Recreational Gallery

Horse-riders going toward the Bois de Boulogne; Cavaliers se Rendant au Bois de Bologne

825256 Horse-riders going toward the Bois de Boulogne; Cavaliers se Rendant au Bois de Bologne, 1888 (gouache on board) by Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901); 85.1x53.6 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Horse-riders going toward the Bois de Boulogne; Cavaliers se Rendant au Bois de Bologne. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Gouache on board. Painted in 1888. 85.1 x 53.6cm.); Photo A© Christie's Images; French, out of copyright

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Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures, c1620

Cognoscenti in a Room hung with Pictures, c1620. In the left foreground men round a table under an open casement window with leaded lights examine books, prints and scientific instruments. In the right foreground another group is viewing paintings. All the wall space in the room is covered with paintings. From the National Gallery, London

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Undergraduate female student tea party, December 1920

Female undergraduates at Somerville College, Oxford, enjoying a tea party hosted in the living quarters of one of the students. Somerville College was founded in 1879 and named after Mrs Mary Somerville, a Scottish mathematician and physicist. It was Oxford's first non-denominational college and admitted only women. This image is part of a wider article on female recreational activities at University. Date: 1920

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