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 | | Thursday, 28 February, 2002, 18:50 GMT Historic items 'saved for nation'  Artworks are among the items saved Historic items worth more than �3.2m, including paintings by Rubens and William Blake, have been kept in the UK following export deferral. The government can save rare items "for the nation" by putting a bar on its removal from the country. Often a museum or gallery will then step in and buy the item so that it can be kept on public display. Arts minister Baroness Blackstone said: "It is a credit to the export deferral system that such important items have been saved for the nation. "The objects cover a whole range of cultural artefacts from letters to prehistoric axe heads.
The items include The Return from War, Mars disarmed by Venus by Rubens and Jan Brueghel and Guercino's painting Madonna of the Sparrow. Letters by author George Eliot and letters by Samuel Coleridge have also been saved. Other items include a rare Roman sculpture, three English wooden figures from the 15th Century, items of furniture and the personal archive of architect Charles Francis Annesley Voysey. | | See also:  Internet links: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Arts stories now:  Links to more Arts stories are at the foot of the page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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