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In 1770 Shafonsky’s work on disease control and prevention was at the heart of the bubonic plague outbreak in Moscow and he was instrumental in
2020 has seen an exciting period of expansion for Shapero Rare Books and Shapero Gallery, moving into two vast new spaces on New Bond Street,
James Joyce was a writer born in Dublin in 1882. This Irishman was the author (/writer?) who revolutionated the literature with his particular sight (point
An epistolary history of postwar American art through the mind of Peter Saul. Painter Peter Saul (born 1934), considered one of the founding fathers of
What happens when the past – or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage – is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the
![JONES (DAVID), Series of one hundred and twenty-six letters signed Northwick Lodge, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Monks Dene Residential Hotel, 2 Northwick Park Road, Harrow and Calvary Nursing Home, Sudbury ("Sodbury") Hill, Harrow, [mostly dated in Welsh], 4 February 1959 to 27 July 1974. Estimate: £30,000-50,000](https://cdn.martincid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/JONES-DAVID-Series-of-one-hundred-and-twenty-six-letters-Estimate_-30000-50000-scaled.jpeg)
The Welsh painter and poet David Jones rarely found life easy. As he wrote to his great friend Valerie Wynne-Williams, ‘When people say they paint for ‘pleasure’ I
TRUMAN CAPOTE’S FINAL TYPESCRIPT FOR BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S SELLS FOR £377,000 AT SOTHEBY’S Covered in hundreds of the author’s handwritten edits Including the last minute
OSCAR WILDE’S “CONFESSIONS OF TASTES HABITS AND CONVICTIONS” Sotheby’s to offer questionnaire filled in by the young writer on the cusp of stardom in 1877
Walton Ford’s large-scale watercolors of animals make up a unique anthropomorphic universe rich in sly jokes and hidden meaning. The most comprehensive survey of the
Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to relaunch the Emerging Writers Program, an initiative focused on facilitating professional development for early practice arts writers committed to pursuing
