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Watercolour of Buckingham House's East Library
The Libraries of George III

George III was a keen bibliophile

JAMES STEPHANOFF (1789–1874)

Buckingham House: The Octagon Library

1818

Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil | 21.2 x 24.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 922147

The library at Buckingham House was intended to serve as a working library from the outset, and scholars from across all fields and political spectra were admitted, even those with whom the king personally disagreed.


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