Happy 175th birthday RCA: a survey of famous students – in pictures

Ian Dury – Dany Bubbles (1966) Photograph: Courtesy of the Dury family/estate of the artist

Peter Blake – Children Reading Comics (1956) Photograph: Royal College of Art Collection

Jake and Dinos Chapman – Forehead (1997) Photograph: Jake and Dinos Chapman/White Cube

Gavin Turk – Pop Up (2000) Photograph: Courtesy Gavin Turk

I'm in the Mood for Love (1961) by David Hockney Photograph: Royal College of Art Collection

Hockney's (Composition) Thrust (1962) Photograph: Royal College of Art Collection

Henry Moore – Head of the Virgin (1922-3) Photograph: By permission of the Henry Moore Foundation

Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture with Colour and Strings (conceived 1939, executed 1961) Photograph: The Ingram Collection at the Lightbox

Frank Auerbach – Nude (1985) Photograph: Royal College of Art Collection

The Perfect Place to Grow (2001) by Tracey Emin Photograph: Tate, London 2012/courtesy of Tracey Emin

David Adjaye's design for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (2012) Photograph: David Adjaye

David Mach – Spike (2011) Photograph: Courtesy of David Mach

Edward Johnston – Underground Roundel from Westminster Station (c1930) Photograph: TfL/London Transport Museum

James Dyson – Ballbarrow (1974) Photograph: James Dyson

Ron Arad – Rover chair (1981) Photograph: Ron Arad Associates, London

Konstantin Grcic's Medici chair, manufactured by Mattiazzi (2012) Photograph: Gerhardt Kellermann/Mattiazzi

A cabinet and stand by Gottfried Semper (1855) Photograph: Pip Barnard/Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Embassy silver cutlery and candlesticks (1963) by David Mellor Photograph: Design Council/David Mellor Design

A Sir Henry Cole teapot, made by Minton & Co (c1850) Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Ark: A Journal of the Royal College of Art, punk issue (1978). The cover design is by Lawrence Mynott Photograph: Royal College of Art Archive

A women's life modelling class in 1905 Photograph: Royal College of Art Archive

A students' end-of-term frolic in 1894 Photograph: Royal College of Art Archive

The RCA common room in the 1930s Photograph: Royal College of Art Archive