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Fountain with spherical stone element, surrounded by four dolphins from whose mouths water spills into an upper bowl that in turn connects with a lower bowl below. A series of small Art Nouveau masks adorn the lower bowl.

Stone relief carvings for either side of the main portal of the cemetery chapel, depicting a classically-robed man in a ploughed field, on one side sowing seed and on the other side reaping the harvest with a small scythe. Above him are symbols of a…

Fountain comprising a full-length figure in bronze of St Francis, arms outstretched, standing on a bronze orb with birds at his feet, set within a stone bowl.

Large stone relief sculpture of Christ blessing two kneeling soldiers.

Depicts Christ kneeling to support the limp body of a fallen German soldier in a pieta type composition. Christ notably has ringlets either side of his face, akin to Orthodox Jewish payots.

The hands of shadow-puppet-maker and animator Lotte Reiniger are seen drawing in white pencil on black paper the head of a boy in feathered cap. Reiniger works at a table, outdoors in the garden, at the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet.

Shadow-puppet-maker and animator Lotte Reiniger is seen working at a table, outdoors in the garden, at the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet. She is seen cutting out a figure in black paper. A small, hand-painted toy theatre stands on a low brick wall to…

Photograph showing the Royal Mail van at the gates of the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet. The van is marked 'Barnet' on the door. A sign reading 'Abbey Art Centre' is mounted on the vine-covered wall to the left while the street number '89' is just…

Informal group photograph at the Abbey Art Centre. Jean Renoir stands closest to the camera, back turned, looking on as his second wife Dido Freire is greeted by Lotte Reiniger (who wears a long string of beads); the car (possibly a taxi cab) by…