| Sun 10 September 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Elephants, Deities and Ashoka’s Pillar: Coins of India from antiquity to the present As part of the commemoration in 2017 of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence - marked by the UK-India Year of Culture - this exhibition, drawn from the Fitzwilliam’s world-class numismatic collection, will explore the history of India through coins produced from the 4th century BC until recent times. |
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Honey from Many Flowers: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe and Salomon Gessner’s Idylls Carl Wilhelm Kolbe (1759–1835), produced prints after a set of landscape drawings by Salomon Gessner (1730-88), which capture the Romantic period’s preoccupation with the pastoral idyll and delight in the natural world. This exhibition showcases a recently acquired complete set of Kolbe’s twenty-five etchings, issued in five parts from 1805-11. |
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Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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Highlight The Best of All Possible Worlds: Quentin Blake and The Folio Society Sir Quentin Blake is the UK’s best loved illustrator. See his original illustrations for four classics – The Golden Ass, Candide, Fifty Fables of La Fontaine and Riddley Walker. |
