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Bridgeman's 12 Days of Christmas

'On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.....'

Art of the North of England

Bridgeman is delighted to represent The Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

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New Year = New You

Inspiration to stick to those nagging New Year's resolutions, from the Bridgeman archive.

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Beautiful Bodies

From voluptuous curves to corseted waists, the female form body has been celebrated in all shapes and sizes, from prehistoric times to the modern day.

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XIR61319 by Pieter the Elder Bruegel/ Museum Mayer van der Berg, Antwerp, Belgium/ Giraudon

...TWELVE Flemish proverbs

SSI49472 by Henri J.F. Rousseau/ Private Collection

...ELEVEN flowers blooming

ORM142474 / Oriental Museum, Durham University, UK

...TEN arms-a-waving

XJL211841 by Montse Roldos/ Private Collection

...NINE yellow houses

SLS249148/ Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

...EIGHT suffr-a-gettes

CHT164592 / Bibliotheque Litteraire Jacques Doucet, Paris/ Archives Charmet

...SEVEN Surrealists a-flying.

KW322645 / Private Collection/Ken Welsh

....SIX wives-a-swooning

BON122393 by Rene Jules Lalique/ Private Collection/ Bonhams, London, UK

...FIVE swirling mermaids

PNP252058/ Peter Newark American Pictures

...FOUR drinking ladies

PC129067/ Saint Julien Cathedral, Le Mans, France

...THREE wise men

XAM61857 by Parmigianino/ Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

...TWO cunning cupids

BAL159512 by Sarah Van Nierkerk/ Private Collection

...and a partridge in a pear tree.