Monday, April 19, 2010

A trip to the British Museum with some rare coins.











An insightful trip to the British Museum with learned artist mates, took place last week. We covered the new Medieval Europe gallery in room 40.
A brush pen isn’t the ideal vehicle for sketching however, it’s all I could find in my handbag at the time. Here are some wee sketches from the day trip. After two hours of sight seeing, we wound up at the London Review Bookshop for some wild tonics and cake but our intrigue did not stop there, afterwards we thumbed through some wonderful illustrated first folio editions.

3 comments:

The Surreal McCoy said...

Rare indeed!

Celeste Goulding said...

What are the rare coins made of?

Frank Zweegers said...

Strange coins :) I have never seen such examples. When were they used?