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The Horkstow Mosaic
Rock and Roll! - Or How to Lift a Mosaic
159 Woodhouse Lane
The Skerne Sword
Adopt a Painting - An Interior with Ladies and Gentlemen at Cards
Adopt a Painting - The Sally
Adopt a Painting - The Holy Family with Two Female Saints
Adopt a Painting - The Lame Duck
Adopt a Painting - Lady Barrington Bouchier
The Discovery of Tutankhamun
Adopt a Painting - The Entombment of Atala
Adopt a Painting - Sophronia asking the Saracen King Aladine to release the Christian Prisoners
Adopt a Painting - The Death of Dido
Adopt a Painting - Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Adopt a Painting - Aurora and Tithonius
Adopt a Painting - Madonna and Child with St Joseph
Adopt a Painting - The Man with the Muck Rake
Adopt a Painting - Holy Family
Adopt a Painting - Portrait of George Birkbeck
A Mineral Mystery to Mull Over
The Hull Tapestry Project
Peter Howson
Roos Carr Figures: Faces From the Past
'Interior of a Wallpaper Manufacturers Workshop'
Ulysses and the Sirens
The Brantingham Tyche Mosaic
The Slave in Chains
Landscape with cattle
Hull as a Timber Port
The Rudston Charioteer Mosaic
The Rudston Aquatic Mosaic
The Story of the Rudston Mosaics
The Brantingham Geometric Mosaics
Everything you always wanted to know about mosaics
Slavery Collections
Do you know your Utility wear from your 'New Look'?
So You Think You Know Your Scrimshaw?
Wilberforce - Man, Monument and Museum
Fossil Detective
Thomas Thompson (1754 - 1828)
Fishy Business!
Mary Dawson Elwell oil painting
The Leopards Panel
Forty Years' Researches
Furniture Making in Hull
From 159 Woodhouse Lane to Hull Streetlife Museum
Decorated Whale Teeth
Decorated Whalebone Plaque (c.1801-1900)
Silver Spoon by Robert Robinson, Hull, 1630
Silver Wine Cup, Made in London in 1625
The Johnson Salver, Made by Thomas Mangie, York, 1666
Delft Tile
William De Morgan Carnation Tiles, Made at Sands End Pottery, Fulham, c.1888-1897
William De Morgan Tiles, Made at Sand's End Pottery, Fulham, c.1888-1897
Set of Tiles by Maw & Company, Shropshire, c.1860
Longcase Clock by Thomas Henderson, Hull, mid-1700s
Skeleton Clock by Thomas Cowham, Hull, c.1841-1851
Bracket Clock by John Baker, Hull, c.1760
Bracket Clock Sold by Barnby & Rust, Hull, 1911
Evening Dress by Madame Clapham, Hull, c.1929
Day Dress by Madame Clapham, Hull, 1891
Evening Dress by Madame Clapham, Hull, c.1920-1929
Return from the Farm
Harewood Castle Self Portrait
An Imaginary Dutch Church Interior
Alexander the Great Slaying his General Cleitus
Annunciation
Vertumnus and Pomona
Old Man Writing
Old Woman Reading
Untitled 1980/1
Portrait of Francis Burdett
A Squadron Going to Windward in a Gale
The Whaling Fleet of Sir Samuel Standidge
The Standidge Whaling Fleet (Berry, Britannia and British Queen) in the Arctic
Portrait of a Lady
The Annunciation
A View on the Grand Canal
Fish market
Interior with Ladies and Gentleman at Cards
Danäe
Portrait of Cornelia Burch, Aged Two Months
Winter Landscape
The Edge of the Wood
Family Group
Northfleet near Greenwich
Man of War on a Calm Sea
Shipping on the Medway
Westminster Bridge
The Twin Children of Capt. George Walsh, Master Mariner of Selby, Yorkshire
Head of a Girl
The Progress of Civilsation: The Ancient Britons instructed by the Romans in the Mechanical Arts
The Poacher's Snare
Virgin and Child with St Joseph
View of the South End, Hull, Taken in the Year 1809
The’s Gravensteen Gate abd the Sint Veerleplein in Ghent, 1833
The Old Harbour, Hull
The Stable Door
A Baltic trader off Paull, Hull in the Distance
Caught in the Ice
Three paddle-steamers, ‘Kingston’, ‘Prince Frederick’ and ‘Calder’ of Selby in Hull Roads
The Three-Masted Barque ‘Halcyon’ of Hull
Hull Whalers in the Arctic
The Shipyard at Hessle Cliffs
View of the Port of Hull with the 'Spartan'
‘The Wellington Coach’ (The Newcastle-York-London Mail)
Portrait of Captain Joseph Boulderson
Copy after Titian’s ‘La Bella’
‘King Charles Demanding Entrance at the Beverley Gate, Hull, April 23, 1642’
Loading a Timber Wagon in the Grounds of Cave Castle, Yorkshire
The Hongs at Canton
Oriental Scene by Moonlight
Picturesque landscape with a Man Fishing and Another Sketching Before a Bridge
A Ship in Rough Seas Near a Chalk Headland
Oriental scene, East Indies: A procession
Landscape with Hills, Cottages and Figures
Cloud Study
Landscape with a Woman Crossing a Stream
Coast Scene in Picardy near Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme
The Eel catcher
Man on Horseback with a Page
Limehouse Reach
Portraits of Rachel Mary and Elizabeth Francis Constable (Mrs Salmond and Mrs Bentinck)
Nativity
St. Benedict, Christ, St. John the Baptist
View of Het Valckhof, Nijmegen
Still Life
Sailing Boats in a Rough Sea
Farm Scene
Landscape, River Scene
Mountainous Landscape with Figures
Portrait of Rosamond Clifford, Mistress of King Henry II
A Woman (possibly a member of the Strickland family, formerly called Anne Hyde, Duchess of York)
Landscape (Mousehold Heath)
Portrait of King Charles I
Pistols by William Needler, Hull, c.1849-1867
Ivory and Silver Jewel Casket by Katherine Mangie, Hull, c.1685-1697
Coconut cup by James Birkby, Hull, c.1651
Porringer by Thomas Hebden, Hull, c.1675-1695
Tankard by Thomas Hebden, Hull, c.1680
Sheriff's Mace by Edward Mangie, Hull, c.1660
Sampler by Shipnarh Cotton Green, Hull, 1884
Sampler by Elizabeth Pashley, Hull, 1854
Heart Amulet from Ancient Egypt, c.1500BC
Glass vase, 1857
Bowl, possibly made in Liverpool, c.1797
Bowl made in Elsinore, Denmark, c.1908
Ship's figurehead, made in Scotland, c.1837
Decorated stem chock from a Humber keel, 1900s
Shop sign, possibly made in Hull, c.1848-1889
Wheelbarrow by Richardson & Sons, Hull, 1862
Puzzle Jug, c.1600-1750
Evening Dress by Madame Clapham, Hull, c.1930-1932
Model of Wilberforce House by Waterfall Heraldic China, c.1906-1927
Donkey Cart, Sicily, c.1925
'Dave Bowie' boob tube made in Hull, 1973
Footman's uniform, Wilkinson & Son, London, late 1800s - early 1900s
Wall tile, H&R Johnson, Cobridge, Staffordshire, c.1904
Pair of tiles by Menasque Rodriguez, Seville, Spain, c.1900
Anglo-Saxon Brooch, AD 500-599
The Humber Street Madonna, c.1401-1450
Chafing Dish, Saintonge, France, c.1501-1600
Anglo-Saxon Pendant, AD 600-700
Alabaster carving of Christ, made in Nottingham or York, c.1450
Decorated whale's tooth (scrimshaw) by Frederick Myrick, USA, 1829
Hull's Great Mace, made in London, 1776
Anti-slavery needlework panel, c.1836
Evening dress, c.1805-1810
Glass goblet, 1800
Flint blade, East Yorkshire, c.3000BC
Bronze Age beaker, East Yorkshire, c.2000BC
Jet necklace and button, East Yorkshire, c.2500-500BC
Celtic sword scabbard plate
Egyptian amphora, c.2500BC
Penannular ring, East Yorkshire, c.1150-750BC
Brooch, made in Roman Britain
Roman 'leech' brooch, made in Italy
Roman mosaic, Rudston, East Yorkshire, c.300-400 AD
Roman gold earrings, c.100-400 AD
Roman wall plaster, Brantingham, Yorkshire, c.300-400 AD
Suede shoe, c.1640-1650
Statuette of King Charles II, c.1660
Sergeant's silver mace, 1651
Snuff box, 1665
Wine bottle, 1670-1680
Wedding dress by Madame Clapham, Hull, 1892
Bust of an enslaved African by W.T. Copeland, Staffordshire, after 1847
Tile by Minton Hollins & Co, Staffordshire, c.1880
Horse brass, c.1860-1870
Foot warmer, c.1700-1850
Painted coach panel, c.1700-1850
Tile, possibly made in East Yorkshire, c.1201-1400
Terracotta candlestick, probably made in Holland, c.1401-1500
Tankards by Marmaduke Best, York, 1671
Wine cup, London, 1607
Silver tankard by Edward Mangie, Hull, 1660
Pair of tiles by Minton, Hollins & Co., Stoke on Trent, 1871
Pair of tiles, Spain, c.1501-1600
Decorated walrus tusk (scrimshaw) c.1801-1900
Decorated whale's tooth (scrimshaw), USA, c.1801-1900
Fijian tabua
Decorated whalebone plaque, c.1848-1900
Search Tips and Help
A Zeeland States yacht firing a salute off the Oude Hoofdpoort, Rotterdam
Detecting Direction
Locating Location
Navigating the World's Waters
Signs that brightened up the town!
Mr Walter Thomas Castelow
J. Arthur Rank - 'The Man Behind the Gong'
Telling the Time
Christ Driving the Moneychangers from the Temple
Decorated with Love
Eileen
The Deposition
Priest Carrying the Blessed Sacrament
La Belle Jaune Giroflée
Kate Reclining
The Diana
The First Born, 1913
Hull Museums - events
The East Yorkshire Regiment: From the West Indies to the Western Front
Roman oil lamp, Eastern Mediterranean
Roman Oil Lamp from the Eastern Mediterranean
Cup and saucer, probably made in Hull, 1857
The Rudston Swastika Mosaic
T. R. Ferens (part 1)
Dutch Tin Glazed Tiles
Andrew Marvell (part 1)
Andrew Marvell (part 2)
1940s Fashion - Rationing and Making do
Sir James Reckitt
The Boneshaker Bicycle
The Hull Tapestry, Made by the Hull Tapestry Group, 1991-2007
Whaling Weapons
Roman glass bottle, Jerusalem, Israel, c.300-500 AD
Sailing Vessels Off the Coast
H.M.S. Clio, 1923
Off the Canaries (British Cruiser Auxiliary Steam)
Deux Plans Virtuels, 1965
Cleopatra
Reclining Figure
R.38 Airship: Disaster Over the Humber
Dining chairs by Robert Wright, Bond Street, Hull, c.1810-1830
Chairs by Robert Wright, Bond Street, Hull, c.1810-1830
Desk by Audas & Leggott, HUll, c.1880
Chair, late 1700s
Chiffonier by Robert Wright, Bond Street, Hull, c.1830
Silver skillet by James Birkby, Hull, 1650
Pearlware Jug, c.1811
Anti-slavery vase, possibly by Coalport, Shropshire, c.1790-1820
The Oldest 'Ball' in Britain
Right Up Your Street
The Freedom Centrepiece 2007
The Freedom Centrepiece by Jocelyn Burton, 2007
Digging the Past
Roman mosaic, Rudston, East Yorkshire, c.200-299 AD
The Rudston Venus mosaic
Longcase clock by Samuel Atkinson, Bridlington, c.1760
Bracket clock by Kirk, Grimsby Lane, Hull, c.1840
Catch fortune when you can
William De Morgan
Love survives in our Museum's
D.O.M.
When You Wake
The trial of William Lord Russell
Water Falls Down
Self Portrait, Fingers
Veil
Message to My Best Friend
How I Would Probably Do It
Lightships and the Humber
Roman mosaic, Rudston, East Yorkshire, c.200-300 AD
Ball Gown by Madame Clapham, Hull, c.1900
Painted whale's tooth (scrimshaw), c.1801-1900
Decorated whale's tooth (scrimshaw) by Charles Hargraves, Ontario, Canada, 1979
Decorated walrus tusk (scrimshaw) c.1837-1901
Decorated whale's tooth (scrimshaw), USA, c.1801-1900
Wool winder made from whalebone (scrimshaw)
Decorated whalebone, possibly made in South Georgia, 1900s
Sunderland-ware jug, c.1801-1900
Model of William Wilberforce by Minton, Stoke-on-Trent, c.1830-1836
Jug, 1807
Jug, late 1700s-early 1800s
Model of Hannah More by Minton, Stoke-on-Trent, c.1830-1836
Wilberforce House teaspoon by S&CS, Birmingham, 1908-1909
Longcase clock by William Rust, 21 Market Place, Hull, c.1806-1810
Bracket clock by King & Co., Hull and Paris, late 1800s
Longcase clock by Robert Holborn, South Cave, East Yorkshire, c.1765
Bracket clock by Charles Gardner, Hull, c.1840
Sideboard, c.1791-1811
'Uncle Tom' Staffordshire flatback, c.1852-1880
Anti-slavery jug, early 1800s
Anti-slavery mug, early 1800s
Pair of side tables, c.1791-1811
Anti-slavery bowl, early 1800s
Anti-slavery plaque, late 1700s - early 1800s
Anti-slavery inkstand, early 1800s
Anti-slavery mug, early 1800s
Anti-slavery sugar bowl, late 1700s-early 1800s
Pewter - Poor Man's Silver
Eva Crackles 1918-2007
Simply Samplers!
Portrait of Maureen Lipman
Collectors and Collections
An Exmoor Farm 1937-38
The Steam Paddle Tug "May" pulling out of Bridlington Harbour, 1890
Octavia, 1939
Martagon Lilies
A Summer Shower
Suicide in Costume II
Portrait of Esther
View of a Palace
The Man with the Muck Rake
Fans - Functional, Fashionable and Flirtatious
Portrait of Gertrude Kingston
Poppy (after John Hoppner's painting of Anna Isabella Milbanke)
Boulogne Sands - Children Shrimping
Reverie (Miss Lilian Montgomery)
The Good Samaritan
Marine (Sailing Ship on Beach)
Folding Time
Ship on a Beach by Moonlight
Vault
Red, Yellow, Blue
Interior - Girl Reading
Flirty Flapper Fashion
His First Grief, 1910
Portrait of Gwen Harter in a Red Bead Necklace, 1920s
The Red House
Coastline with Lighthouse
Nude - Portrait of Patricia Preece
Harry Cartlidge - Life Through a Lens
Somewhere in England
Needle and Thread
Painting, 1959
IDYLL, c.1931/2
24 pins, 13 pieces of paper and painted elements, 1974
Hyacinth, 1920
Truelove: From War to Whaler
Young Roman
Still Life with Red Apple
Green Apples
Hull from the Humber
Boats off Whitby
Coast Scene, Whitby
Two Cutters
Joseph Groves Boxhall - The Last Man Standing
Restrictive Fashion
Harlequin Design Candle Doubters
Singer sewing machine
Le Pavilion Bleu, 1926
Hull's One and Only Glass Company
Delphiniums and Roses
Wondering About Whaling?
Anna Isabella Milbanke (Lady Byron)
Roman Coins in Britain
Roman Coin Designs (part 1). Emperors, Empresses, Gods and Goddesses
Roman Coin Designs (part 2). Animals, The Army, Places and Buildings.
The Roman Mint
Workbox and Games Table by John Easten & Sons, Hull, c.1890-1900
Bedroom Chair by Richardson & Sons, Hull, 1871
Table by Gordon Russell, Hull, c.1950-1959
The 'Royal Chairs', made by Richardson & Sons, Hull, 1854
Rhinoceros wheelbarrow by Richardson & Sons
John Lee and his family
gallery test
'The Auld Man's Meir's Dead'
Portrait (V. Levchenya)
Wajid and Bobbyann
The Wilberforce Library
The Mitchell Collection of Costume
Madame Clapham: Hull's Celebrated Dressmaker
The Resurrection of Christ
Milton
Sir Walter Scott
Ghost Ship
Self-Portraits
Mother and Child
Harewood Castle Self Portrait
My Parents Kissing on their Bed, Salem, Massachusetts
Socrates
Woolly Mammoth - icon of the Ice Age (part 2)
Hull, Suffragettes and Art
Duff House #2; Duff House #5
Camouflage (Self-Portrait)
A Lady
Milton
Duke of Wellington
Room 77
Woolly Mammoth - icon of the Ice Age (part 1)
Sneezewort, Goat's Beard and Bog Bean
Richard Arkwright Junior
Naval vessels in a rough sea
Portrait of a lady
A Riverside Caprice
Whalers in the Arctic
The return of the 'William Lee' from Calcutta, entering the Humber Dock, Hull
The snow 'Chase' and the brig 'Dagger'
The wreck of the 'Thomas', off the Stony Binks, 8th June, 1821
The snow 'Rosetta' off Spurn Head
Still Life: The Pickwick Club, 1950s
The Last Purchase, 1921
The Wedding Dress, 1911
The Landlord, 1935
The Housekeeper's Room
A Badminton Court, 1926
Landscape, c.1900
Board Games - The Roll of Knucklebones and Dice Throughout History
John Lee and his family
Slipware Mug Made by Belle Vue Pottery, Hull c.1826-1841
Belle Vue hand painted tea cup
Mayor's Chair by Richardson & Sons, Hull (c.1863)
Hélène Cixous, 2003
Self Portrait Upside Down
Survival Kits: Shipwreck, plane crash and nuclear war
A Preface to the Transport Poster
Medieval Decorated Floor Tiles
The Transfiguration
Table by G.L. Feetam, Trinity House Lane, Hull, c.1860-1870
Chairs by G.L. Feetam, Trinity House Lane, Hull, 1860-1880
Washerwomen at the foot of the Torre delle Milizie
Portrait of William Constable
Jupiter and Ganymede
Coast Scene
The barque 'Andromeda' in two positions
Whalers in the Arctic
Westerdale's Yard and Savile Street, Hull and And Westerdale's Yard and the 'Wellington' from the New Dock
Grotto with statues and numerous figures worshipping an idol (St. Simeon Stylites)
The Supper at Emmaus
An east view of the bridge and New Dock at Kingston upon Hull and A west view of the bridge and New Dock at Kingston upon Hull
The Four Days Battle, 1666 (The Dutch ships with their prizes returning to Goeree after the battle)
The Fishdock Oiler
No’s 1,5,7,8 from the series ‘Alina’
Self Portrait as my Uncle Bryan Gregory
Lion and Globe of Hull
In a Bar, 1943
The War Worker, 1919
The Last Purchase, 1921
Self Portrait, 1911
The Last Beverley Pipe-maker, c.1903-10
Interior Study, c.1937
Plate Made by Belle Vue Pottery, Hull, c.1826-1841
Tea Set Made by Belle Vue Pottery, Hull c.1826-1841
Meat Platter Made by Belle Vue Pottery, Hull c.1826-1841
Needlework Panel
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sampler
Bronze Bust of Amy Johnson by Siegfried Joseph Charoux (c.1944)
'Woman and Child in Ladderback Chair' by Henry Moore (1952)
Nigerian Bronze Plaque (c.1550-1650)
Plymouth
Portrait of Mrs Dawson of Retford
Portrait of Mr Dawson of Retford with his servant
The Village Genius
St. Sebastian tended by the Holy Irene
A Zeeland States yacht Firing a Salute off the Oude Hoofdpoort, Rotterdam
Wooded landscape with cornfields
View of Leuvehaven, Rotterdam
Beach Scene with Figures
Landscape, peasants and houses
Portrait of a Lady of Elizabeth's Court
What You Will
Lady Holland
Portrait of John Kirby Picard Junior
Idealised portrait of Linnaeus
Holy Family
Holy Family with St. Simeon and St. John the Baptist
Holy Family with two female figures
Portrait of George Birkbeck
The paddle-steamers 'Monarch' and 'Packet'
The Ass
Les funerailles d'Atala'
Portrait of a lady
The East Indiaman 'General Coote' in three positions off the Downs
Interior of an artist's studio
The Apotheosis of Nelson
An Unknown Lady
A Bishop Saint
The steam-packets ‘Lion’ and ‘Calder’ of Selby off Goole
Windermere from Troutbeck
Cottages at Clappersgate near Ambleside
Portrait of Rebecca Feltham
Romantic Landscape
Portrait of Anna Isabella Milbanke (later Lady Byron)
Christ blessing the children
The dismissal of Hagar
A young woman
Faith
Portrait of Christopher Goulton of Beverley
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
A Father Reading the Bible to his Family
The Death of Dido
Still life in a garden
Portrait of William Wilberforce
A skirmish of cavalry
Westminster Bridge (Evening)
Somerset House (Morning)
Church Landscape
Signing on in a Hull Mercantile Marine Office
A Farm in Sussex
A Good Little Model
Miss Ivy Lilian Close
The Standidge Whaling Fleet
December
Still-Life with Antique Head
Back Yard, Park Avenue
Portrait of Lady Duveen
Newlyn
A Game of Patience
The Selkie
Force 8
Night Crossing
Nathanial Cholmley
Clarence Gardens
The Winged Faun
Odds and Ends
Still-Life
Still-Life with White Jar and Onions
Study of a Young Woman
Haystacks
Interior with Boiler
Untitled
Prince's Dock, Hull
Still Life in a Garden
Vanitas
Street Scene, Amsterdam
The Vacant Cradle
The Student - Madame Dolores Courtney
Portrait of Rebecca Feltham
Portrait of a man
Untitled
A Summer Shade
Portrait of a Young Girl
Hayfield
Sir Albert Kaye Rollit
Chestnut Horse in Stable
Derelict Lead Mine
Galway Harbour
Night IV
Dark Form on Yellow
Woodland Landscape
Portrait of a Lady
Lace Makers
The Auld Man’s Meir’s Dead
Mr. Great Heart
Lobster Boats
Fishing boats in a fresh breeze, evening
Coastal scene with beached vessels, evening
The Loss of a Merchantman
Dreaming Earth
The Ark
Poppy (after John Hoppner's painting of Anna Isabella Milbanke)
Canadian Girl
The Seated Woman
The Press Gang
My painting for myself
Beau Site (Margaret Morris the Dancer)
Head Tilting Forwards II
The Village Genius
St. Sebastian tended by the Holy Irene
A Zeeland States yacht Firing a Salute off the Oude Hoofdpoort, Rotterdam
Wooded landscape with cornfields
View of Leuvehaven, Rotterdam
Beach Scene with Figures
Landscape, February, Landscape, peasants, horse and cart
Portrait of a Lady of Elizabeth's Court
What You Will
Lady Holland
Portrait of John Kirby Picard Jnr
Idealised portrait of Linnaeus
Holy Family
Holy Family with St. Simeon and St. John the Baptist
Holy Family with two female figures
Portrait of George Birkbeck
Portrait of Mr Dawson of Retford with his servant
Portrait of Mrs Dawson of Retford
Portrait of George Fothergill
The Ten Holy Days
The Birth of the Virgin
The Birth of the Virgin
King Charles I at the gates of Hull
Landscape
Coast scene with a ruin
Portrait of the poet, the Reverend William Mason
Moonlight scene with a windmill
Moonlight scene
Shipping off Porchester Castle, Hampshire
Lakeside scene with cattle, Lakeside scene with a house
Memento Mori
Pastoral, shepherd and sheep
Portrait of a Philosopher
Grey of Evening
Portrait of Charles Salaman
Stubbs No. 2
Dutch family in an interior
Portrait of Maureen Lipman
North Cave, South Cave
The Glen Family of Hull
Self Portrait
The Bride
Triangular Motif
Blue Development III
Hull Docks with the barque 'Edward' and the snow 'William'
Blackwall, looking towards Greenwich
The brig 'Ruby', the barque 'Wanderer' and the snow 'Garnet' off Hull
The brig 'Wupper' off Spurn Head
H.M.S. Vindictive
The brig 'Wupper' off Spurn Head
Hull from the Humber (the buoy yacht 'Zephyr')
The brig 'Helen' off Hull
The paddle-steamer 'Forfarshire' leaving Hull for Dundee
The return of the 'William Lee' from Calcutta entering the Humber Dock, Hull
Stoneferry, Hull, with a sloop rigged keel
Ships on the Humber and the South Blockhouse
Landscape with a bird catcher
St. James the Greater
Still Waters
Snow Scene
The Satinwood Table
From Room to Room
Untitled
A Matinee Interval
Coast Defences (Seaford)
The Royal Dock, Grimsby
Permutation: Red and Blue
Top of the World
Cream Head Study
Woman at Table
Lizz in Repose
after Domenichino 1581-1641
A Sybil
Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist
Nice Donkey, Sir?
The Pillion
Autumn Burn
A wijdschip lowering sail in a choppy sea
Ritual Hill Series No. 6
Shipping off Hull
Believe Me, I Know Best
Italian landscape with a stone pine
Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen
Landscape with Waterfall
Portrait of Mary, Lady Barrington Bourchier
Curled Nude on a Stool
Magnetic Field
Sandspoor V
The Survival of Games - Hunt and Race Games
A woman
The Bay of Naples
The Hunchback Fiddler
Self-Portraits, 1986 - 1999
At the Wintergarten, Berlin
Loading a Timber Waggon in the Park of Cave Castle
Poppies
Farm Horses and Foal at a Ford
The Sisters
Red Wall
Portrait of Vincent Galloway
Flowers in a Black Vase
The Toilet
The Paddle Steamer 'Kingston of Hull' in the Humber Estuary
Amy, Wonderful Amy
Decay
Bounteous Sea
The Lettermen
Bandar
The Armed Trawler Paul Rykens
The Lion at Home
Coast Scene in Picardy
January
The Eel Catcher
By the Hills
The Approaching Footstep
The Night School
The Embroidered Cloak
Hollym Village, Holderness
Gathering on the Terrace at 47, Downshire Hill, Hampstead
Self Portrait
North Sea Incident
Maltese Women
Leaning Woman
A Spate in the Highlands
Noah, a Mystery
Sensitive Skin
The Artist's Mother
Romantic Landscape
Tremadoc
Cotswold River Scene
Street Scene, Funchal, Madeira
Quietly Dreaming of Spring
Colour Box II
Painting 1957
Sir George and Lady Strickland in the Grounds of Boynton Hall
The Son of a Saint
Self-Portrait
Portrait of a musician
Portrait of Hilda Downton
Ulysses and the Sirens
Portrait of Elizabeth Allhusen
The Orange Scarf
Poppies
Portrait of Douglas Dunn
Marine Harvest
Joseph Gee of Cottingham House, in the county of York
Elizabeth Jane Gee
These Shall Our Hearts Remember
Hilly Landscape
The Almond Tree
Portrait of the Artist
The Enchanted Valley
The Wedding Dress
Still Life - Vegetables
The Lettermen
Our Flag at Algeciras
An Algerian
Miss Isobel Dacre
Poppies
Still Life with Sassetta
Venice, The Grand Canal
These Shall Our Hearts Remember
Cutting out the Hermione
Self Portrait
A Wild Sunset
Venice, The Grand Canal
Discovery of the Staff
The Return from Inkerman
Portrait of Feroze Mehta
Sir George and Lady Strickland in the Grounds of Boynton Hall
The Lion at Home
Women and the Anti Slavery Campaign
NHS Diamond Anniversary - Happy 60th birthday!
Coca Cola Elephant
Meteorites - Hot Rocks From Space
Making the medicines
Danger in the Dispensary
The carboy
Collections
The Survival of Games - War Games
The Cartlidge Collection
Board games - Boards and Counters
Satin slippers, made in France, c.1838-1848
Samian Ware: From the pottery to the table
The Campaign Against Slavery
The Natural World
The Story of the Horkstow Mosaic
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778): Classifying Nature
The Discovery of the Hasholme Boat
Wilberforce Bible - Uncovering the Family Secrets
Wilberforce - The Man
William Wilberforce - the man (part 2)
Joseph & Elizabeth Jane Gee
The Brigg Logboat
Slavery Collections at Wilberforce House
William Wilberforce - the man (part 1)
William Wilberforce - the man (part 3)
The Wilberforce Monument
Conflict and the City
Takarabune and Seven Lucky Gods of Japan (part 2)
Silver Cod Trophy
History of Hull Museums (part 1)
Tudor Counter Table, c.1525-1550
The Scrimshanderer's Subjects
Enslavement and Plantation Life
Wilberforce House and Hull
Wilberforce House and Hull's High Street
Roman Brooches
Cecil Wright Mason (1884-1964)
Artistic Flair - Aesthetic Dress of the 1880s
Hull People
The Amy Johnson Cup for Courage by Edward Barnard & Sons, London, 1931
Amy Johnson (part 1)
Amy Johnson (part 2)
Home and Leisure Life
Contemporary Collections
Fizzy Pop and Water
Armchairs by John Easten & Sons, Hull, c.1867-1880
Billy, Charley and the Shadwell Forgeries
1940s Fashion - back to 'Civvie' Street
1940s Fashion - Utility scheme
1940s Fashion - Hard times for fashion
1940s Fashion - 'Keep young and beautiful'
Polar Bear - King of the Arctic
The Fussey Collection
The History of Valentine Day
The Lister silver flagons, London, 1640
The Lister Family
William Bradley, the 'Yorkshire Giant'
Silversmiths and Goldsmiths of Church Lane, Hull
Goldsmiths and Silversmiths of Hull
The Right to Vote Quiz
Henry's Gun
Events
History of the Hull & East Riding Museum
History of Hull Museums (part 2)
Untitled: Study of Ears 1980
A View of Barton Ferry
Our Natural World
Earth's Natural Palette (part 1)
Nature's Medicine Cabinet
Earth's Natural Palette (part 2)
Fossil Myths and Folklore (part 2)
Not Just Lumps of Stone
Pressed Plants and Flattened Flowers
Toothpaste to Toasters, Matches to Make-up (part 2)
The Archer
Ichthyosaurs - 'Fish Lizards'
The Brookes Ship Model and Poster
Celtic Gold
Drawing on Hull's Past - The F.S. Smith Collection (part 2)
Romans Through the Looking Glass: Roman Glassware
The Wilson Family
Hull and the Whaling Industry
What is scrimshaw?
What is a fossil?
Spineless Creatures (part 1)
Spineless Creatures (part 2)
Fossil Myths and Folklore (part 1)
Drawing on Hull's Past - The F.S. Smith Collection (part 1)
Can you spot the differences?
Plaster Casts
Hornsea 'Anglo-Saxon' Cemetery
Life and Death in the Mid 1900's: The story of Ivah Fenton
'The Gyppos' by Dame Laura Knight
The Forgotten Blitz
Hull Shipwrights' Union banner by Richard Dodd Widdas, Hull, 1885
Walrus Tusk Cribbage Board Made in Alaska by Angokwazhuk ('Happy Jack') c.1870-1918
Whale's Tooth Decorated by Edward Burdett, USA, c.1815-1833
Painted Whale's Earbone
Decorated Whale's Tooth, c.1808-1814
Whalebone Bench, c.1801-1900
Whalebone Garden Seat
Porter's chair by Richardson & Sons, Hull (1885)
Ship's figurehead, made in the UK, c.1876
Whalebone stay busk (scrimshaw)
Jug, probably made in Hull, c.1801-1900
Narwhal Tusk Coat Stand
Silver Box by James Phipps, London, 1779
Grace Darling Sunderland-ware jug
Ship's figurehead, made in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1827
Grace Darling Staffordshire flatback pottery figure, c.1838-1900
Decorated ostrich egg
Glass rolling pin, probably made in Newcastle, c.1764-1868
Pepperbox Barrelled Pistol by George Wallis Junior, Hull, c.1825
Duelling Pistol by George Wallis Junior, Hull, c.1804
Tutankhamun and Hull
The Tutankhamun Replicas
Egypt
Pondering about the Polar Bear?
Takarabune and Seven Lucky Gods of Japan (part 1)
Life on-board the Spurn Lightship
Come Rain or Shine - Historic Umbrellas and Parasols
Toothpaste to Toasters, Matches to Make-up (part 1)
Bronze Statuette of Sir Leo Schultz by Nigel Boonham (2006)
The Ferriby Boats - Europe's Oldest Seacraft
Fred Elwell's 'The Wedding Dress' Part 1
Moving the Wilberforce Monument in 1935
Kingston Pottery
Kingston Pottery - Character and Toby Jugs
Drag or Park Coach
Victoria
Brougham
Collections
Wilberforce and slavery
How we used to live
Collectors and Collections
Weird and wonderful
On the move
Hull and the sea
Behind the Scenes
Adopt a Painting - Lady in a Pink Dress
Adopt a Painting - Mountain Landscape with Figures
Adopt a Painting - Vertumnus and Pomona
Adopt a Painting - The Gossips, Lorraine
Dress by Madame Clapham, Hull, c.1894
Bowl Made in Ancient Egypt, Around 4500 Years Ago
Sophronia asking the Saracen King Aladine to release the Christian prisoners
Portrait of a young woman
Whaling
Vessels
I Promise to Abstain
The Russian Outrage : Under Attack
The Russian Outrage : The Aftermath
History of the Ferens Art Gallery (part 1)
History of the Ferens Art Gallery (part 2)
The Phoenix Project
William Wilberforce's Chair, Attributed to Thomas Chippendale (c.1753-1779)
T. R. Ferens (part 2)
Games are Prohibited Here!
Working Life
The Spurn Lightship and WW2
Reckitts of Hull
Soft drinks - bottled by design
All At Sea Part 1
All At Sea Part 2
The Ordinary Bicycle
The Hobby Horse Bicycle
Fred Elwell
Late 18th and early 19th British and European Landscapes
Dutch 17th Century Landscapes
Early 20th Century British Art - The Rise of Modernism
Early 20th Century British Art - Between the Wars
Early 20th Century British Art - Artists Groups
Purchasing for the People! Vincent Galloway Part 2
Purchasing for the People! Vincent Galloway Part 1
Chariots
Carriages and Coaches
Barouche
Landau
Cabriolet
Britzschka
Writing Desk and Bookcase by Mordecai Kitching, Hull, 1828
Bicycles
Cars
Coaches of the Nobility
The Dawn of Motoring
Overview of the Adopt a Painting scheme
A study of the Hasholme Boat
Thomas Sheppard
Brush Strokes
The Tutankhamun Replicas at Hull Museums
Harry Hudson Rodmell
The Captured Slave - Conservation of Original Frame
What's New
Conservation in preparation for First World War Centenary
Watercolour of River Hull Goes on Display
Inuit Parka Undergoes Conservation
James Johnson's Romantic Landscape Returns
William Constable (1721-1791)
Anlaby Road Wesleyan Church
Roll of Honour World War One
Roll of Honour: Ellerman's Wilson Line
Roll of Honour: Hull & Barnsley Railway
Roll of Honour: Hull & Barnsley Railway Supplementary List 1
Roll of Honour: Hull & Barnsley Railway Supplimentary List 2
Roll of Honour: Hull & Barnsley Railway Supplimentary List 3
Horse Brasses
Hasholme Boat
Buildings
Early Museums in Hull
Collectors
Votes for Women
Hull Seamen's General Orphanage
Hull & Women's Rights
The Captive Slave portrait returns from conservation
R38 Airship Disaster - New Addition to the Collections
Loans
What We Do With Objects
Hull & Barnsley Railway Albums
Fred Elwell's 'The Wedding Dress' Part 2
Lorenzetti - Early Renaissance Masterpiece
What We Collect
Costume and Fashion
Rembrandt Drawing
Woman Lying in a Darkened Room
What Does a Curator Do?
Managing the collections
Care and Conservation
1640 Charles I visits Hull
Egyptian votive textile, c.1500BC
The Discovery of the Ferriby Boats
Anti-slavery medallion by Wedgwood, Stoke-on-Trent, c.1790-1799
William Wilberforce's coat, c.1780-1800
Drake's Island, Plymouth Sound
Plymouth Coast from Plymouth Sound
Plymouth Sound, Looking Towards Coastline
View Across Plymouth Sound from Barbican
Plymouth Sound ? Unknown View
Old Jetty under the Citadel, Plymouth, or near Sutton Pool
Belle Vue 'Garden Scenery' platter
Belle Vue transfer printed tea cup
Slipware Cup Made by Belle Vue Pottery, Hull, c.1826-1841
Seaman's tidy box, possibly made in Hull, c.1838
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How we used to live

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Hull has a very rich and varied history. It has developed over the centuries from a small walled town to a bustling city, and has seen many major historical events that have shaped its history and the lives of the people who lived here. The stories here explore the way we used to live - what clothes we wore, where we used to work and how our lives were affected by wider conflicts and events. It also looks at the lives of famous local born people, their achievements and how they contributed to the City's interesting past.