Title page
Contents
Part I: Reviewing Committee Report for 2017-18 12
Part II: Operation of the Control 15
Individual export cases 17
Case 1. The Schmadribach Waterfall near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland by Joseph Anton Koch 19
Case 2. A Roman figurine of a man wearing a hooded cloak 21
Case 3. A portrait bust, Queen Victoria, by Alfred Gilbert 23
Case 4. Workes (1640) by Benjamin Jonson 25
Case 5. Mae West Lips Sofa, Salvador Dali and Edward James 27
Case 6. The Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi by Francesco Guardi 32
Case 7. Ehrenbreitstein by Joseph Mallord William Turner 33
Case 8. La Leçon de Piano by Henri Matisse 35
Case 9. George I Palladian baby house 36
Case 10. Images from the Life (The Norman Album) by Julia Margaret Cameron 38
Case 11. The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host by John Martin 41
Case 12. Man's silk/wool doublet 43
Case 13. Lobster Telephone (White Aphrodisiac), Salvador Dali and Edward James 44
Case 14. The Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban by Sir Peter Paul Rubens 47
Case 15. Mother and Child by Barbara Hepworth 49
Case 18. (2015-16) Scottish seal matrix pair 49
Appendix A. Report on additional funding for acquisitions 52
Appendix B. History of export controls in the UK 59
Appendix C. Terms of reference of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest 61
Appendix D. Membership of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest during 2017-18 61
Appendix E. List of independent assessors who attended meetings during 2017-18 63
Appendix F. Value of items placed under deferral (2008-09 to 2017-18) 65
Appendix G. Items licensed for export after reference to expert advisers for advice 1 May 2017 to 30 April 2018 66
Appendix H. Applications considered and deferred on the recommendation of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, 2008-09 to 2017-18 68
Appendix I. Composition of the Advisory Council on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest 70
Appendix J. Further reading 71
Appendix K. Membership of the Working Party on Manuscripts, Documents and Archives during 2017-18 72
Appendix L. Full list of plates 73
Plates
Plate 1a. The Schmadribachfall by Joseph Anton Koch 19
Plate 1b and 1c. The Schmadribach Waterfall near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland by Joseph Anton Koch (in situ at The British Museum and front view) 19
Plate 2a. Roman figurine (front view) 21
Plate 2b. Roman figurine (rear view) 22
Plate 3a. A portrait bust, Queen Victoria, by Alfred Gilbert 23
Plate 3b. A portrait bust, Queen Victoria, by Alfred Gilbert (side view) 24
Plate 4a. Workes (1640) by Benjamin Jonson (spine and inner page spread) 25
Plate 4b. Workes (1640) by Benjamin Jonson (detail) 26
Plate 5a. Mae West Lips Sofa, Salvador Dali and Edward James (side view) 27
Plate 5b. Mae West Lips Sofa, Salvador Dali and Edward James (in situ). Elizabeth Whiting & Associates / Alamy Stock Photo 27
Plate 5c. Mae West Lips Sofa, Salvador Dali and Edward James (front view) 30
Plate 6. The Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi by Francesco Guardi 31
Plate 7. Ehrenbreitstein by Joseph Mallord William Turner 33
Plate 8a. George I Palladian baby house (front view) 36
Plate 8b. George I Palladian baby house (front view with doors open) 37
Plate 9a. Images from the Life (The Norman Album) by Julia Margaret Cameron (cover view) 38
Plates 9b-j. Images from the Life (The Norman Album) by Julia Margaret Cameron (inner page details) 39
Plate 10. The Destruction of Pharaoh's Host by John Martin. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program 42
Plate 11a. Lobster Telephone (White Aphrodisiac), Salvador Dali and Edward James 44
Plate 11b. Lobster Telephone (White Aphrodisiac), Salvador Dali and Edward James (detail) 45
Plate 12. The Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban by Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program 48
Plate 13. Scottish seal matrix pair 50
Table 1. The statistics below show the figures for the number of cases from 2008-09 to 2017-18 57
Table 2. The statistics below show the figures for the values associated with cases from 2008-09 to 2017-18 58