Exhibitions - Life Lines

Some of the University's most simple but delightful works of art are to be displayed in a new exhibition in the University Library. Life Lines features unique drawings and cartoons from the Fine Art collection, and shows just how much can be achieved with only a few lines on paper.

Among the highlights are genuine pencil sketches by Thomas Gainsborough and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, pastel drawings by Archibald Skirving and Frederick Leighton, and original Punch cartoons by Bernard Partridge and Sir John Tenniel. The exhibition will be complemented by some of the most attractive illustrated books from the Library's own collections.

The exhibition runs from 26 June until 26 October, and during the summer vacation the Library is open Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays).

"Delia" is a pencil study by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

"Ancient Warfare" is by Caran D'Ache (a pseudonym for Emmanuel Poire (there should be an acute accent on the e in Poire but I don't know how to do that on this computer!) 1858-1909). Caran D'Ache is Russian for pencil. He was born in Russia, son of a French soldier stationed in Moscow during the Napoleonic Wars. He became one of France's leading cartoonists, and is credited as being one of the inventors of the comic strip.

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