Galleries
Prints and Drawings (Room 90), Upper floor
Exhibitions of prints and drawings are changed several times a year because long exposure to light causes works on paper to fade and discolour. More about the gallery
Changing displays
In search of Classical
Greece
travel drawings of Edward Dodwell
and Simone Pomardi 1805–1806
Experience ancient Greece through the drawings and writings of
classical scholar
Edward Dodwell (c. 1777–1832) and artist Simone Pomardi
(1757–1830), made on
their travels in 1805–1806.
7 February – 28 April 2013
Image: Edward Dodwell, Simone Pomardi, Panorama from the
top of the
Mousaion Hill, Athens. Watercolour, 1805.
Permanent displays
Three works from the department are normally on display in the Museum:
The
Triumphal Arch
Albrecht Dürer, 'The Triumphal Arch'
Woodcut, 1515
Room 12
Grayson Perry, 'Map of an Englishman' (detail)
Photogravure etching, 2004
Study Room lobby off Room 90
Epifania
Michelangelo, 'Epifania cartoon'
Black chalk, around 1550
Room 90
Other prints and drawings can be seen in the Study Room.