The National Gallery is collaborating with Birkbeck, University of London, on 'Transcriptions: Writing’, an innovative new project which involves postgraduate creative writing students producing a short fiction response to a painting from the Gallery’s collection.

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Rebecca Cordingly's response to Holbein's, 'Christina of Denmark, 'Duchess of Milan'

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Deirdre Shanahan's response to Caravaggio's 'Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist'

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Laura Allsop's response to Caravaggio's, 'The Supper at Emmaus'

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Ingrid Glienke's response to Gossaert's, 'An Elderly Couple'

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James Evison's response to Hogarth's, 'The Graham Children'

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Sarah Walcott's response to Hogarth's, Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette'

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Jacqueline Haskell's response to Ingres's, 'Oedipus and the Sphinx'

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Caroline Macaulay's response to Sandro Botticelli's 'Venus and Mars'

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Michelle Shine's response to Manet's, 'Corner of a Café-Concert'

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Catriona Jarvis's response to Pissarro's, 'The Louvre Under Snow'

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David Quéva's response to Giampietrino's, 'Salome'

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Emma Bradley's response to Manet's, 'Corner of a Café-Concert'

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Ilona Jesnick's response to Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne'

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Thea Bennett's response to Moretto da Brescia's 'Portrait of a Young Man'

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Ilona Jesnick's response to Moroni: 'The Tailor'