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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Jockey, a lithograph

This was one of Toulouse-Lautrec's last lithographs. The pub…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Miss Loie Fuller, a lithograph

Loie Fuller (1864-1901) was an American dancer who came to p…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman at the Tub, a lithograph

The Elles suite is Toulouse-Lautrec's greatest lithographic …
Henri Le Roy, Le Jardin de Sauterelles et Papillons, Plate 13, an engraving

The full title of this set of fifteen prints may be translat…
Henry Moore, Two Women: Drawing for sculpture combining wood and metal

Drawing played a major role in Henry Moore's work throughout…
Hercules Segers, Country Lane with Trees and a Farmhouse, an etching

Segers (1589/90 - about 1638), belonged to the group of Haar…
Hercules Segers, Landscape, an etching

This etching is one of four large landscapes by Segers (1589…
Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834, a lithograph

Through most of the nineteenth century, French political car…
Honoré Daumier, Street Scene with a Mountebank Playing a Drum, a drawing in pen and watercolour over black chalk

This is one of the most famous drawings by Daumier (1808-79)…
Israhel van Meckenem, Self-portrait and Wife, an engraving

The Latin inscription on the bottom of this print translates…
Jacopo Pontormo, Two Monks Standing, a chalk drawing

This drawing is a study for a painting of the Supper at Emma…
Jacques Bellange, The Annunciation, an etching

In this signed etching , Mary has been interrupted at her re…
Jacques Callot, Battle Scene, an etching

Callot's etchings of The Miseries and Sufferings of War are…
James Gillray, A Voluptuary under the horrors of Digestion, a print

Gillray portrays George, Prince of Wales, later Prince Regen…
James Gillray, The Faro Table, a drawing

Gillray is renowned both for his political prints and for sa…
James Sharples, The Forge, a steel engraving

James Sharples (1825-92) was a self-taught English artist bo…
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, a book

James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713-88) was an English architect, …
Jan van de Velde II, Night, an etching with engraving

Jan van de Velde II (about 1593-1641) was one of the group o…
Jean Morin, Memento Mori (The Skull), an etching after Philippe de Champaigne

A Memento Mori is literally a 'reminder of death'. The clock…
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Apotheosis of Napoleon I, a brown-wash pencil drawing,

Ingres' first portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte had been commis…
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Environs of Rome, an etching

Corot (1796-1875) is more famous for his soft, evocative lan…
Jim Dine, Piranesi's 24 Colored Marks, an etching with watercolour

From early in his career Jim Dine (born 1935) has introduced…
J.M.W. Turner, Tintern Abbey, the transept, a watercolour

Even before he had entered the Royal Academy schools at the …
J.M.W. Turner, Weathercote Cave, near Ingleton, when half-filled with Water and the Entrance Impassable, a watercolour

In 1816, Turner was commissioned by Dr Thomas Whitaker to pr…
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, an engraving by M. Blot after a portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs

Johann Winckelmann (1717-68) was born the son of a shoemaker…
John Constable, A study of clouds and trees, a watercolour over pencil

This sketch was probably made at Hampstead, near the house C…
John Constable, London from Hampstead, with a double rainbow, a watercolour

Constable and his wife Maria first moved to Hampstead in 181…
John Constable, Stonehenge, a watercolour over black chalk

Constable visited Stonehenge in July 1820, where he made a s…
John Scarlett Davis, The Library at Tottenham, the seat of B. G. Windus, Esq., a watercolour

This highly finished watercolour was commissioned in 1835 by…
Jost Amman, An Allegory of a Prosperous Germany, drawing

Jost Amman (1539-91) was born in Switzerland but in 1561 mov…
Jost Amman, The Printer's Workshop, a woodcut

In the background two men are selecting letters from a doubl…
Juste de Juste, Human Pyramids, an etching

This extraordinary etching (signed with a monogram) is one o…
Leonardo da Vinci, Military Machines, drawing from a notebook

This is one of a number of sheets of drawings by Leonardo in…
Leonardo da Vinci, The Abdomen and Leg of a Man, a drawing

This study of the left side of a nude man is mainly concerne…
Louis Haghe, Cana, a lithograph after a watercolour by David Roberts

David Roberts (1796-1864) was the first artist to travel to …
Luke Clennell, The Fair on the Thames, February 4th 1814, a hand-coloured etching

The medieval London Bridge was built on nineteen narrow arch…
Madonna and Child, a woodcut

The Virgin sits on a cushion placed on a tiled floor, a posi…
Marcantonio Raimondi, Man Climbing the Bank of a River, a copperplate engraving

Michelangelo (1475-1564) had to abandon his fresco of the Ba…
Maria Sibylla Merian, A Surinam caiman fighting a South American false coral snake, a drawing

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) came from an artistic famil…
Martin Schongauer, The Temptation of St Anthony, a copperplate engraving

According to his biographer, the rigorous asceticism practis…
Martin Schongauer, Young Woman Fanning a fire with a bird's wing, a drawing

The meaning of this curious drawing is unclear. The young wo…
Mary Delany, Crinum Zeylanicum: Asphodil Lilly, a paper collage

Mary Delany began making paper collages, or ‘mosaicks' as sh…
Mary Delany, Passiflora laurifolia: bay leaved, a paper collage

After the death of her second husband in 1768, Mary Delany l…
Mary Delany, Physalis, Winter Cherry, a paper collage

In the autumn of 1772 Mary Delany (1700-88) wrote to her nie…
Master FVB, The Annunciation, a copperplate engraving

Flemish painters had represented the Annunciation in domesti…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Portrait of Andrea Quaratesi, a drawing

According to Giorgio Vasari, one of Michelangelo's biographe…
Odilon Redon, La Cellule d'Or, a drawing in oil and metallic paint

This is one of Redon's (1840-1916) most famous coloured past…
Ottavio Leoni, Self-portrait, an engraving

Ottavio Leoni (1578-1630) was one of the most fashionable an…
Parmigianino, Figures in a Ferry Boat, a drawing

In this ordinary scene, an oarsman pushes the boat off the b…
Paul Gauguin, Manao Tupapau ('Watched by the Spirits of the Dead'), a colour woodcut

Gauguin (1848-1903) returned to Paris from his first visit t…
Paul Klee, Woman and Animal, an etching and aquatint

Paul Klee (1879-1940), was a highly inventive and individual…
Paul Sandby, The Artist's Studio, a watercolour and bodycolour drawing on blue paper

Both Paul Sandby (1730-1809) and his brother Thomas (1721-98…
Peter Paul Rubens, drawing for The Fall of the Damned

This large sketch is one of a series of five drawings relate…
Peter Paul Rubens, Eight Turkish Women, a drawing

The figures are simply drawn in pen and brown ink. Like Gent…
Peter Paul Rubens, Isabella Brant, a portrait drawing

This portrait of Rubens's first wife, Isabella Brant (1591-1…
Peter Paul Rubens, Landscape with stream overhung with trees, a drawing

This is a remarkable drawing both in its colouring and in th…
Peter Paul Rubens, Lioness, a drawing

This is a magnificent drawing in both scale and style. It is…
Peter Paul Rubens, Study for a crucified Man, a drawing

This is clearly a study for a crucified figure, most probabl…
Pier Leone Ghezzi, Dr James Hay as Bear Leader, a drawing

This pen and ink drawing is a caricature of the tutors and y…
Pierre-Imbert Drevet, Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, an engraving

The steady demand for engraved portraits of men prominent in…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with a fortified town, a drawing

In the centre rises a large castle set in a hilly landscape.…
Raphael, Head and shoulders of a young woman, a drawing

This is a drawing from early in Raphael's career. It is draw…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait leaning on a stone sill, an etching

Rembrandt here portrays himself in Renaissance attire, takin…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait with mouth open, a drawing

Rembrandt first drew the face and collar with pen and brown …
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Artist drawing from the model, an etching

This is an unfinished etching, with drypoint and burin . The…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Great Coppenol, an etching

The formal pose of this large portrait was probably requeste…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Shell, an etching

Still-life was one of a number of new genres in painting tha…
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Star of the Kings, a drawing

This drawing, in pen and brown ink, depicts a Netherlandish …

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