Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 748 of them are on view in the museum now. 84,693 of them are available online. There are 1,596 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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A black ink and wash drawing of a lone female figure wearing a gown leaning against a column. She looks off into the distance. The background is gestural and abstract.

George Romney

Study for the Portrait of Frances Woodley (Mrs. Henry Bankes)
Realistically rendered etching of a cast of characters inhabiting an 18th-century mental institution. The room is populated with institutionalized men, while two upper-class women shield their eyes with fans.

William Hogarth

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse)