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2020
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The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace evokes a response from almost everyone that you meet. Its fame is part of our culture. There were, of course two Crystal Palaces. They were built for different purposes. This talk will explain some of the motives that brought this about. I have concentrated upon British Library...King, Ed
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The William Dyce and Edward Machell Cox collections of art sale catalogues in the British Library
In the flyer for this talk I called sale catalogues ‘unassuming’ and ‘half-hidden’. ‘Unassuming’ because they often are simple lists of works, ‘half-hidden’ because, in the British Library at least, they are not always catalogued separately and therefore are easy to miss. They are, however, extremely important for the study...Michaelides, Chris