Furniture relating to the history of the college, textiles, silver (see below) and stained glass. Highlights include:

• tapestries designed by Edward Burne-Jones
• stained glass by John Piper
• a late-15th century Italian Processional Cross
• an early 17^th century Neapolitan cabinet

Some 1,600 watercolours and drawings, depicting a wide variety of subjects and painted by some of the best-known artists in the media, such as

• Thomas Gainsborough
• Thomas Girtin
• J.M.W. Turner
• Samuel Palmer

Works in a range of media, including:

• ceramics by former Eton master Gordon Baldwin
• paintings by Anthony Frost
• sculpture by Anthony Gormley
• prints by Howard Hodgkin
• pastel works by Sean Scully

There are about 450 oil portraits. The earliest are 16th century and the most recent were painted in the last few years. Sitters include kings, past headmasters and portraits of Old Etonians, painted just after they left the school. Many portraits in the last category, which are known as the Eton Leaving Portraits, were painted by artists who were amongst the most significant portraitists of their time, including:

• Sir Joshua Reynolds
• Benjamin West
• Sir Thomas Lawrence
• Derek Hill
• Andrew Festing

There are about 100 other oil paintings in the collection that are not portraits, such as landscape views of the college. Highlights include:

• an early 17th-century panoramic view of Venice by the Italian painter and printmaker Odoardo Fialetti
• George Frederic Watts’ painting of Sir Galahad with his horse

There are over 4,300 prints. Most are portraits but there are also maps, topographical views and genre prints. The print collection was mainly formed by two major bequests (Anthony Morris Storer in 1799 and George Warren Swire in 1950) and continues to grow.

The silver collection comprises over 180 silver and silver-gilt pieces. The college acquired silver both to enhance its dining tables in College Hall and to decorate the altars in College Chapel and Lower Chapel. Many of the pieces are still used in the spaces for which they were originally intended. The earliest object in the collection is a magnificent coconut cup of c.1500. Other highlights include an Elizabethan communion cup of 1569 and several examples of Georgian high-table silverware. Recently benefactors commissioned a pair of candlesticks by Rod Kelly and a chalice by Miriam Hanid.

Among the many sculptures is a significant collection of busts, as well as examples of public statuary. Sculptors represented include:

• Francis Bird
• John Bacon
• Francis Chantrey
• Martin Jennings