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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
Convened by Iris Moon
ARTICLE
“The Bold Adventure of All”
By Helen Pierce
ARTICLE
The Social Economics of Artistic Labour
By Anna Cooper
and Martin Myrone
CURATORIAL ESSAY
Bill Brandt
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
By Tim Ayers
ONE OBJECT
Mapping the Unknown
By Anthony Masinton
and James Jago
ONE OBJECT
The Wall Paintings at St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster Palace
By Helen Howard
and Lloyd de Beer
David Saunders
Catherine Higgitt