This copy, printed on raw silk, is perhaps the only hand-colored copy in existence, Winterthur says.

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Hand-colored postcards from the 1930s show the house and gardens soon after they were built.

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See the video below the break for the stunning un-retouched, non-hand-colored results.

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One particularly fetching photograph by Wilding, hand-colored by Beatrice Johnson, provides a startling reminder of why the Queen was once a celebrated beauty.

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It is being offered with his Nobel diploma, a handsome two-page vellum document that contains an original hand-colored picture of a long-haired youth in a blue tunic holding the Rod of Asclepius.

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Ms. Broackes's own Bowie highlights include a 1974 Terry O'Neill photograph of David Bowie with Beat writer William S. Burroughs (hand-colored by Bowie), the Alexander McQueen jacket from his 1997 "Earthling" album cover and the mannered starkness of Mr. Bowie's Thin White Duke garb from 1976.

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Here, the menu is still written out by hand daily and then mimeographed in lilac-colored ink.

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Made of cream-colored earthenware, the vase is hand-painted with polychrome enamels and gold over passages of ivory and luster glaze each glaze and area of color or gold required a separate kiln firing at specific, carefully controlled temperatures.

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It begins with pieces from "Freeze, " which include some Donald-Judd-influenced Minimalist colored boxes and the first spot painting, the dripped paint revealing the hand of the artist himself.

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