History & The Arts
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
...care of the British Museum. The British Museum’s Report and Accounts notes the arrival of related objects: Japan featured prominently in the year’s acquisitions. A fine impression of Hokusai’s celebrated The Great Wave (1830–3) was acquired with support from The Art Fund. A group of 19th-century netsuke, accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax, was...