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  1891
  • Exhibition of paintings in the University Galleries
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    1895
  • Exhibition of Rembrandt etchings in the University Galleries
  • William Turner of Oxford
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    1897
  • Maiolica and enamelled earthenware of Italy
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    1928
  • Silver plate belonging to Oxford Colleges
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    1929
  • Sidney William Carline
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    1939
  • Younger British Painters
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    1940
  • Contemporary British Drawings (May-August)
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    1941
  • Modern British Paintings
  • Euston Road Group (May-July)
  • Contemporary Art Society (October-December)
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    1942
  • Exhibition by Slade and Ruskin Schools
  • (Also November 1943 & November 1944)
  • Selection from Tate Gallery Wartime exhibitions
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    1943
  • Civil Defence Artists (September)
  • British Landscapes from George II - Victoria (9-31 October)
  • Contemporary paintings and drawings (6-27 March)
  • Paul Nash (12-28 April)
  • Poster Design in Wartime Britain (8-29 May)
  • Oxford Art Society 50th Exhib (4 June - 3 July)
  • Work by Living Scottish Artists (24 July - 14 August)
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    1944
  • Childrens paintings (22 February - 21 March)
  • Contemporary Sculpture (30 March - 30 April)
  • British narrative paintings from Tate Gallery - Regency - 20th century (15 May - 5 June)
  • Paintings by Firemen Artists (15-30 June)
  • Dous of the Nations (7 July - 9 September)
  • Miniature Theatre Exhibition (15 September)
  • Old Decorative Maps and Charts (5 December)
  • The Glasgow School (December)
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    1950
  • Drawings in the MV Braikevitch Bequest (August-September)
  • Visitors and Staff Paintings from Ruskin (17-18 November)
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    1951
  • Seventeenth Century Plate
  • Harold Cohen (19 November - 1 December)
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    1954
  • Pissarro (2-22 May)
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    1955
  • Curt Hermann (1854-1929)
  • Exhibition of Watercolours by HM Cashell (July)
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    1956
  • Deuctional Pèrchres 1460-1950 (March)
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    1958
  • Memorial exhibition of pictures and drawings by Leonard Pasternak 1862-1945
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    1962
  • Henry Moore
  • Francis Falconer Madan
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    1963
  • The Artist and the book in France (11-25 May)
  • Pissarro 1863-1944 (July)
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    1964
  • Egerton Bushe Coopill 1853-1921: an Irish Impressionist (May)
  • Percy Horton Retrospective (June-July)
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    1965
  • Centenary Exhibition of paintings, drawings and lithographs by Robert Bevan 1865-1925 (April-May)
  • Georges van Houlen 1888-1964 (October-November)
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    1966
  • Malcolm Milne Retrospective (June-July)
  • British Bird Painting (24-31 July)
  • Exhibition of etchings by Friedrich Landseer
  • Griggs and some of his contemporaries (1-23 October)
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    1967
  • Drawings by English Sculptors 1680-1810 (November-December)
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    1968
  • Graphic Art Illustrating Slade Lectures
  • Claude Lovat Fraser (2-23 May)
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    1969
  • Brake Baldwin 1885-1915 (4-25 January)
  • Orovida (February)
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    1969-70
  • Ruskin School Annual Student Exhibition
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    1970
  • Drawings of Italy by James Gibbs ?801-70 (October)
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    1971
  • Sidney Nolan (April-May)
  • Medieval Middle Eastern pottery
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    1972
  • Anna Ticho (April-May)
  • Half century of Heberdean Coin Room
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    1973
  • Centenary exhibition of Eleanor Fortesque-Brickdale (1 December- 7 January)
  • French and English Prints 1840-1940 (December)
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    1974
  • The World of Edward Bawden (January-February)
  • Ursula Pyrwhitt 1872-1966 (October-November)
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    1975
  • Bevan gift of paintings and drawings by the Camden Town Group (April)
  • Dutch pictures in Oxford (May-July)
  • The Prints of Martin Hardie
  • Mstislau v Dobiyinsky centenary exhibition (Ocober-December)
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    1975-1976
  • Maurice Sendak (December-February)
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    1976
  • Centenary exhibition of etchings and drawings by FL Griggs (March-May)
  • Engraved glass by Lawrence Whistler (June-August)
  • Drawings by Tolkien (December 1976 - February 1977)
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    1977
  • Selection of drawings by Nazarenes and their Associates (5 January - 27 March)
  • Geoffrey Rhoades Retrospective (March-May)
  • Arthur Segal: a collection of woodcuts (10 May - 3 July)
  • Four Contemporary Scottish Painters (15 September - 30 October)
  • Wenceslaus Hollar in England: tercentenary (October-November)
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    1978
  • John Newberry (January)
  • Mary Wodal (April)
  • Finger Rings (5 August - 17 September)
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    1979
  • Six Centuries of an Oxford College (May)
  • Blandford and Rosamund Fletcher (May)
  • Glass exhibition (September-October)
  • Erwin Bossanyi (September-October)
  • Sculpture and Construction (3 November - 17 December)
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    1980
  • Robert Austin 1895-1978 (16 February - 16 March)
  • Marcelle Quinton (March-April)
  • Archival exhibition of Pissarro (November-January)
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    1981
  • Turner and the Bible (January-March)
  • Robin Tanner (17 January - 22 February)
  • The most beautiful statues (16 March - 10 May)
  • Eastern Ceramics (July-September)
  • Stanley William Hayter on his 80th birthday (October)
  • Percyval Tudor Hart 1873-1954 (November)
  • George Mackley (14 November 1981 - 3 January 1982)
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    1982
  • British pictorial bookplates
  • William Blake to David Hockney (February-March)
  • Sculptures of our time (April 14 - 23 May)
  • Recent Australian Prints (October-November)
  • Innovations in contemporary print-making (23 October - 21 November)
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    1983
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Raphael (1483-1520) (11 January - 6 March)
  • Dürer to Cézanne (9 March - 10 April)
  • Elias Ashmole (1617-1692)
  • Oxford University and College Portraits since 1945 (10 August - 23 October)
  • Purchases and gifts of the Friends of the Ashmolean 1969-1983 (18 October - 31 December)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • A tribute to James Byam Shaw for his 80th Birthday (11 January - 27 February)
  • Etchings by Jacques Callot (1592-3-1635) and Stefano Della Bella (1610-64) (1 March - 24 April)
  • 20th century Portrait Drawings (3 August - 4 September)
  • British Wood Engraving since 1920: recent accessions (10 September - 16 October)
  • Print and drawings presented by Francis Douce and Chambers Hall (19 October - 27 November)
  • Three 20th century Keepers: CF Bell, KM Clark and KT Parker; Drawings (30 November 1983 - 15 January 1984)
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    1984
    Eldon Gallery
  • Old Master Drawings: Italian 16th century (17 January - 11 March)
  • Old Master Drawings: Northern Schools 17th century (13 March - 6 May)
  • Old Master Drawings: Italian 17th century (8 May - 16 September)
  • Top of the Pops (3 July - 16 September)
    • McAlpine Gallery
  • Unbuilt Oxford (11 January - 6 March)
  • Shells (15 March - 6 May)
  • Tess Jaray (17 May - 15 July)
  • Watteau (25 July - 9 September)
  • Image as Catalyst: The Younger Generation of British figurative painters (30 October - 9 December)
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    1985
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Acquisition and Conservation under the Keepership of Kenneth Garlick 1968-1984 (13 December 1984 - 24 February 1985)
  • Modern British Drawings from the Whitworth Art Gallery (5 March - 26 April)
  • Laurence Whistler (1 May - 30 June)
  • David Wilkie (10 July - 25 August)
  • Richard Shirley Smith (4 September - 3 November)
  • Arundel (14 November 1985 - 12 January 1986)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • John Ruskin (6 November - 6 January 1985)
  • Chiaroscuro and colour woodcuts (8 January - 10 February)
  • Studies for Italian Renaissance Altarpieces (12 February - 31 March)
  • Watercolours by JMW Turner (2 April - 26 May)
  • 18th century Italian drawings (28 Mary - 23 June)
  • Masterpieces from the Dept of Prints and Drawings (25 June - 25 August)
  • Engravings by Richard Shirley Smith (4 September - 3 November)
  • Raphael and Dürer (5 November 1985 - 5 January 1986)
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    1986
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Jonathan Kingdom (28 January - 2 March)
  • Impressionist drawings (11 March - 20 April)
  • Guercino drawings (29 April - 22 June)
  • Portrait drawings by Hensel (1 July - 24 August)
  • Byam Shaw (2 September - 26 October)
  • Elizabeth Williams (2 November - early 1987)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • English Watercolours (28 January - 2 March)
  • Impressionist drawings (11 March - 20 April)
  • Guercino drawings (29 April - 22 June)
  • Old Master drawings (24 June - 2 September)
  • John Farleigh (10 September - 19 October)
  • Bensusan Butt and Lucien Pissarro (21 October - December)
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    1987
    McAlpine Gallery
  • The Christopher Hewett Collection (20 January - 1 March)
  • Insects and Art (10 March - 17 April)
  • Ancient and Modern: McAlpine Collection (5 May - 2 August)
  • German Drawings of the 19th century (10 September - 18 October)
  • David Levine (27 October - 3 January 1988)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Livres d'Artiste: Collection of WJ Strachen (20 January - 1 March)
  • Distortion and Refinement: 16th century drawings and prints (3 March - 31 May)
  • Masterpieces of European Drawing (2 June - 16 August)
  • Claughton Pellew (1890-1966) (16 September - 22 November)
  • Molly Freeman: Artist and Collector (25 November - 3 January)
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    1988/1989
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Paul Eachus and John Goto (12 January - 28 February)
  • Old Master Drawings (Holkham Hall) (1 March - 24 April)
  • Lucien Freud (3 May - 12 June)
  • Sculpture by Alfred and Winifred Turner (21 June - 2 October)
  • SW Hayter (11 October - 27 November)
  • A Century of Silver (6 December 1988 - 29 January 1989)
  • Anthony Gross: Paintings and Prints (14 February - 16 April)
  • The France of the Pissarros (25 April - 11 June)
  • Pre-Raphaelites (16 June - 10 September)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Lucien Freud (3 May - 12 June)
  • 17th century French Drawings (21 June - 2 October)
  • Renaissance of Gravure: SW Hayter (11 October - 27 November)
  • Dürer: Prints and Drawings (29 November 1988 - 12 February 1989)
  • Anthony Gross (14 February - 16 April)
  • Watercolours by JMW Turner (18 April - 4 June)
  • Drawings by John Ruskin (6 June - 10 September)
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    1990
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Showcase: a celebration of Oxfordshire Museums and their collections (2 December - 14 January 1990)
  • Twentieth Century Russian Watercolours and Drawings (12 June - 5 August)
  • Drama in Colour: The Dramatic Paintings of Hugh Bulley (23 October - 25 November)
  • Italy by Moonlight: The night in Italian painting 1550-1850 (25 October - 16 December)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings (Late November - 14 January)
  • Drawings by Leonid Pasternak (1890-1945) (12 June - 9 August)
  • John Buckland Wrigt 1897-1954 (23 October - 2 December)
  • A Loan exhibition of drawings by Nicholas Poussin from British Collections (4 December 1990 - 17 February 1991)
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    1991
    McAlpine Gallery
  • The Camden Town Group (7 May - 7 September)
  • The Flora of Louisiana: Watercolour drawings by Margaret Stones (12 September - 27 October)
  • Paintings for Pater by Karen Forsyth (29 Oct 1991 - 9 February 1992)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Rossetti's Portraits of Elizabeth Siddal (5 March - 28 April)
  • Max Beerbohm (7 May - 8 September)
  • Fifteenth-century German Line-Engravings and Dotted Prints (12 September - 31 October)
  • Edgar Holloway (5 November 1991 - 9 February 1992)
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    1992
    McAlpine Gallery
  • The Art of Laughter (18 February - 24 May)
  • John Piper: The Robert and Rena Lewin Gift to the Ashmolean Museum (2 June - 9 August )
  • Russian panoramas from the Talbot Collection (Early August - Early October)
  • Indian Paintings from the Howard Hodgkin Collection (20 October 1992 - 7 February 1993)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Grotesques and Grimaces (18 February - 24 May)
  • From Gericault to Bonnard: Prints from the Maxwell Webb Collection (2 June - 9 August)
  • Clare Leighton (20 October 1992 - 31 January 1993)
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    1993
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Panoramic Views of St Petersburg from 1716-1835 (16 February - 9 May)
  • Shadow of the Forest: Prints of the Barbizon School (25 May - 18 July)
  • Gravure and Grace: The engravings of Roger Vieillard (26 October 1993 - 16 January 1994)
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    Eldon Gallery
  • Eighteen Old Master Drawings from the Collection at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (5-31 January)
  • The Art of Orovida: Prints, drawings and paintings from the Pissarro Collection (2 February - 28 March)
  • Rembrandt Etchings and Drypoints (6 April - 18 July)
  • Robin Tanner (1904-1988) Teacher and Etcher, Heather Tanner (1903-1993) Author (July)
  • Monica Poole Wood Engraver (26 October 1993 - 31 January 1994)
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    1994
    Gordon Childe Room
  • 20th-century British Studio Pottery: The collection of an Oxford graduate (14 April - 14 August)
  • The Vitruvian Path: Early Printed Books from the Library of the Department of the History of Art (1 September - 31 December)
    • McAlpine Gallery
  • Roger Wagner Paintings 1982 -1994 (25 January - 27 March )
  • Valerie Thornton R.E. 1931-1991 (25 October 1994 - 19 February 1995)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • The Director's Choice: Netherlandish drawings from the 15th to the 17th century (25 January - 27 March)
  • Drawings by Contemporaries of Voltaire: Eighteenth-century French drawings from the Print Room of the Ashmolean (30 August - 27 November)
  • Twentieth-century Drawings: Recent acquisitions (29 November 1994 - 19 February 1995)
  • Pre-Raphaelite drawings from the Ashmolean Collections
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    1995
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Pictures from the Reserve Collection (28 February - 14 May)
  • Wood Engraving here and now (23 May - 6 August)
  • Dutch and Flemish Drawings from Windsor Castle (15 August - 15 October)
  • French Drawings from the Prat Collection (24 October - 17 December)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Drawings by Edward Lear (21 February - 14 May)
  • Sir Karl Parker (1895-1992) A Centenary Celebration (16 May - 24 September)
  • Gertrude Hermes and Blair Hughes-Stanton (10 October - 11 February 1996)
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    1996
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Helen Saunders 1885-1963 (9 January - 3 March)
  • Drawings for the Ashmolean building by CR Cockerell (12 March - 12 May)
  • Ruskin and Oxford (21 May - 15 September)
  • Chinese Paintings from the Reyes Collection (24 September - 1 December)
  • Drawings by the Carracci from British collections (10 December - 31 March 1997)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Ornament drawings of the 16th century (13 February - 12 May)
  • Techniques of Drawing (17 September - 1 December)
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    1997
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Pastels (8 April - 11 May)
  • Acquisitions 1985-997 (20 May - 13 July)
  • Portrait Prints from the Hope Collection (30 September - 18 January 1998)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Life Drawing (8 April - 6 July)
  • Early Netherlandish Engraving c.1430-1540 (8 July - 28 September)
  • Samuel Palmer (9 December - 15 February 1998)
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    1998
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Hawkesmoor and the Re-planning of Oxford (27 January - 12 April)
  • L.N. Cottingham: Architect of the Gothic Revival (21 April - 21 June)
  • Drawings by Claude Lorrain (30 June - 13 September)
  • Malchair and the Oxford School (22 September - 13 December)
  • The Painterly Brush: Oil Sketches from the Ashmolean Museum (22 December 1998 - 21 March 1999)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Drawings from the Grete Ring Bequest (17 February - 19 April)
  • Illustrators of the 1860s: The Forrest Reid Collection of Victorian Book Illustraion (21 April - 21 June)
  • Anne Desmet: Towers and Transformations: a retrospective exhibition (15 September - 13 December)
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    1999
    McAlpine Gallery
  • From Cozens to Palmer: Exhibition Watercolours from the Ashmolean Museum (30 March - 13 June)
  • Paintings by Leonid Pasternak (21 June - 22 August)
  • No Day Without a Line: The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers 1880-1999 (31 August - 31 October)
  • Dutch Genre Paintings from the Mauritshuis (9 November - 9 January 2000)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Nineteenth-century French Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum (5 January - 28 February)
  • Recent Acquisitions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British Drawings and Watercolours (2 March - 30 May)
  • The Prophetic Vision (8 June - 15 August)
  • Techniques of Printmaking (31 August - 31 October)
  • F.L. Griggs (1876-1938): The Architecture of Dreams (2 November - 9 January 2000)
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    2000
    McAlpine Gallery
  • Severini (18 January - 5 March)
  • Francis Ernest Jackson (1872-1945) and his School (21 March - 4 June)
  • Turner's Oxford (20 June - 1 September)
  • Ruskin Portraits (21 November 2000 - 21 January 2001)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Eighteenth-century Venetian Drawings (14 March - 4 June)
  • British Townscapes (20 June - 10 September)
  • Edward Ardizzone (19 September - 19 November)
  • Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination (21 November - 21 January 2001)
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    2001
    McAlpine Gallery
  • About Time (6 February - 1 April)
  • Jules Flandrin: The Other Fin de Siecle (17 April - 24 June)
  • Ana Maria Pacheco: Dark Night of the Soul (5 July - 27 August)
  • Brazilian Baroque (25 October - 3 February 2002)
    • Eldon Gallery
  • Sculptors' Drawings (6 February - 20 May)
  • Photography of Brazil (25 October - 3 February 2002)
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      2002
      McAlpine Gallery
  • The Age of the Carracci: 17th century Bolognese Drawings from the
    Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (6 March - 26 May)
  • Illustrators of the Radio Times (12 June - 7 September)
  • Travelling Companions - Hals and Manet (2 October - 24 November)
    •   Eldon Gallery
  • Drawings from a North Oxfordshire private collection (4 June - 18 August)
  • From Alfie to Dogger - The Work of Shirley Hughes (18 September -
    26 January 2003)
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      2003
      McAlpine Gallery
  • Contemporary Prints (19 February - 23 March)
  • Spectacular Impressions: a display of Old Master Prints (16 April - 14 September)
  • Graceful and True: Drawing in Florence around 1600 (15 October - 18 January 2004)
    •   Eldon Gallery
  • Old Master Prints from the Ashmolean Collection (16 April - 1 October)
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      2004
      McAlpine Gallery
  • The Legacy of Samuel Palmer: Paul Drury, Graham Sutherland and the Pastoral Print (11 February- 23 May)
  • A Treasured Inheritance: 600 years of Oxford College Silver (16 June - 19 September)
  • The Pissarro Family at Home (13 October - 9 January 2005)
    •   Eldon Gallery
  • Curious Works: English 16th & 17th century Embroideries (14 January - 28 March)
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