Alexandra Harris tracks our enduring love affair with gallery gift shops, from eighteenth-century tea cups to postcards in space.

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

Acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about the inspiration behind her writing. In this lecture, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will explore how she came to write and gives personal insight into ...

Inklings, ideas and experiments that never reached completion by four RA Schools students. This exhibition of work by RA Schools students explores the potential of ideas which never reached completion ...

This print is part of the 'British School II' album, which originally contained 170 prints published between around 1713 and 1810. A significant number (around 15-20) have since been removed. The ...

This print is one of 180 plates which make up the 'British School I' album, presumably compiled in the early nineteenth century. This album is prefaced by a nine-page text entitled ‘Notes relating to ...

500 # # $a No author is indicated but possibly by Belzoni himself. The printer statement is on the verso of the title-page (and at the end of the pamphlet): 'London ...

No author is indicated but possibly by Belzoni himself. The printer statement is on the verso of the title-page (and at the end of the pamphlet): 'London: / Printed by William Clowes, / Northumberland ...

The feast of the Passover, or the Last Supper, of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with the twelve apostles; sublime composition of that immortal artist, Leonardo da Vinci; painted about the year 1500. - London ...

561 # # $a Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55). 561 # # $a ...