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Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Crosses, a drypoint

Rembrandt often retouched his etched plates with a drypoint …
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Trees, an etching

This atmospheric print is widely regarded as Rembrandt's gre…
Rembrandt van Rijn, Young Woman Sleeping, a drawing

This is an unconventional type of portrait. It is both affec…
Roelandt Savery, Alpine Landscape, a chalk drawing

This is one of a group of large drawings in red and black ch…
Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Young Woman, a drawing

Drawn in silverpoint on prepared paper coloured cream, this …
Sebald Beham, Large Church Festival, a woodcut

Beham's long woodcut is organized symmetrically on either si…
Sebald Beham, Melancholia, an engraving

This little print is a much-simplified version of Dürer's ma…
Sebald Beham, November and December, an engraving

The two dancing couples each represent a peasant festival id…
Thomas Gainsborough, Self-portrait of the artist sketching, a pencil drawing

Thomas Gainsborough sometimes said that while painting portr…
Thomas Gainsborough, Study for a portrait of a Lady with a rose, a drawing

In this large-scale drawing, the lady is seen in profile, ho…
Thomas Rowlandson, Exhibition Stare Case, a print

This print is based on a drawing which was probably made in …
Ugo da Carpi, Diogenes, a woodcut after Parmigianino

The ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes (about 400-325 BC) re…
Vasily Kandinsky, The Mirror, a linocut

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a leading figure in the dev…
William Alexander, Pingze Men, the Western Gate of Beijing, a watercolour drawing

William Alexander (1767-1816) accompanied Lord Macartney's e…
William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress, plate 8, a print

This is the last of eight prints making up Hogarth's series …
William Hogarth, The Idle 'Prentice betrayed by his Whore and taken in a night cellar with his accomplice, a pri

These four items illustrate different stages in the creative…
William Wynne Ryland, Dormio Innocuus, an engraving after a painting by Angelica Kauffman
George Bellows, Business Men’s Bath, lithograph

George Bellows (1882–1925) attended the New York School of A…
Christopher Ironside, four sets of designs for United Kingdom decimal coins

These drawings are Christopher Ironside’s designs for the Un…
Christopher Ironside, plaster model and sketch of a design for the United Kingdom five pence coin

For hundreds of years, the coinage of the UK had been based …
Painting of a horse and groom, inscribed ‘Riza drew it’

This painting of a dappled grey horse comes from an album of…
Flower basket

The ribbon attached to the basket’s handle seems to be…
Landscape painting, Tang Yin

In the foreground, a scholar sits in his rustic cottage and …
Cradle to Grave by Pharmacopoeia

Cradle to Grave explores our approach to health in Britain t…
Kasapoli mask of a missionary

This mask depicts a missionary who was associated with unpop…
Charles Townley, a draft catalogue of sculptures at Park Street, Westminster

At the end of the eighteenth century, Charles Townley's magn…
Excerpt from the travel diary of Charles Townley

Charles Townley (1737-1805) was a collector of classical ant…
Frederick York, The Ethnography Gallery, a photograph

Between 1850 and 1900 the size of The British Museum's Ethno…
George Cruikshank, Landing the Treasures, or Results of the Polar Expedition!!!, a cartoon

In its early days the British Museum had a Department of Nat…
Letter to Charles Townley from Gavin Hamilton, describing excavations in Italy

In this thirteen-page letter to Charles Townley, Gavin Hamil…
Letter to Charles Townley from Thomas Jenkins concerning the Discobolos

Thomas Jenkins (1722-98) was born in Rome. He studied painti…
List of Marbles discovered by Gavin Hamilton in the ruins near Rome since 1769

During the eighteenth century, visitors on the Grand Tour ma…
Plan of the Mausoleum Room

In 1856 the British Museum acquired most of the remains of t…
Roger Fenton, The South Front, a photograph

For many people, Sir Robert Smirke's massive nineteenth-cent…
The Townley Discobolos, a drawing by an unknown artist

The Discobolos ('discus-thrower'), is a marble copy of a los…
W.H. Worthington, Bust of Charles Townley, an engraving for The Gentleman's Magazine

Charles Townley (1737-1805) was born into a wealthy Catholic…
William Alexander, Installing the Bust of Ramesses II in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, a drawing

The colossal stone bust of the Egyptian king Ramesses II wei…
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph

In 1854, work began on the construction of a new domed Readi…
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph

Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867) designed The British Museum bu…
A Rajput king worshipping Krishna, a painting on paper

In this painting the ruler of the Rajput state of Mewar is s…
Aiseki, Hermitage by the Shaxi River, a hanging scroll painting

Aiseki (worked late eighteenth century) probably studied pai…
Avalokiteshvara, a colour woodblock print

This print was found in Cave 17 at Mogao together with many …
Avalokiteshvara, ink and colours on a paper banner

This is one of many examples from Mogao of a temple flag or …
Bhairavi Ragini from the Manley Ragamala, an album painting in gouache on paper

Painting, music and poetry came together in the courts of no…
Bodhidharma (Daruma), a hanging scroll painting

Bodhidharma (died around AD 532), known as Daruma in Japanes…
Chen Shun, Zhoujintang ('Hall of Daytime Elegance'), followed by the Zhoujintang ji ('Record of

The sixteenth-century artist Chen Shun was an accomplished p…
Ding Yunpeng, The God of Literature, a hanging scroll painting

Ding Yunpeng (active about 1584-1638) was from Xiuning, Anhu…
Eight album leaves dedicated to Zhou Liangging, paintings in ink and colour on paper

This album was assembled by Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672), an o…
Frontispiece to an illuminated manuscript of the Amitabha Sutra

Buddhism was the official royal religion of the Koryo dynast…
Gao Fenghan, The Ancient Pine of Dongmou, a fan painting

Gao Fenghan (1683 - after 1747) was one of the Yangzhou bagu…
Heart Sutra of the Chuson-ji Temple, a handscroll painting on indigo-dyed paper

This handscroll records in opulent gold calligraphy the text…
Illustrations to the Sutra of the Ten Kings, a painting on paper roll

The 'Ten Kings of Hell' come from an apocryphal sutra date…
Kano Kyuei, Scenes along the Length of the Sumida River, a set of 3 handscroll paintings

The Sumida River was, and remains, the main waterway of Edo …
Kano school, Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter, 4 fusuma (sliding door panel) paintings

Japanese rooms are traditionally divided by fusuma , paper-c…
Katagiri Ranseki, A sage pointing at the moon, a painting

This painting is from an album of 48 works by 48 painters an…
Katsukawa Shunsho, The actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Fudo Myo-o, a colour woodblock print

Shunshō was the first woodblock print artist to design …
Katsushika Hokusai, Dragon ascending Mount Fuji from 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji' (Fugaku hyakkei),

Hokusai (1760-1849) had achieved enormous success with the p…
Hokusai, The Great Wave

This is perhaps the single most famous of Hokusai's woodbloc…
Kei Shokei (attributed to), Mountain landscape, a hanging scroll painting

The artist of this painting is not known, though comparison …
Kitagawa Utamaro, Ohisa of the Takashima tea-shop, a colour woodblock print

Ohisa was one of the favourite subjects of several Ukiyo-e p…
Kitao Masanobu, The courtesans Hinazuru and Chozan a coloured woodblock print

The artist Kitao Masanobu (1761-1816) also wrote novels unde…
Kubo Shumman, A party in 'Shikian' Restaurant at Nakazu, a diptych of woodblock prints

The fashionable and exclusive Shikian ('Four Seasons') resta…
Manjushri visiting Vimalakirti, ink and colours on paper

This painting shows Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, …
Maruyama okyo, Cracked ice, a 2-fold screen painting

Low two-fold screens ( furosaki byōbu ) such as this we…
Matsuno Chikanobu, Standing courtesan, a hanging scroll painting

In the medieval period in Japan (twelfth-sixteenth centuries…
Miyagawa Choshun, Pastimes of the new year and flower viewing, a pair of handscroll paintings

Although most Ukiyo-e artists concentrated on the theatre an…
Monk seated in meditation, ink and colours on paper

The cave where the paintings were found sealed up at Mogao, …
Mori Ippo, Pine trees at Maiko-no-Hama beach, a pair of 6-fold screen paintings

Maiko-no-Hama beach is on the coast of the Inland Sea not fa…

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