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Issue 16 – June 2020

An oval shaped cartouche and text incised on a metallic surface. In the cartouche, four men carry a casket on their shoulders as they walk towards an open grave surrounded by skulls and bones. Another foursome follows behind them. — Tankard engraved with scenes of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London (dithered detail), 1675–1676, silver, 19.1 × 23.5 × 15.2 cm, 1170.995g. Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1987.54). Digital image courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Morgan, 1986 (public domain).

EDITORIAL

Editorial

British Art Studies Editorial Group

CONVERSATION PIECE

Luxury and Crisis: Redefining the British Decorative Arts

Convened by Iris Moon

ARTICLE

“The Bold Adventure of All”: Reconstructing the Place of Portraits in Interregnum England

By Helen Pierce

ARTICLE

The Social Economics of Artistic Labour: A Technical Case Study of Henry Monro’s Disgrace of Wolsey (1814)

By Anna Cooper
and Martin Myrone

CURATORIAL ESSAY

Bill Brandt: Photography and the Printed Page

By Martina Droth
and Paul Messier
Robert Hixon
with photography by Richard Caspole

ONE OBJECT

New Approaches to St Stephen’s Chapel, Palace of Westminster

By Tim Ayers
and John Cooper

ONE OBJECT

Virtual St Stephen’s: The Medieval Model and the Art Historian

By Tim Ayers

ONE OBJECT

Mapping the Unknown: Using Incomplete Evidence to Craft Digital Three-Dimensional Models of St Stephen’s

By Anthony Masinton
and James Jago

ONE OBJECT

The Wall Paintings at St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster Palace: Recent Imaging and Scientific Analysis of the Fragments in the British Museum

By Helen Howard
and Lloyd de Beer
David Saunders
Catherine Higgitt