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Mural painting and decoration

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Images from the collections

Images about Mural painting and decoration

13 images from works
  • Noah, drunk and naked, being covered in a garment by his sons, Shem and Japheth; with a border of naked men holding medallions. Halftone after Michelangelo.
  • Saint Christopher. Wood engraving by W.G. Smith.
  • Saint Christopher (?). Colour lithograph, 1842.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: visitors in the Painted Hall, with Horatio Nelson's catafalque. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • The crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the crucifixion of Saint Andrew. Colour lithograph after F.J. Baigent, 1852, after a painting.
  • Saint Christopher. Process print after a lithograph (?).
  • Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph after G.E. Chauffourier, 1928.
  • Partly ruined buildings in Ostia identified as a tavern or hot-food shop (thermopolium) from the 3rd century AD: a fresco depicting vegetables, wine and fruit, seen from the front; marble steps descend below. Photograph.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the Painted Hall, with many visitors. Wood engraving by M. Jackson after L. H. Michael, 1865.
  • Saint Christopher. Aquatint by Ravenhill after E. Pearce.

Works from the collections

27 works

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    Saint Christopher. Wood engraving by W.G. Smith.

    Smith, Worthington George, 1835-1917. | Date: 1864 | Reference: 4633i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Saint Christopher. Process print after a lithograph (?).

    | Reference: 4632i
    • Books

    The pictorial catalogue : mural decoration in libraries / André Masson ; translated by David Gerard.

    Masson, André, 1900-1986. | Date: 1981
    • Books

    Ancient Maya paintings of Bonampak Mexico.

    Carnegie Institution of Washington. | Date: 1955
    • Books

    The murals of Bonampak / Mary Ellen Miller.

    Miller, Mary Ellen. | Date: [1986], ©1986

Related topics

Ruined buildings
Fashion
Taverns (Inns)
Hospitals, Naval and marine
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Fast food restaurants
Ostia (Extinct city)

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