Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

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Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar

2018

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David Hockney undertakes a commission to design and install a stained-glass window in Westminster Abbey to commemorate the sixty-fifth year of Queen Elizabeth II's reign.

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