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The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day by Canaletto
Art, history and stories

Videos, activities and trails highlighting the Royal Collection and Palaces

Challenges and activities

Explore the tasks and challenges below, inspired by works from the Royal Collection:

Amongst the more modern holdings of Shakespeare’s works in the Royal Library is this Kelmscott Press edition of the poems and sonnets. The Kelmscott Press, run by the arts-and-crafts designer William Morris (1834–96), aimed to produce printed
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Secrets of sonnets
Detail from a page of watercolours of three Tulips including an Agatte Robin Tulip, a Penelope Tulip and a Yellow Crown Tulip by artist Alexander Marshal
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Drawing from nature
Silhouette: many well-to-do figures profile left to right. Freize like. Trees left and right. (After an original at Althorp, collection of the late Earl Spencer)
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Make your own paper silhouette
image of drawings and pens
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Art for wellbeing
Collage designed by Alexandra, Princess of Wales
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The Art of Collage
Dolls House desk
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Dolls’ House desk
Detail from a letter to King George III by Queen Charlotte
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Royal correspondence
The ring comprises an octagonal step-cut sapphire, open-set in gold, overlaid with four oblong and one square rubies in gold strips forming a cross, within a border of twenty cushion-shaped brilliants in transparent silver collets. Brilliants decorate the
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Stories in Stones
Close up of door lock
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Marvellous mechanisms
Silver inkstand
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Inkstand Surprise
Master: Pair of vases
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Virtual jigsaw puzzle
drawing of hands by Leonardo da Vinci
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Hands-on art
close up of wooden cabinet decorated with inlaid flowers and birds
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Curious Cabinets
Drawing of the lower section of the Grand Canal, Venice
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Art techniques
An ivory elephant with separate, jointed body legs and head, ridden by an enamel man sitting on its head and carrying a pink and white enamel castle with two  rose cut diamond set bands and a pierced upper rim, the top set with a
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Elephant automaton
Detail of an illustration showing various garden herbs, from the book by John Hill 'The British herbal: an history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use or raised for beauty' (RCIN 1052134)
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Herbs for Wellbeing: a potted history

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