The British Museum
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1400 – present day
The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock
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.
Albrecht Durer and others, The Triumphal Arch, AD 1515 More information
Albrecht Durer and others, The Triumphal Arch, AD 1515
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epifania, around AD 1550-53 More information
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epifania, around AD 1550-53
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.
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More information on changing displays
Edward Hopper, Evening Wind
Dürer and his legacy
History of texiles from across the world, £16.99
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