Herod
Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples
Christ Taking Leave from His Mother
The Nativity
The Mocking of Christ
Little Fortune
Doubting Thomas
Peasant Couple Dancing
The Crucifixion
The Resurrection
Saint Christopher
The Fall of Man
The Sudarium Held by One Angel
The Last Supper
Christ in Limbo
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Christ Expelling the Moneylenders from the Temple
Christ Carrying the Cross
The Flagellation
Peasant and His Wife
The Annunciation
Saint George Standing
The Deposition
The Man of Sorrows Seated
The Sudarium Held by Two Angels
The Virgin and Child on a Crescent with a Sceptre and a Starry Crown
The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom
The Mass of Saint Gregory
Bath House
Saint Thomas
The Rhinoceros
東洲斎写楽画 初世中島和田右衛門のぼうだら長左衛門と初世中村此蔵の船宿かな川やの権 『敵討乗合話』|Nakajima Wadaemon and Nakamura Konozō as Bōdara no Chōzaemon and Kanagawaya no Gon in the Play "Katakiuchi noriyaibanashi"
Pentecost
The Last Judgment
Hercules Conquering Cacus ("Ercules")
Large Horse
Adam and Eve in Paradise
The Lamentation
The Descent from the Cross
The First Knot (with a heart-shaped shield)
Cleombrotus Ordered into Banishment by Leonidas II, King of Sparta
A tazza-shaped vase with flowers tumbling over the bowl
Unknown Man Clasping a Hand from a Cloud
Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
Mogao Christian painting
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571–1631)
John Arnold (1736–1799)
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Pouquelin) (1621/1622–1673)
Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753)
Martin Luther (1483–1546), Aged 63
Edward Harley (1689–1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)
Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894)
Portrait of August Riedel
John Winter Jones (1805–1881), Principal Librarian (1866–1878)
The Grand Vizier Done at Constantinople in 1702 (probably Huseyin Kôprülü, 1644–1702)
Backwater, Weymouth
Dr Matthew Maty (1718–1776), Principal Librarian (1772–1776)
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)
Lion
Witness my Act and Deed
Tejaprabhā Buddha and the Five Planets
John Turtle Wood (1821–1890)
Dr Andrew Gifford (1700–1784), Assistant Librarian (1756–1784)
Hormuzd Rassam (1826–1910)
Lion
A Qajar prince and his attendant
Jacob reproaching Laban
Sir Henry Ellis (1777–1869), Principal Librarian (1827–1856)
Baptism of the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia
A South View of Somerset House, from Waterloo Bridge
Admonitions Scroll
The Trustees in the Temporary Elgin Room, 1819
Jacques (Jean) Rousseau (1630–1693)
Mary Davis (b.c.1594), Aged 74
Mary Bygrave (1770–1846), Housekeeper to the Trustees, Aged 74
Three Views of the Head of a Native (probably a Sakalava), Madagascar
A Picture of Frere Jacques done by the Young Brower at Brussells
Distribution of Presents for the New Year by Shah Sultan Husayn
Bagnigge Wells
Lucerne: Moonlight
Untitled
The Double Cromlech at Plas Newydd, Anglesey
引路菩萨图
Kopf des Pferdes der Selene
Woureddy (d.1842)
Georges d'Armagnac (c.1501–1585), Bishop of Rodez, with His Secretary Guillaume Philandrier (d.1565)
Mary Tudor (1516–1558), as Princess (but possibly later)
Three Studies for the Dead Christ
Humfrey Wanley (1672–1726), Librarian
Self Portrait
Robert Harley (1661–1724), 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
George II (1683–1760)
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
'Voltaire' (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778)
Sir Frederick Augusta Barnard (1743–1830), Librarian to George III
Augustus II 'The Strong' (1670–1733), King of Poland and Elector of Saxony
Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860)
Lady Layard (1843–1912)
Dr Gowin Knight (1713–1772), Principal Librarian (1756–1772)
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840–1929), Director and Principal Librarian (1888–1909)
Sir Anthony Panizzi (1797–1879), Principal Librarian (1856–1866)
Richard Payne Knight (1751–1824), Benefactor and Trustee of the British Museum (copy after Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Sir Charles Newton (1816–1894), Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1861–1885)
Sir Frederic Madden (1801–1873), Keeper of Manuscripts (1837–1866)
Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), President of the Royal Society, Trustee of the British Museum
Sir Thomas Cotton (1592–1662), Bt
Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant, c.1743–1807)
Native North American Medicine Man
John Winter Jones (1805–1881), Principal Librarian (1866–1878) (after William Salter Herrick)
James I and VI
Henry Majendie (1754-1830), Bishop of Bangor and Chester
Joseph Planta (1744–1827), Principal Librarian (1799–1827)
Greta Bridge
William Courten (alias Charleton, 1642–1702), When Young
Sir Anthony Panizzi (1797–1879), Principal Librarian (1856–1866)
Montagu House, South-East Corner and Gateway
Claudius James Rich (1786/1787–1821)
Bridge at Meulan
Stonehenge from the West-South-West
A dismasted brig