Sentence examples for surviving collection from inspiring English sources

The East Anglian painted screens are the largest surviving collection of medieval painting.

A landmark district within the neighborhood was established as the largest surviving collection of Victorian row houses in the country.

The oldest surviving collection was assembled in the 17th Century by John Tradescant.

This rhyme was first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the oldest surviving collection of English language nursery rhymes, published c. 1744 with the lyrics very similar to those still used today: Bah, Bah a black Sheep, Have you any Wool?

The city of Norwalk, Conn., has one of the nation's largest surviving collections of W.P.A. murals, thanks to a restoration effort in the 1980s that preserved nearly two dozen in the old Norwalk High School, now City Hall.

Of course, meliponiculture is nothing new for certain groups, most notably the Maya, who recorded their age-old craft in the glyphs in ruins throughout the Yucatán and in the Madrid Codex, one of the few surviving collections of Mayan hieroglyphics.

The Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz described Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (1937), the second of his two surviving collections of stories, as "eliciting the history of a certain family, a certain house in a provincial city – not from documents, events, a study of character or people's destinies – but by a search for the mythical sense, the essential core of that history..

This repertoire was very large, as has been established not only from the many pieces surviving in collections but also from excavations carried out on the factory site during the 1930s, which revealed many fragments of hitherto unlisted patterns.

The strength required to survive impact collection is difficult to model because of the fractal shape of each CP IDP.

There's no official structure, no camp leadership, just a group of people surviving, a random collection of humanity camped in a field," he says.

Those that survive, in collections from Windsor to Madrid, range from studies of equine proportion to designs for complex casting machinery.