Hello friends! The next few posts will be about places I visited during reading week: London, the Lake District, and Cambridge. I started my trip with a day and a half in London. I planned to go to the Lake District, and it was simpler to get the train from London Euston. This time, I wanted to visit Tate Britain to see their collection of original Pre-Raphaelite works in person. I walked past many famous sites on the way to the art museum. I hadn't booked a place anywhere, but walking is free!
Long queue at The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
Sunny day!
Scotland Yard, I think?
Big Ben
A Distant Westminster Abbey
At Tate Britain I spent time in the Pre-Raphaelite room and in the neighbouring gallery with the larger-sized works. There are no ropes or barriers, so a near-sighted person like me can stand inches from them! Art on display included:
Ophelia,
Christ in the House of His Parents, and
The Veil of Rest by John Everett Millais;
Jesus Washing Peter's Feet by Ford Madox Brown;
The Awakening Conscience,
Claudio and Isabella, and
Our English Coasts by William Holman Hunt;
Sancta Lilias and
Rosa Triplex by Dante Gabriel Rossetti;
Frieze of Eight Women Gathering Apples,
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, and
The Golden Stairs by Edward Burne-Jones;
The Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born and
The Death of Chatterton by Henry Wallis;
Past and Present, No. 1 by Augusts Leopold Egg; photography by Julia Margaret Cameron;
Figure of Guinevere by William Morris; and a honeysuckle embroidery done by Jane Morris, William Morris, and Jenny Morris.
Tate Britain
A little context
Original original Millais!
More Millais
Ford Madox Brown
Rossetti
Burne-Jones
Cameron and Morris
Textile worked by Morris, his wife, Jane, and daughter, Jenny
After the museum, I headed towards Hyde Park. I decided to walk through Kensington Gardens to see the Peter Pan statue.
Buckingham Palace
Wellington Arch
Hyde Park
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
The next morning I had enough time to visit the British Library and get some reading in before catching my train. I arrived around opening time and waited in this queue to get inside! I hadn't made a reservation in any of the reading rooms, but looked at the treasures and read a book (from a different library!) that I had with me.
Queueing at the British Library
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