A Plan of a Triumphal Memorial....at Holyhead in honour of the visit of His Majesty George IV to the Principality of Wales on the 7th of August, 1821 by Thomas Harrison Esq. Architect

Augostino Aglio, the elder

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A ceremonial memorial gateway built at Holyhead, of Anglesey, Wales, in 1822-24, to commemorate a visit made by George IV in 1821.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art