Collection Timeline

2005 to Petrus Alphonsi

2005
The Wellington Monument at Hyde Park Corner, London. The sculpture is of the warrior, Achilles

2016
Photograph of Michelangelo's David taken at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
Renaissance caryatids of the musicians' loft in the Louvre Palace, Paris, by Jean Goujon, 1550

2019
Statue of Messalina holding her son Britannicus, at the Louvre, ca 45 CE

100
The Satyricon is a famous satirical work of fiction from the early Roman Empire.

1186
Contemporary miniature from the Topographia Hibernica, c. 1186–1188

120 BC
Detail from the Alexander Mosaic (created c. 120–100 BC)

1299
The Travels of Marco Polo was dictated by Polo to Rusticiano and discussed his voyages.

1300
Miniature depicting Queen Sancia of Mallorca caressing her stepgranddaughters Joanna and Maria, presented to her by their mother Marie of Valois.

1333
Queen Joan commissioning a work from translator Jean de Vignay, 1333

1390
Portrait of Richard II at Westminster Abbey, mid-1390s

1400
Charles seized by madness in the forest near Le Mans in 1392, shown in a miniature from Froissart's Chronicles

1446
Medal of Isotta degli Atti by Matteo de' Pasti, 1446.

1449
Portrait of a Princess by Pisanello - the sitter may be Ginevra. The woman also wears a twig of juniper an allusion to her name.

1450
Temptation of Eve, illustrated by Berthold Furtmeyr, found in the Furtmeyr Bible

1451
Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta by Piero della Francesca

1455
Portrait of Filippo Maria Visconti preparatory drawing by Pisanello for the commemorative medal of the Duke

1461
Charles the Bold in about 1461–1462, wearing the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, painted by Rogier van der Weyden

1473
Miniature from the southern Netherlands, 1473
Portrait from a manuscript Il modo di regere e di regnare by Antonio Cornazzano.

1476
Portrait of Pope Sixtus IV by Pedro Berruguete, c. 1476–1482

1495
Portrait attributed to Pedro Berruguete (c. 1495, oil on canvas, Vatican Museums)

1500
Profile portrait of Cesare Borgia in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, c. 1500–1510

1501
Photograph of Michelangelo's David taken at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

1509
Fresco depicting Plato, Aristotle, and other mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists

1518
Portrait by Dosso Dossi which is purported to depict Lucrezia, c. 1518

1525
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, by Il Sodoma, c. 1525

1540
Portrait of Henry VIII c. 1540–1547

1545
Portrait of Michelangelo, the Italian Renaissance artist.

1548
Self-Portrait as a Young Man, c. 1548

1550
Renaissance caryatids of the musicians' loft in the Louvre Palace, Paris, by Jean Goujon, 1550

1552
Portrait of Pope Paul II, Pinacoteca Civica, Como

1555
"Preste" as the Emperor of Ethiopia, enthroned on a map of East Africa. From an atlas by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Homem for Queen Mary, c. 1555–1559. (British Library)

1560
Portrait of Catherine de Medicis, c. 1560

1568
Portrait of Ezzelino III da Romano by Cristofano dell'Altissimo.

1570
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne, a writer of the French Renaissance
Thomas Aquinas, dressed in the Dominican habit, stands on a fountain. He has wings, holds a book and a quill in his hand, and a dove whispers God's word into his ear. Around him, monks and cardinals drink from the water of the fountain, symbolizing the inspiring words in Aquinas's writings. Angels in the sky carry a scroll with a Latin inscription and two coats of arms.

1576
Hand-drawn map of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire from 1576.

1580
Contemporary portrait of Anne de Joyeuse

1597
Romeo and Juliet
Narcissus is depicted in this Caraviggio painting looking at his own reflection in the pond

1605
Portrait of James I, c. 1605

1611
The Chandos portrait, likely depicting Shakespeare. There is no record of Shakespeare having ever sat for a portrait. However, there are several portraits, including this one that are likely depictions of the writer and actor.

1615
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, in the robes of the Order of the Garter c. 1615. Unknown artist, National Portrait Gallery, London.

1620
Rubens depiction of Silenus

1633
The Passion is the narrative of the short period of time before Jesus's death which is described in the four canonical gospels. The artwork depicts Jesus being crowned with thorns.
The Golden Apple of Discord by Jacob Jordaens

1636
Portrait of Charles I, 1636

1664
Tartuffe

1680
Portrait of John III Sobieski by Daniel Schultz, c. 1680

1688
The friendship of Apollo and Hermes, by Noël Coypel

1689
The works of Francis Osborn

1731
Manon Lescaut is a French tragic Romance novel that tells the story of a nobleman falling in love with a common woman.

1737
Balthazar Nebot's 1737 painting of the square before the 1830 market hall was constructed

1742
An engraving of Christ Church, Oxford, 1742

1746
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Cheerful Democritus, 1746.

1750
18th-century portrait of Cortés based on the one sent by the conqueror to Paolo Giovio, which has served as a model for many of his representations since the 16th century

1765
A view of Richmond Palace published in 1765 and based on earlier drawings

1777
Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a German art historian and archaeologist.

1784–88
Scene from the Tempest: Caliban, Prospero and Miranda

1787
Looking towards St George Hanover Square from St George Street, 1787

1788
The Love of Helen and Paris by Jacques-Louis David (oil on canvas, 1788, Louvre, Paris)

1789
The Idiot Boy

1795
Beatrice is the heroine of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. She is strong-willed and sharp-witted.

1796
In High-Change in Bond Street (1796), James Gillray caricatured the lack of courtesy on Bond Street (young men taking up the whole footpath), which was a grand fashionable milieu at the time.

1799
Pall Mall and St James's Square shown in Richard Horwood's map of 1799

1800
Le jugement de Chilpéric, a tyrannical portrayal of Chilperic by Jean-Paul Laurens

1808
The Hall of Carlton House

1810
A view of Piccadilly from Hyde Park Corner in London, from Ackermann's Repository, 1810.
Illustration of Pierre François Lacenaire

1820
Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis
A late Arrival at Mother Wood's

1822
The Wellington Monument at Hyde Park Corner, London. The sculpture is of the warrior, Achilles

1823
A view of the north and west fronts of Fonthill Abbey

1825
Haberdashers' Alms Houses, as rebuilt by D. R. Roper in 1825.

1830
Drawing of the Albany.
The Athenaeum Club in London in 1830. Engraved by James Tingle (1801-1858) from an original study (now in the Museum of London) by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

1836
Erection of the Luxor Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, October 25, 1836. Work by François Dubois, 1836.

1845
"Second Cologne Opera Gala" for the German AIDS Foundation. Excerpt of the concert "Opera Night" in Cologne, 2005.

1848–1849
Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, is a set of nine short solo piano pieces composed by Robert Schumann in 1848–1849, first published in 1850–1851 in Leipzig by Bartholf Senff.

1849
Waldszenen (Forest Scenes), Op. 82, is a set of nine short solo piano pieces composed by Robert Schumann in 1848–1849, first published in 1850–1851 in Leipzig by Bartholf Senff.
The younger and better of only two known photographs of Frédéric Chopin

1851
View of the Arch in 1851 as the ceremonial north entrance to Hyde Park

1852
Émaux et Camées

1856
Théophile Gautier was a French poet, writer, and literary critic.

1859
Velarium is visible in the background in Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant

1865
Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Trouville, 1865, Princeton University Art Museum

1866
Perdita dressed as a shepherdess

1868
Carbon print of a photograph of Charles Darwin

1871
Desdemona is the wife of Othello in Shakespeare's tragedy. She is killed by her husband in a fit of jealous rage.

1872
Grosvenor House, front screen viewed from Upper Grosvenor Street. The two pedimented archways either end of the screen are reproduced on the roof of the 1920s Grosvenor House Hotel which now stands on the site.
An 1872 painting by English artist Marcus Stone shows Edward II cavorting with Gaveston at left, while nobles and courtiers look on with concern.
Bluegate Fields in 1872, by Gustave Doré.

1875
1875 portrait, after an 1825 original

1884
À Rebours was a major source of inspiration for Oscar Wilde. Translated to "Against Nature," the novel follows an eccentric aristocrat who retreats into an insular artistic world. It has no plot in the traditional sense, but was taken up by the asthetes of the time.

1886
Portia, a wealthy Venetian heiress, is the heroine of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

1887
Collection of folklore and mythological tales compiled in the early 20th century. This collection mentions the Leanan Sidhe, an mythical muse who slowly eats away at an artist.

1888
Juliet Capulet is the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. She and Romeo are starcrossed lovers from fueding families
Imogen is the daughter of King Cymbeline in Shakespeare's play, Cymbeline.
Cordelia is the heroine of Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear. She is the youngest daughter of King Lear and the only one to remain loyal to him.
Ordinance survey map Cambridgeshire

1891
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

1893
Painting by John Collier, "A glass of wine with Caesar Borgia", from left: Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia, Pope Alexander, and a young man holding an empty glass. The painting represents the popular view of the treacherous nature of the Borgias – the implication being that the young man cannot be sure that the wine is not poisoned.

1894
Ophelia is the famous tragic heroine of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Her soon to be husband, Hamlet's actions, drive her mad and she drowns herself in the river.

1895
Symbolism was a late 19th century art movement. Major figures include Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine. The art depicted is The Death of the Grave Digger by Carlos Schwabe, a work highly saturated with symbols.

1897
De Profundis

1899
Le Cent Nouvelles was a collection of short stories in French about the French bourgeoisée

1900
The Death of Petronius
Photograph of Gustave Charpentier

1902
Dorset Street, Spitalfields. Dorset Street, UK, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss. Miller's Court was reached through an alleyway on the right.

1905
Whitechapel High Street, and St Mary Matfelon, in 1905

1908
Porte Saint-Denis (1908)

1916
Rosalind is the heroine of Shakespeare's As You Like it, one of his comedies. She disguises herself as a male shepherd in the play.

1921
City and harbour of Algiers, c. 1921

2003
Dragon statue on the Temple Bar monument, which marks the boundary between the City of Westminster and City of London

2006
The Mourning Athena relief with Athena wearing a peplos, c. 460 BC
Film House at 142 Wardour Street, formerly the headquarters of the Associated British-Pathé film company

2007
"Lady in blue", molded and gilded terracotta figurine, Louvre, Paris
10 Hertford Street, home of General John Burgoyne
Sleeping Hermaphroditus, The Louvre, Paris

2008
Roman marble bust of Tiberius
Looking westwards along Curzon Street

2013
Bust of Domitian in the Louvre

2015
Photo of the Orleans House Gallery
Marble bust, Capitoline Museums, Rome
Dudley House in 2015

23 December 2008
Looking westwards along Curzon Street

300
Hylas and nymphs from a mosaic in Roman Gaul
Miniature depicting Queen Sancia of Mallorca caressing her stepgranddaughters Joanna and Maria, presented to her by their mother Marie of Valois.

405 BC
The Bacchae is an Ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides. It tells the story of Dionysus and his followers

410 BC
Attic red-figure aryballos painting by Aison (c. 410 BC) showing Adonis consorting with Aphrodite

45 CE
Statue of Messalina holding her son Britannicus, at the Louvre, ca 45 CE

490 BCE
Ganymede pouring Zeus a libation (Attic red-figure calyx krater by the Eucharides Painter, c. 490–480 BCE)

565
History of the Wars

A Margarite of America
A Margarite of America

August 1850
Lohengrin is an opera written by Wagner first performed in August 1850.

January 2006
Film House at 142 Wardour Street, formerly the headquarters of the Associated British-Pathé film company

June 1820
A late Arrival at Mother Wood's

June 1867
The New Royal Amphitheatre in The Illustrated London News (June 1867) showing the equestrian ring with the small stage behind

Late 18th or early 19th century
Almack's Assembly Rooms in King Street, St. James, London. Late 18th or early 19th century.

May 2026
Rupert Street Bar at 50 Rupert Street in Soho, London.
Jermyn Street in London.

Petrus Alphonsi
Clericalis Disciplina