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A steam hammer at work

1871

Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1996-1999

Harford Bridge

1880

Concentration

1991-1993

Three Surgeons and Theatre Lights

1991-1993

North Sea Coastal Convoy 1917 - RNAS Blimp

1979

Piccadilly Circus

1950-1959

Burning Off a Ship, painting

1957-1962

Good Government

1964

St Augustine in his Cell

1964

File Cutters

1917

The Results of Labour

1930-1939

Forging Files

1918

One of the Machine Shops

1918

Coiling and Setting Springs

1918

Humber Cycles from £16/15/0 cash

1910-1953

Threaded needle holders

1991

Surgeons' Hands

1991-1993

First Impressions

1990-1994

Stephen Westaby, Cardiothoracic Surgeon

1991-1993

Science, Fruit of Knowledge

1994

Liver Transplant

1988

Miracle of King Hezekiah

1964

Workers in a Machine Tool Shop

1940-1949

Free parachute descent

1888-1898

Markham's Ponies

1928

Rolling Billets

1917

The Horologist, John Elcomb

1996-1999

Cardiothoracic Surgery

1991-1993

In the X-ray Unit

1991-1994

Stockton & Darlington Railway 2-2-2 locomotive no. 52 Comet

circa 1841
Charcoal sketch. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, 1997, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum. This preliminary sketch depicts a similar view to the final oil painting with the Director seated working in his office.

Sketch of Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1997
Painting. Mining, Farming and Industry, by R. Henderson Blyth [c1950?]. Oil on board, 46x92.5cmin frame 55x101.5x3cm. Signed verso. Montage of industrial scenes; perhaps a design prelude to a mural?

Mining, Farming and Industry

1945-1955
Painting. David Westaby examining X-rays, Endoscopy Unit, Charing Cross Hospital London, by Keith Holmes, 1991-93. Oil on board; image 45x60cm in frame, 53.5x68.5x3cm.

David Westaby examining X-rays

1991-1993
Charcoal sketch. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, 1997, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum. This preliminary sketch is a view of the Director’s head and shoulders as he talks on the telephone.

Sketch of Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1997
Painting. Sir Neil Cossons OBE, by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum, 1994 to 1996, completed 1999. Oil on board; image 102x121cm in frame by artist, 107x125x3.5cm. Left hand panel of a triptych about the Science Museum: looking at curatorship. The Director is seated working in his office, a modern manager using communications technologies. Behind him looking over his shoulder, a Parianware bust of Albert Prince Consort [by Brown-Westhead Moore Co, 1862; our Inv.1991-79], and hints of past curatorship and industrial heritage, Ironbridge; on the desk, present and future science including DNA, 60 molecular model, plan of the Wellcome Wing opening 2000, pictorial heritage represented by postcard of oil painting 'Coalbrookdale by Night' by Loutherbourg 1801 (Inv.1952-452), and a prism reflecting also the PRISM Fund and museum outreach programme; entry ticket hints at museum charges issue

Sir Neil Cossons OBE

1996-1999
Painting, Serendip / by Keith Holmes, artist in residence at the Science Museum 1994 to 1996. Panel inspired by serendipitous discovery within Science Museum collections during work on commission; forming middle of triptych. Begun 1997, completed 1999 and retitled 'Serendip' from 'Ongoing no.3'. Oil on board; image 102x52.5cm in frame by artist, 107x58x3.5cm. Signed on geometrical figure bl, KH99. A showcase is structured upon matter of infinity. Within its windows are some of the treasures of science which have contributed to the making of the modern world. Including: Whittle aeroengine; DNA model; accelerator; chaos butterfly; conjectural mathematical model of stellated octohedron (from a 16th century print in'Perspectiva Corporum Regularium'); model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Penydarran' of 1804. Top right: experimental Jarvik 2000 artificial heart pump; panel was completed after artist attended pioneering operation 1998 by Stephen Westaby at Oxford Heart Centre

Serendip

1997-1999