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Free Thinking18th-Century Power PoliticsThe First Georgians: Art & Monarchy 1714-1760

The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. 11 April - 12 October 2014.

  • R Cattermole, The Cupola Room, Kensington Palace, c. 1817
  • Frederick's son, later George III, by Jean-Etienne Liotard, 1754
  • The Neptune Centrepiece, 1741-2
  • William Hogarth, David Garrick and his Wife, Eva-Maria Veigel, 1757-64
  • Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto), London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards Westminster, c.1750
  • Organ clock, The Temple and Oracle of Apollo, 1608-65
  • Barthélemy du Pan, The Children of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1746
  • Christian Frederick Zincke, George II, c.1727
  • The Neptune Centrepiece, 1741-2
  • Meissen Porcelain Factory, tea, coffee and chocolate service, c.1725
  • George I by John Vanderbank, 1726
  • Sir Godfrey Kneller, George II as Prince of Wales, 1716
  • Jacopo Amigoni, Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1735–36
  • Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, oval dish from a dessert service, 1752-6
  • Christian Frederick Zincke, Queen Caroline, c.1727
  • Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller, George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Elector of Hanover, c.1715
  • Pier table, 1723-24

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  • Free Thinking—18th-Century Power Politics

    With Anne McElvoy. Historians including Amanda Foreman on 18th-century monarchy and power.

    BBC Radio 3

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  • Portrait of the Artist: Käthe Kollwitz—Kathe Kollwitz, John Ashbery, Social Conservatism in US and Europe

  • Matthew Sweet Explores London Through Its Archives.—Being Human: What the Archives Reveal

  • Street Furniture Design—Hisham Matar, Street Furniture, Easternisation, Katherine Cooper on Storm Jameson

  • Superwoman: ‘Work, build and don't whine'—Walter Benjamin, the Soviet Superwoman, Munch

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