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Mori Yoshitoshi, Mie o kiru ('Posturize'), a stencil print

The prints of Mori Yoshitoshi (1898-1992) show influences fr…
Moritoshi, Courtesan in a white kimono, a hanging scroll painting

A high-ranked courtesan strolls elegantly through the street…
Okumura Masanobu, Courtesans as Three Sake Drinkers, a woodblock print

This illustration is a parody of a well-known classical pain…
Painted and coloured paper flowers

These six paper flowers must be among the earliest examples …
Qian Xuan, Young nobleman on horseback, a handscroll painting

Qian Xuan (about 1235-1300) was a scholar-official from Wuxi…
Sketches for illustrations to the Vimalakirtinirdesha Sutra, ink and colours on paper

This long strip comprises three sheets of paper pasted toget…
Stencil for a five-figure Buddha group, painting on paper

This stencil (or pounce) is one of very few to survive, and …
Sugimura Jihei (attributed to), 'Tokiwa at Fushimi' (Fushimi Tokiwa), a woodblock print

Very few large sheet-prints survive by the pioneering print …
Suminoe Buzen, Mt Fuji and Shiraito Falls, a hanging scroll painting

Beneath Mt. Fuji, the most famous and celebrated mountain in…
Talisman of the Pole Star, ink and colours on paper

The lower section of this painting is occupied by Chinese wr…
Toshusai Sharaku, The Actors Nakamura Wadaemon and Nakamura Konozo, a woodblock print

The artist Tōshūsai Sharaku worked for a only a br…
Travelling monk, ink and colours on paper

This painting shows a travelling monk, wearing a hat, holdin…
Tsubaki Chinzan, Flowers and Plants in the Style of Chen Shun, a handscroll painting

The artist Tsubaki Chinzan (1801-54) was a pupil of the bun…
Utagawa Hiroshige, 'Suido Bridge and Surugadai' (Suidobashi Surugadai), a colour woodblock print

The kites are for the Boy's Festival on the 5th day of the f…
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, A farewell surimono for Ichikawa Danjuro VIII, a colour woodblock print

This print marks the occasion of the actor Danjūrō…
Utagawa Toyoharu (attributed to), Courtesans of the Tamaya House, a screen painting

This rare six-fold screen can be firmly attributed to Utagaw…
Vaishravana with attendants, a woodblock print on paper

This is one of the earliest dated examples of printing. The …
Varaha with Bhu, gouache on paper

In the third of his ten incarnations ( avatara ) Vishnu appe…
Water-Moon Guanyin, ink and colours on paper

Guanyin, the Chinese name for Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisat…
Wen Zhengming, Wintry Trees, a hanging scroll painting

Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) was the leading scholar-amateur pa…
Xu You and Qao Fu, a 2-fold screen painting

According to a Chinese legend, when the emperor Gyo heard ab…
Yun Baek-ha (Yun Sun), a calligraphic handscroll

Calligraphy has always been regarded as one of the highest f…
Bill of exchange

Bills of exchange evolved with the growth of banking in Euro…
Cheque of Barclay's Bank

This simple unissued cheque tells part of the history of a w…
Deposit book, cheque book and bank card for the Bank of Hell

A strong belief in the afterworld is found in Chinese commun…
General Claude-Auguste Court's book of coin rubbings

After the defeat of Napoleon I, Claude-Auguste Court (1793-1…
George Cruikshank, Bank Restriction Note, a satirical note

In Britain the act of forgery, or sometimes even just the us…
Handwritten cheque for an account with Abraham Fowler, goldsmith

By the late seventeenth century legal clerks, merchants and …
Silver dollar note issued by the Hu-peh Government Mint

Touch the animation button on the left for a translation of …
1000 franc note

The strong images and glorious colours of this note reflect …
Koh Ah Bah, Paper effigies

Replicas of motorbikes, telephones, money and other symbols …
Cape jasmine (Gardenia florida), an engraving

Natural historians travelled on many of the voyages of explo…
'Ali Omar Ermes, the letter kaf, ink on paper

To this day the versatile Arabic alphabet remains a source o…
Manohar (attributed to), Emperor Jahangir weighing his son Khurram in gold, an album-painting in gouache on paper

This scene illustrates an event in 1607 described in the Mug…
Manohar, Emperor Jahangir receiving his two sons, an album-painting in gouache on paper

Emperor Jahangir (reigned 1605-27) sits under a richly-decor…
Mir Afzal of Tun, A reclining woman and her lapdog, a painting

A woman lies back against cushions, lazily watching her dog …
Muhammad Qasim (attributed to), A picnic at night, a drawing

A party is taking place at night. A prince sits against a tr…
Riza-yi 'Abbasi, Seated calligrapher, a drawing

A bearded man sits on the ground, holding a blank book in hi…
Sultan Muhammad (attributed to), Rustam sleeps while Rakhsh fights off a lion, a painting in gouache on paper

The Shahnama , or Book of Kings, is the national epic of Per…
The death of the hero Rustam and his horse Rakhsh, a painting in gouache on paper

This painting belongs to a Shahnama manuscript that was prod…
The prophet Elijah rescuing Hamza's nephew, Prince Nur ad-Dahr, a painting in gouache on cotton

The Hamzanama ('Book of Hamza'), is a heroic romance about t…
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence, a page from a manuscript

The archangel Gabriel is an important figure to Muslims, as …
Agnolo Bronzino, Study of a Standing Man, a study in chalk

Although Bronzino (1503-1572) specialized as a portrait pain…
Agostino Carracci, St Jerome, an unfinished engraving

This unfinished plate (unsigned here but signed on state IV)…
Albrecht Dürer and others, The Triumphal Arch, woodcut

The Triumphal Arch is one of the largest prints ever produce…
Albrecht Dürer, Design for a Gothic Table Fountain

This large drawing is drawn in pen and brown ink with waterc…
Albrecht Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, a woodcut portrait

When Maximilian of Austria (1459-1519) was elected Holy Roma…
Albrecht Dürer, Head of the dead Christ, a drawing

This dramatic drawing of the dead Christ is made in charcoal…
Albrecht Dürer, Hercules, a woodblock and woodcut

The scroll at the top of this woodcut identifies the subject…
Albrecht Dürer, St Jerome in his Study, a copperplate engraving

The lion and cardinal's hat allow us to identify the figure …
Albrecht Dürer, St Jerome seated near a pollard willow, a drypoint

Dürer only made three drypoints in his career, which probabl…
Albrecht Dürer, The Rhinoceros, a drawing and woodcut

The ruler of Gujarat, Sultan Muzafar II (1511-26) had presen…
Albrecht Dürer, The Sun, the Moon and a Basilisk, a drawing

This small drawing is a fragment cut out of an original manu…
Albrecht Dürer, Woman of Nuremberg, a drawing

This brush drawing in watercolour is a study for the woman's…
Anders Zorn, Antonin Proust, an etching

Antonin Proust (1832-1905) was a critic, art historian and c…
Andrea Mantegna, Allegory of Vice and Virtue, a drawing

This unfinished drawing forms the upper half of a compositio…
Andrea Mantegna, Madonna and Child, a copperplate engraving

Mantegna was the first great Italian painter to take engravi…
Andrea Mantegna, St James on his way to Execution, a drawing

This is the earliest surviving drawing by Mantegna. As a you…
Andrea Mantegna, The Calumny of Apelles, a drawing

The drawing was done in three shades of brown ink with some …
Andrea Verrocchio, Head of a Woman, a drawing

This is one of several drawings, including one on the revers…
Annibale Carracci, An Angel Playing a Violin, a drawing

This musical angel drawn in red chalk is a study for a figur…
Annibale Carracci, The Drunken Silenus, design for the Tazza Farnese

The subject is taken from classical myth. Set against a sket…
Anthony van Dyck, Orazio Gentileschi, a portrait drawing

This drawing was made to prepare an engraving in a series, k…
Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait, an etching

This famous self-portrait captures the immediacy of an autog…
Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel , a portrait drawing

Thomas Howard (1585-1646), Earl of Arundel, was fully aware …
Antoine Watteau, Four studies of a young woman's head, a drawing

These studies are drawn from a live model. Watteau has used …
Antonio Correggio, Study for Eve, a red chalk drawing

In 1522 Correggio (about 1489-1534) was commissioned to pain…
Antony Gormley, Attendant, a black and grey ink wash drawing

This drawing belong to a series from the first half of the 1…

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