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John White, The manner of their fishing, a watercolour

This is not a scene that White recorded directly from life. …
Joseph Swain, Amor Mundi, a wood-engraving after Frederick Sandys

Joseph Swain (1820-1909) was one of the most prolific wood-e…
King Charles I on Horseback, a woodcut

This is an example of the cheapest sort of print available i…
Leonardo da Vinci, Virgin and Child with Cat, a drawing

The drawing shows the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child…
Louis Haghe, El Khasnè, a lithograph after a watercolour by David Roberts

Born in Edinburgh, David Roberts (1796-1864) was first emplo…
Lucas Cranach the Elder, St George and the Dragon, a woodcut

This sumptuously coloured, signed print by Cranach (1472-155…
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Temptation of St Anthony, a woodcut

The image of St Anthony being beaten by devils while suspend…
Lucas van Leyden, Christ Presented to the People, a copperplate engraving

The story comes from John's Gospel (19:5). The Roman prefect…
Lucas van Leyden, Samson and Delilah, a copperplate engraving

The print depicts a scene from the Old Testament story of Sa…
Martin Droeshout, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), an engraving

This signed and dated engraving by Martin Droeshout (1601- a…
Martin Schongauer, Christ bearing the Cross, a copperplate engraving

This ambitious composition was Schongauer's largest and most…
Martin Schongauer, The Death of the Virgin, a copperplate engraving

According to the thirteenth-century Golden Legend of Jacobus…
Master ES, Virgin and Child Enthroned Between Two Angels, a copperplate engraving

The Virgin holds a sceptre and is enthroned as Queen of Heav…
Michelangelo Buonarotti, Study for Adam, a drawing

This beautiful red chalk drawing of the male nude is for the…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Christ on the Cross,a drawing

This beautiful black chalk drawing shows the crucified and l…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Four studies of a crucified man, a drawing

This is a preparatory drawing in red chalk for the figure of…
Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I: Design for the Obverse of the Great Seal of Ireland, a drawing in pen a

This is a detailed design for the principal side (the obvers…
Nicolas Poussin, Self-portrait, a red chalk drawing

The long inscription in Italian below the drawing was writte…
Odilon Redon, The Spider, a lithograph

Apart from some unsuccessful early attempts at landscape pai…
Owen Jones, The Great Exhibition, a watercolour with pen and ink

The Great Exhibition (or the International Exhibition of the…
Pablo Picasso, Seated nude and head of a woman, a preparatory study for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, bodycolour an

This study by Picasso (1881-1973), probably executed in the …
Paolo Veronese, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The subject of this drawing by Veronese (1528-1588), is the …
Parmigianino, The Entombment, an etching

Before moving to Rome in 1524, the young Parmigianino (1503/…
Parmigianino, Virgin and Child with Saints, study for a composition

This is a pen and brown wash drawing over red chalk. It was …
Paul Gauguin, Two Marquesans, a monotype

In 1891 Gauguin (1848-1903) left France for Tahiti and the M…
Paul Sandby, The Port of Aegina, an aquatint after William Pars

Aquatint was a new medium designed to reproduce the appearan…
Paul Sandby, View from the Gardens of Somerset House, Looking East and West, a pen and ink drawing with watercolour

These panoramic drawings by Paul Sandby (1730-1809) were mad…
Paulus Pontius, Self-portrait of Rubens, an engraving

Pontius's particular skill was to convey in engraving much o…
Perino del Vaga, Vertumnus and Pomona, a drawing

The two central figures of this story are taken from Ovid's …
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules victorious over Discord, a drawing

Hercules was the classical figure famous for his heroic deed…
Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Theodore Mayerne, a portrait drawing

Rubens made this sketch in black chalk and some wash. He the…
Peter Paul Rubens, The 'Coup de Lance', a drawing

This drawing was made in preparation for an engraving by Boe…
Peter Paul Rubens, The Martyrdom of St Paul, a coloured drawing

This drawing of the execution of St Paul was a modello , or …
Pier Francesco Mola, The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, a drawing

This dramatic scene is painted with a broad brush and using …
Pierre Lombart, The Headless Horseman, engravings

These three signed portraits were all printed from the same …
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Nude Woman Sitting, Drying her Right Foot, a red and white chalk drawing

Renoir (1841-1919) began his career as a painter of porcelai…
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Standing Female Nude, a black chalk drawing

Prud'hon (1758-1823) was a keen revolutionary like his conte…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Calumny of Apelles, a drawing

This drawing was made in pen and brown ink with a brown wash…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Solicitudo Rustica an etching

This panoramic landscape was designed by Bruegel early in hi…
Pieter van der Heyden, Big Fish Eat Little Fish, an engraving after a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

In the foreground, a child is instructed by its father, 'See…
Pietro da Cortona, Jason Carrying off the Golden Fleece, a drawing

This is one of the finest finished compositional studies in …
Pietro Testa, Three Saints Imploring the Virgin, an etching

The towers of Lucca, Testa's home town in Tuscany, appear in…
Prince Rupert (Ruprecht of Pfalz), The Great Executioner, a mezzotint

This huge mezzotint is a masterpiece from the early years of…
Raffaellino del Garbo, Studies for Christ Rising from the Tomb and Hand Studies

This beautiful drawing was made from the model in metalpoint…
Raphael, Heads of the Virgin and Child, a drawing

This drawing is one of a series made by Raphael in his early…
Raphael, Nude Man with raised arms, a drawing

This is one of a series of black chalk drawings for an altar…
Raphael, Study for the Phrygian Sibyl, a drawing

Raphael began this study with an underdrawing using a stylus…
Raphael, The Dream of Scipio or Vision of a Knight, a drawing

This drawing in pen and brown ink is a cartoon for a paintin…
Raphael, The Virgin and Child, a drawing

This drawing is made of black chalk with a few touches of wh…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Healing the Sick, an etching

This was the most famous of Rembrandt's prints throughout th…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ presented to the People, a drypoint

This imposing image represents a high point in Rembrandt's c…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait in a soft hat, an etching

In 1631 Rembrandt moved from Leiden to Amsterdam in order to…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Entombment, an etching

This is one of a series of prints made by Rembrandt in the 1…
Richard Dadd, The Halt in the Desert, a watercolour

In 1842 Richard Dadd's patron, Sir Thomas Phillips, took him…
Richard Doyle, Under the Dock Leaves, a watercolour

Popular enthusiasm for fairy tales reached its peak in the n…
Robert van Voerst, Portrait bust of Charles I, an engraving

This large engraving, which reproduces a sculpted bust of Ch…
Rolf Nesch, Herring Catch, a colour metal print in six parts

Early in 1938 Rolf Nesch (1893-1975) watched a herring catch…
Rolf Nesch, Skaugum, a metal print

Skaugum is from the series Snow , twenty metal prints drawn …
Rosso Fiorentino, Recumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep, a red, chalk drawing

This is one of the finest surviving examples of Rosso's red …
Salvator Rosa, Jason and the Dragon, an etching

In this signed etching , Jason pours the magic potion given …
Samuel Palmer, A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star, a watercolour with bodycolour and pen and ink

Palmer (1805-1881) began his career as an artist at an early…
Sandro Botticelli, Abundance or Autumn, a drawing

This is one of the most elaborate and beautiful drawings by …
Sir Edward John Poynter, Two Studies of a Male Nude, a chalk drawing

As a teenager, Poynter (1836-1919) visited Rome where he was…
Sir John Everett Millais, Retribution, a pen and ink drawing

Millais (1829-1896) was a child prodigy who became, at the a…
Sir John Tenniel, Alice and the Cheshire Cat, a design engraved on wood by the Dalziel Brothers

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland began as an impromptu story…
Sir Peter Lely, Portrait of a Girl, a chalk drawing

Born in Holland, Peter Lely (1618-80) arrived in England to …
Sir Thomas Lawrence, Emma, a chalk drawing

Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was a self-taught child prodigy:…
Stefano della Bella, A Fury, a drawing

This sheet is taken from an album of costume studies by the …

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