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

Discover the art, history and stories associated with the Royal Collection and the Royal Palaces and Residences

    Challenges and activities

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

    Volume of poetry open at one of Shakespeare's Sonnets
    Secrets of sonnets
    Detail from a watercolour of three flowering plants, including a white buttercup Ranunculus aconitifolius, a purple milkwort and a striped tulip.
    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)
    Make your own paper silhouette
    photograph of drawings and pens
    Art for wellbeing
    Collage designed by Alexandra, Princess of Wales
    The Art of Collage
    Dolls House desk
    Dolls’ House desk
    Painting of a young Queen Victoria by Sir William Ross
    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
    Stories in Stones
    close up of door lock
    Marvellous mechanisms
    Silver inkstand
    Inkstand Surprise
    Chinese painted porcelain vase
    Virtual jigsaw puzzle
    drawing of hands by Leonardo da Vinci
    Hands-on art
    close up of inlaid decoration of flowers and birds on wooden cabinet
    Curious Cabinets
    Drawing of a lower section of the Grand Canal, Venice
    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
    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)
    Herbs for Wellbeing: a potted history

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