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Joseph Paxton: The Transept of the Great Exhibition of 1851, 1851, watercolour by Joseph Nash showing the transept of the Crystal Palace (London, Victoria and Albert Museum); photo credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Art Resource, NY

London, St Paul’s Cathedral by Christopher Wren, interior view of the choir looking east, 1675–1711; photo credit: Anthony Scibilia/Art Resource, NY

Robert Smirke (ii): South Elevation of the North Wing of the British Museum, drawing, 335×455 mm, c. 1833 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Hellmouth, miniature from the Winchester Psalter, 325×230 mm, c. 1150 (London, British Library, MS. Nero C. IV); photo credit: HIP/Art Resource, NY

Gwen John: Nude Girl, oil on canvas, 445×279 mm, 1909–10 (London, Tate); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London, photo credit: Tate, London/Art Resource, NY

Ben Nicholson: White Relief, oil on panel, 1.02×1.66 m, 1935 (London, Tate); © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London, photo credit: Tate, London/Art Resource, NY

Side chair (set of fourteen), each 972×559×571 mm, by Thomas Chippendale, mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, made in England, c. 1772 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and The Annenberg Foundation Gifts, Gift of Irwin Untermyer and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, Bruce Dayton Gift, and funds from various donors, 1996, Accession ID: 1996.426.1–.14); image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Delftware dish, diam. 556 mm, made by Pickleherring Pottery, Southwark, 1663 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Bowl of a drinking cup, silver, niello and gilding, h. 2 3/4, d. 6 3/4 in. (7 x 17.1 cm), c. 1200 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1947, Accession ID: 47.101.31); photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Earthenware glazed wave bowl, 178×178×114 mm, made at Linthorpe Pottery Works and attributed to Christopher Dresser, c. 1880 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, James David Draper Gift, in memory of Robert Isaacson, 2001, Accession ID: 2001.549); image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cameo-glass amphora known as the Portland Vase, h. 240 mm, Roman, c. ad 5–25 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Belt buckle, gold with niello inlay, l. 132 mm, from Sutton Hoo, early 7th century ad (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Armada Service, engraved silver, from London, 1581–1601 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Electroplate teapot designed by Christopher Dresser and made by James Dixon and Sons, h. 185 mm, 1878–85 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Phoenix Jewel, gold and enamel, w. 46 mm, English, c. 1570–80 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Workshop of John Vanderbank, London, d. 1717: Tapestry of a Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenes, wool, silk (19-20 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.), H. 119 3/4 x W. 187 inches (304.2 x 475 cm), as measured by Textile Conservation in 1984, 1690–1715 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. George F. Baker, 1953, Accession ID: 53.165.1); photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Merton Abbey Studio, after design by John Henry Dearle, 1860–1932 and woven by John Martin: Greenery tapestry, wool and silk, 83 1/2 x 185 in. (212.1 x 469.9 cm), designed 1892; woven 1915 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923, Accession ID: 23.200a); photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Embroidery panel depicting a Musical Garden Party, silk on canvas, 13 x 20 1/2 in. (33 x 52.1 cm), English, 3rd quarter of the 17th century (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, Accession ID:64.101.1314); photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/120046709

Robert Jones: Hunting and Fishing Scenes, linen and cotton, W. 39 in. (99.1 cm), L. 81 1/8 in. (206.1 cm), 1769 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1983, Accession ID:1983.365); photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/120047465

Morris and Company: Length of printed cotton, W. 38 1/4 in. (97.2 cm), L. 8 ft. 7 1/2 in. (262.9 cm), 19th–20th century (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923, Accession ID:23.163.7); photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/120039154

Silk dress, l. 1.11 m, British, c. 1850 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gifts in memory of Paul M. Ettesvold, and Judith and Gerson Leiber Fund, 1994, Accession ID: 1994.302.1); image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inigo Jones: Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, 1619–22; Photo credit: Foto Marburg/Art Resource, NY

Acanthus motifs (from top to bottom): (a) carved ornament at the top of a marble stele, from Athens, c. 390–c. 365 bc (London, British Museum, Sculpture 605); (b) stone relief from the church of SS Sergios and Bakchos, Istanbul, ad 527–36; (c) detail of a border and corner rosette from the Benedictional of St Aethelwold, Winchester, Old Minster, c. ad 980 (London, British Library, Add. MS. 49598, fol. 25)

London, Palace of Westminster, plan of the medieval buildings: (a) great court; (b) Lesser, New or White Hall; (c) St Stephen’s Chapel (subsequently House of Commons); (d) Exchequer; (e) Receipt of the Exchequer; (f) great hall; (g) clock-tower; (h) Star Chamber; (i) water-gate; (j) King’s Bridge; (k) great conduit; (l) main gate-house; (m) inner gate; (n) base-court; (o) kitchen; (p) chamber built for King’s household knights; (q) Painted Chamber; (r) approx. site of gallery; (s) Queen’s Chamber (subsequently House of Lords); (t) Queen’s Chapel; (u) Jewel Tower; (v) St Stephen’s Cloister; (w) chapter house

Wenceslaus Hollar: View of the Tower of London, pen and brown ink with watercolour over black lead, 111×283 mm, c. 1640 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Louis-François Roubiliac: Oliver Cromwell, terracotta, h. 633 mm, c. 1759 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Hans Holbein (ii): ‘The Ambassadors’, oil on panel, 2.07×2.09 m, 1533 (London, National Gallery); Photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource

William Morris: ‘Eveniode’ pattern, chintz, 1883 (London, Victoria and Albert Museum); Photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY

Arts and Crafts table designed by William Morris, wood, 1865 (London, Victoria and Albert Museum); photo credit of Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Art Resource, NY

Wedgwood Pegasus Vase, pale blue and white jasper, h. 464 mm, made at the Etruria works after a design by John Flaxman, 1786 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Bow porcelain bowl, diam. 97 mm, decoration by Thomas Craft, c. 1760 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Derby porcelain figure of King George III, h. 340 mm, c. 1775 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Minton ‘Moon Flasks’, porcelain decorated by Thomas Mellor, h. 260 mm, 1879 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

James Powell & Sons: tazza, engraved glass with cotton-twist stem, h. 210 mm, c. 1902 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Sutton Hoo, shoulder-clasps, gold inlaid with garnets, millefiori glass and blue glass, l. 127 mm, early 7th century ad (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Purse lid, whale-bone ivory, gold, garnet and millefiori glass, l. 190 mm, from Sutton Hoo, early 7th century ad (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Fuller Brooch, silver and niello, diam. 114 mm, late 9th century ad (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Dunstable Swan Jewel, white enamel used en ronde bosse over gold, h. 33 mm, English or French, c. 1400 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Gianlorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne, marble, h. 2.43 m, 1622–4 (Rome, Galleria Borghese); Photo credit: Scala/Art Resource, NY

Candlestick, gilt-bronze, h. 584 mm, made for Abbot Peter of Gloucester, England, 1107–13 (London, Victoria and Albert Museum); photo credit: Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Art Resource, NY

Aquamanile in the form of a knight on horseback, bronze, h. 330 mm, English, late 13th century (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

London, plan of the Tower of London: (a) White Tower; (b) Martin Tower; (c) Salt Tower; (d) Cradle Tower; (e) Lanthorn Tower; (f) Wakefield Tower; (g) Bloody Tower; (h) St Thomas’s Tower; (i) Bell Tower; (j) Byward Tower; (k) Middle Tower; (l) Lion Tower; (m) Beauchamp Tower; (n) chapel of St Peter ad Vincula; (o) Devereux Tower

Hanging bowl, bronze and champlevé enamel, h. 140 mm, diam. 310 mm, from Sutton Hoo, late 6th–early 7th century ad (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Opus anglicanum, scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, gold, silver and coloured silk thread on linen, 240×535 mm, 1310–40 (London, British Museum); photo © The British Museum

Looped-pile carpet: (a) Brussels carpet; (b) Wilton carpet

Hubert van Eyck, completed by Jan van Eyck: Ghent Altarpiece, oil on panel, 3.65×4.87 m (wings open), c. 1423–32 (Ghent, St Bavo); Photo credit: Giraudon/Art Resource, NY

Claude Lorrain: Seaport with the Embarkation of St Ursula, oil on canvas, 1.13×1.49 m, 1641 (London, National Gallery); Photo credit: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY

Sandro Botticelli: Mystic Nativity, tempera on canvas, 1085×749 mm, 1501 (London, National Gallery); Photo credit: Art Resource, NY

Edouard Manet: The Bar at the Folies-Bergere, oil on canvas, 952×1295 mm, 1881‒82 (London, Courtauld Institute Galleries); photo credit: Album/Art Resource, NY