Prints and Drawings (Room 90)
1400 – present day
The British Museum holds the national collection of Western
prints and drawings, which comprises approximately 50,000 drawings
and over two million prints dating from the beginning of the
fifteenth century up to the present day.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epifania, around AD 1550-53
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epifania, around AD 1550-53
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Jacopo de’ Barbari, Bird’s eye view of Venice, a woodcut, Italy, AD 1500
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Jacopo de’ Barbari, Bird’s eye view of Venice, a woodcut, Italy, AD 1500
Changing displays highlight selected items from the collection,
while other works on paper may be requested and viewed in the Study
Room.
The collection ranges from great masterpieces by such important
artists as Albrecht Durer, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt and
Goya to historical, satirical and topographical prints and printed
ephemera.