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Théodore Géricault, The Coal Waggon, a black chalk watercolour

Although he attempted some formal training (including a spel…
Thomas Gainsborough, A cart passing along a winding road, a watercolour

Gainsborough rarely bothered to paint specific locations aft…
Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of a Lady, a chalk study

This figure study is one of a group which may have been made…
Thomas Girtin, Kirkstall Abbey, a watercolour

This watercolour is signed and dated 1800, late in Girtin's …
Thomas Girtin, Westminster and Lambeth, a drawing

This view of London to the north and south of the River Tham…
Thomas Gosse, The Founding of the Settlement of Port-Jackson at Botany Bay in New South Wales, a print

The print shows the first British penal colony in Australia …
Thomas Jones, Houses in Naples, oil on paper

From 1776 to 1783 the Welsh artist Thomas Jones (1742-1803) …
Titian, St Eustace or St Hubert, a drawing

The scene is set in a hilly landscape with classical ruins a…
Urs Graf, The Standard Bearer of the Canton of Zug, a white-line woodcut

Zug is one of the Swiss cantons which make up the Swiss Conf…
Valentine Green, Sir Joshua Reynolds, a mezzotint

More prints were made of paintings by Reynolds than any othe…
Vasily Kandinsky, Etching II, a drypoint

Between 1903 and 1909 Kandinsky simultaneously moved towards…
View of Bethlehem, pen drawing by Jan van Scorel

This view was made by the artist when he visited Bethlehem, …
Vittore Carpaccio, St Augustine in his Study, a drawing

This is a preparatory sketch for Carpaccio's painting in the…
W. Chambers, The Townley Collection in the Dining Room at Park Street, Westminster, a watercolour

Charles Townley (1737-1805) was a Lancashire Catholic with a…
Wallerant Vaillant, A Boy Drawing a Bust of the Emperor Vitellius, a mezzotint after a painting by Michiel Sweerts

After working as an assistant to Prince Rupert, Vaillant set…
Wenceslaus Hollar, View of the Tower of London, a drawing

The drawing was made in pen and brown ink with watercolour o…
Wenceslaus Hollar, Winter, an etching

The young woman is warmly dressed against the cold. She wear…
Willam Pether, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, a mezzotint

An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system, named a…
William Blake, Albion Rose, a colour printed etching with hand-drawn additions in ink and watercolour

This plate was once part of the Large Book of Designs which …
William Blake, Michelangelo before the Roman Colosseum, an engraving after a drawing by Henry Fuseli

During the time of William Blake (1757-1827) artists rarely …
William Blake, The Judgment of Paris, a watercolour

Blake made this watercolour for Thomas Butts, his life-long …
William Henry Hunt, Bushey Churchyard, a pen and ink drawing with watercolour

'Bird's nest' Hunt (1790-1864) earned his nickname for his s…
William Hodges, View of Island of Otaheite (Tahiti), a watercolour

This large brush drawing in grey wash and watercolour over p…
William Hogarth, Beer Street and Gin Lane, two prints

Hogarth claimed that these prints were 'calculated to reform…
William Hogarth, Characters and Caricaturas, a print

This etching was designed as a subscription ticket - a recei…
William Hogarth, Gulielmus Hogarth, a print

This is an unfinished proof engraving, before the lettering …
William James Müller, Luxor, a watercolour

William James Müller (1812-1845) was the son of a Prussian é…
William Morris, Initial D, a design for a woodcut

William Morris (1834-96) was an immensely influential writer…
William Pars, A Sepulchral Monument at Mylasa, a watercolour drawing with bodycolour

In 1764 William Pars (1742-82) was commissioned by the Socie…
William Sharp, Thomas Paine, a print after a painting by George Romney

Thomas Paine published The Rights of Man in two parts in 179…
Shiva, Parvati and their children on Mount Kailash, a drawing

Shiva is a complex figure, at once both a chaste and solitar…
Aubrey Beardsley, The Toilet of Salome, a design in pen and ink

This is a design for an illustration to the English edition …
James Gillray, Promis'd Horrors of the French Invasion, -or- Forcible Reasons for Negociating a Regicide Peace,

In 1796, after Napoleon Bonaparte's lightning campaign in no…
Leonardo da Vinci, Bust of a warrior in profile, a silverpoint drawing

This study is drawn in metalpoint , specifically silverpoint…
Ludvig von Siegen, Holy Family and St John the Baptist, a mezzotint print

Mezzotint (literally translated as 'half-tone') was a printm…
Michelangelo Buonarotti, The Fall of Phaeton, a drawing

This classical myth is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses . At …
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epifania, a drawing

This cartoon is drawn with black chalk on 26 sheets of paper…
Raphael, Studies of the Virgin and Child, a drawing

This sheet of rapid studies is drawn in pen and ink. The thr…
Raphael, The Massacre of the Innocents, a drawing, and a print by Marcantonio Raimondi after

This is a working drawing in pen and brown ink. In it we see…
Sir David Wilkie, Nude Woman on a Ladder, a black and red chalk drawing with watercolour

Wilkie (1785-1841) began his artistic training in 1799 at th…
Taddeo Zuccaro, The Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The study is drawn over black chalk in pen and grey and blac…
William Blake, Thenot remonstrates with Colinet, Lightfoot in the background, a wood-engraving

This is one of a series of wood-engravings made by Blake to …
William Hogarth, The Bad Taste of the Town, an etching

This etching was Hogarth's earliest attack on the taste for …
Ronald Searle, George Cruikshank, pen and black ink sketch, over graphite

Ronald Searle (born in 1920) is an internationally famous ca…

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