Posts Tagged With: drawings

The Weston Library, Oxford

The Weston Library is part of the Bodleian Libraries and is where you go to book on the day tours – many areas of the Bodleian can only be accessed by members of the public via official tours (I’ll talk more about the process of booking in a later post where I talk about the tours I went on). It is also an exhibition space which had three free exhibitions on when I visited.

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Nottingham Castle: The Leonardo da Vinci Drawings

Please note photos have been removed due to lack of hosting space. 

Nottingham Castle is currently displaying (until 9 October) 10 of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, on loan from the Royal Collection. The drawings take in many of Leonardo’s eclectic interests spanning anatomy, botany and engineering and were done in pen and ink, chalk and watercolours.

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