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They can't come out too often but when they do the reaction is always - wow! Yes we're talking about the Burne-Jones tapestries! Quest for the Holy Grail Tapestries - The Failure of Sir Gawaine.

I wonder if Sir Gawaine would have faired better if he had gone in search of eggs?

It is wonderful to see what has been digitised by our collection team, I think #PreRaphaelite fans will enjoy this one! It is the drapery study for Desdemona's Death Song (the Willow Song) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, dating from c.1879-81.
https://t.co/7WJZJ2lWqh
#OpenGLAM

New on our online image resource! A #WW2 photo album containing approx 50 black & white photographs of the Vickers-Armstrong Castle Bromwich Aeroplane Factory, and other factories across the country.
@Brumpic
https://t.co/Ar27BvZdyN

William Blake was born #onthisday 28 Nov 1757. @BM_AG has 6 watercolours from Blake's series of designs for illustrations to Dante's 'Divine Comedy'.
The Circle of the Lustful, 1824-27
The Baffled Devils Fighting, 1824-27
The Mission of Virgil, 1824-27
The Recording Angel 1824-27

Did you know, we have a lot of ceramics by William de Morgan in our collection, many of which are on display in the Industrial Gallery Balcony. RU

Happy birthday to Walter Crane who was born #onthisday 15 August 1845. A Herald of Spring, 1872.

You can't have Easter without an egg! In this case, Augustus Leopold Egg, who painted the wonderful The Travelling Companions in 1862. See it in the Round Room @BM_AG when you visit!

Garrick, Ackman and Bransby in a Scene from Lethe by Johann Zoffany (1733–1810), shared for #ActorsDay!

Don't be put off by the fencing, we are open! Follow detour around Council House for Pre-Raphaelites, Staffordshire Hoard, #IWantIWant etc!

Wonderful #BooksMW images by Edward Burne-Jones, from The Flower Book, 1905. #MuseumWeek #PreRaphaelites