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Adriaen van Ostade, The Painter, an etching

Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85) is best known for his low-life …
Albrecht Altdorfer, Landscape with a Spruce and Two Willows, an etching

This signed print is one of nine etchings by Altdorfer (abou…
Albrecht Dürer, Head of a Woman, a drawing

This study is drawn with a brush in black and grey bodycolou…
Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, a copperplate engraving

‘Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I …
Albrecht Dürer, Landscape with a Cannon, an etching

The subject matter of this print is obscure. A Turk stands p…
Albrecht Dürer, Landscape with a Woodland Pool, a drawing

It is generally agreed that this landscape drawing is one of…
Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia, an engraving

The bat-like creature flying through a night sky declares th…
Albrecht Dürer, Sudarium of St Veronica supported by two angels, an engraving

The sudarium of St Veronica is the cloth with which, accordi…
Albrecht Dürer The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a woodcut

When the 27-year-old Dürer published the text of the Book of…
Albrecht Dürer, Virgin and Child with a monkey, an engraving

The poses of the Virgin and Child reflect the classicism and…
Alexander Cozens, 'Blot' Landscape Composition, a brown wash drawing

Alexander Cozens (1717-86) described his 'blot' method for m…
Alexander Runciman, Lochleven Castle on an Islet, a chalk drawing

Alexander Runciman (1736-85) and his brother John (1744-68),…
Andrea del Sarto, Four Studies of a Child, a red chalk drawing with red wash

These studies for the infant St John the Baptist, were made …
Anthony van Dyck, A wooded slope with farm buildings, a drawing

This is one of a number of surviving landscape scenes by van…
Antoine Lafréry, The Colosseum, an engraving

Within a few years of arriving in Rome from France in 1544, …
Antoine Watteau, Five studies of a seated woman seen from behind, a drawing

The studies are drawn from life in red chalk. The drawing wa…
Antoine Watteau, Studies of a flute-player and two women, a drawing

On the left of this drawing Watteau is concerned with the de…
Antoine Watteau, Study for the Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, a drawing

This is drawn in Watteau's typical technique of three colour…
Antoine Watteau, Three studies of open hands, a drawing

The hands are clearly drawn from life, in light but persiste…
Antoine Watteau, Woman in a striped Dress, a drawing

This drawing is done in red and black chalks with pencil. Al…
Antonio Pollaiuolo, The Battle of the Nudes, a copperplate engraving

This large engraving of ten fighting men was the most influe…
Ben Nicholson, Three Mugs and a Bowl, a linocut

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) is best known as a pioneer of abst…
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, Auch ich war in Arkadien, an etching

Kolbe (1759-1835), felt the intense identity with nature sha…
Christ before Herod, a woodcut

This large woodcut is probably the earliest print in The Bri…
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Country Dance, a drawing

This is a neat pen and brown ink drawing with brown and grey…
Cornelis Visscher, The Large Cat, an engraving

Together with an etching by Hollar, this is the most famous …
C.R.W. Nevinson, A Dawn, 1914, a drypoint

At the outbreak of the First World War (1914-18), C.R.W. Nev…
C.R.W. Nevinson, Looking through Brooklyn Bridge, a drypoint

In 1919 Nevinson turned his back on the war art that had bro…
Dalziel Brothers, Until her Death, a wood-engraving after Frederick Augustus Sandys

Sandys (1832-1904) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter from Norwich…
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Cabinet d'un Peintre ('A Painter's Cabinet', an etching

Chodowiecki (1726-1801) left his native Danzig (now Gdansk i…
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, The Improvement of Morals, an etching

By the age of 60, Chodowiecki (1726-1801) had been the most …
David Allan, Two Men on a Seat, a pencil and black chalk drawing

As a boy, Allan (1744-1796) was expelled from school for car…
David Lucas, Summer Afternoon - After a Shower, a mezzotint after John Constable

This mezzotint was first published in part four of Constable…
Edgar Degas, Dancers Practising at the Barre, a study in oil paint on green paper

During his lifetime Degas (1834-1917) depicted many scenes f…
Edgar Degas, Le Sommeil (Sleep), a monotype

Degas (1834-1917) took up monotype printing in 1874-75, afte…
Edgar Degas, Woman with Field Glasses, a drawing in thinned oil paint

This is a study for a figure that appeared in Degas' paintin…
Edouard Manet, Les Courses, a lithograph

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is sometimes called the first Mode…
Edvard Munch, Self-portrait with skeleton arm, a lithograph

This is one of the first lithographs that Munch (1863-1944) …
Edvard Munch, The Sick Child, a drypoint

Munch's first attempt at this theme of the sick child was in…
Edward Lear, L is much disturbed by several large flies, a drawing in pen and ink

Edward Lear (1812-1888) is most famous as the author of vers…
El Lissitzky, Proun, a lithograph

'Proun' is an abbreviation for the Russian 'Project for the …
Erhard Schön, Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant, a woodcut

Erhard Schön (1491-1592) was the most prolific woodcut desig…
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Otto Müller, a woodcut

Kirchner's output of paintings, drawings and prints from mid…
Etienne Delaune, Goldsmith's Workshop, an engraving

This pair of signed and dated engravings by Delaune (1519-15…
Federico Barocci, Landscape with Banks and Trees, a drawing

This landscape was drawn from life in black chalk with a gre…
Filippino Lippi, A Nude Man, a silverpoint drawing

This sketch is in silverpoint , heightened with white on mau…
Francesco Bartolozzi, Omai a Native of Ulaietea, an engraving (after a sketch by Nathaniel Dance)

Omai, a young South Sea Islander, charmed the officers of th…
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a red chalk drawing over graphite

This drawing was the basis of several finished oil portraits…
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, El sueño de la razon produce monstruos, an etching

In 1799 Goya produced a series of 80 etchings known as Los C…
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Otra locura suya en la misma plaza, an etching

This print is from a set of 33 etchings known as the Tauroma…
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Self-portrait, an etching

Goya has depicted himself in profile with a proud expression…
François Boucher, Pastoral Composition with Two Young Lovers, a chalk drawing

This fine drawing is in black chalk with some white and yell…
Fred Williams, Circle Landscape, Upwey, an etching and aquatint

The Australian painter and printmaker Fred Williams (1927-82…
Frederico Barocci, The Annuciation, an etching

Barocci (about 1535-1612) was the greatest Italian painter o…
Georg Frederic Schmidt, Self-portrait with Spider at the Window, an etching

As a teenager Schmidt (1712-75) attended the Academy of Art …
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Design for a Medal

This small, finished drawing shows a design by Bernini (1598…
Giorgio Vasari, Abundance, a drawing

Abundance or Plenty carries a basket of fruit on her right s…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, Al Dolo, an etching

Canaletto (1697-1768) created an image of Venice which had a…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, London Bridge, a drawing

The great Venetian painter Canaletto came to London in 1746,…
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri, Plate XI, an etching

Piranesi's etchings of imaginary prisons held a hypnotic fas…
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Capitol, Rome, a drawing

This drawing, in pen and brown ink over red and black chalk,…
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, A Pastoral Journey, a drawing in paint

Castiglione (1609-64) was a Genoese painter and etcher. His …
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Theseus Finding the Arms of his Father, a monotype

Before the birth of Theseus, his father had left a sword and…
Guercino, Charity with an Old Man, a pen and ink sketch

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino, was b…
Hans Baldung, called 'Grien', Witches' Sabbath, a woodcut

Hans Baldung (1485-1545) had a personal fascination with mag…
Hans Hoffmann, Dürer as a child, a drawing after Albrecht Dürer

This is a remarkably close copy of Dürer's Self-portrait at …
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Rich Man, a woodcut

The Dance of Death is the most celebrated series of woodcuts…
Hans Wechtlin, Skull Within an Ornamental Frame, a woodcut

This great skull seems to thrust itself off the page into ou…

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