The Royal Ballet is Britain's largest ballet Company. This "Royal Ballet Organizer" is a handbag size notebook which includes printed endpapers with evocative black and white photographs and early color photographs from the Company's early years. With a flexi binding and an elastic closer, the organ[...]
The Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Libraries hold several collections of drawings made by Asian artists, whether made for the export market to Europe, commissioned by British officials, or, in recent times, made by amateur and professional artists for exhibition and sale in the international ma[...]
"The British Library Desk Diary 2015" focuses on classic book illustrations and includes images from favourite authors including Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. There are illustrations from crime novels, science fiction and fantasy as well as children's classics like Alice's Adventure[...]
London Underground is renowned for its poster archive and the Tube has become "London's longest art gallery." Historically these eye-catching posters enticed prospective travellers indirectly by focusing on the destination rather than the mode of travel and as the Underground expanded so did its pot[...]