 This exhibition includes 97 kimono created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – one of the most dynamic periods in the history of Japan’s national costume. It includes formal, semi-formal, and casual kimono, haori jackets, and undergarments worn by men, women, and children.
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This exhibition showcases 60 extraordinary paintings illustrating some of the highest achievements in figurative and landscape art of the 19th century. Acquired by Thomas Holloway to enhance the women’s college he had founded in 1879, the collection includes many of the most visible and praised “modern canvasses” in London in the 1880s. 
Fernando Botero (b. 1932) is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman who depicts the comedy of human life -- moving or wry, baroque in expression, sometimes with a mocking observation, sometimes with a deep, elementary emotion ... 