Dissolution of the monasteries 1540 posters & prints

Abbey gatehouse, Cerne Abbas, Dorset E Bastard

Tynemouth Priory, Northumberland National Maritime Museum

Fire-bell Gate (and curfew), Barking, Essex Anonymous

Inside of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire JMW Turner

Ruins of the south transept, Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, City of London Anonymous

Ruins of the south transept, Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, City of London Anonymous

Hexham Abbey Anonymous

Virgin and Child Master of the Female Half Figures

Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire John Bell

Maximilian Presented by His Patron Saints to the Almighty, 1519 Hans Springinklee

Susanna and The Elders. Flanders, Belgium, 16th century Unknown

The Frantic Footman, who has had Warning Anonymous

The Dissolute Household Pieter Balten

Bathos, Manner of Sinking, in Sublime Paintings inscribed to the Dealers in Dark Pictures, 1764 William Hogarth

Childbirth bowl Francesco Xanto Avelli

Letter from James II to his brother-in-law, Lawrence Hyde James II

Venus Lucas the Elder Cranach

The Emperor Maximilian Presented by His Patron Saints to the Almighty, 1519 Hans Springinklee

The Ardabil Carpet, detail. Iran, mid-16th century Anonymous