The entries in this catalogue build on the research undertaken by all the scholars who have worked on the collection previously, and my debt to all of these – including Anthony Welch, Stuart Cary Welch, Sheila Canby, Moya Carey and the many scholars who have contributed to the catalogues created for the travelling exhibitions of the collection from 2007 onwards – is here recorded with the sincerest of thanks. Benoît and I extend our further thanks to all of the contributing authors, without whose insightful and illuminating texts this catalogue would have been so much the poorer.