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Utagawa Toyoharu (attributed to), Courtesans of the Tamaya House, a screen painting

This rare six-fold screen can be firmly attributed to Utagaw…
Utagawa Toyokuni, The Kabuki actor Segawa Ronosuke as Shizuka Gozen, a hanging scroll painting

This painting shows the Kabuki female impersonator, Segawa R…
Wen Zhengming, Wintry Trees, a hanging scroll painting

Wen Zhengming (1470-1559) was the leading scholar-amateur pa…
Xie Chufang, Fascination of Nature, a handscroll painting

This is a rare example of a signed and dated painting from t…
'Ali Omar Ermes, the letter kaf, ink on paper

To this day the versatile Arabic alphabet remains a source o…
Lachish Letter I

This is one of a group of letters written on ostraka (pot sh…
Lachish Letter II

This is one of a group of letters written on ostraka (pot sh…
Antonio Pisanello, Three Men Standing, a drawing

An inscription on the drawing, probably contemporary and per…
Antony Gormley, Attendant, a black and grey ink wash drawing

This drawing belong to a series from the first half of the 1…
Aubrey Beardsley, Self-portrait, a pen and ink wash

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) was the most original genius of B…
Baldassare Peruzzi, A Woman and Two Men, an ink drawing

This intriguing pen and ink drawing by the Sienese born arti…
Beatrix Potter, Flopsy Bunnies, a drawing in pen and ink with watercolour

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is among the best-loved of childr…
Christopher Wren, Design for the Dome of St Paul's Catherdral, a drawing in brown ink over pencil

The old St Paul's Cathedral, a medieval Gothic structure, bu…
Gentile Bellini, A Turkish Woman, a drawing

The Venetian government sent Gentile Bellini (about 1435-150…
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Punchinello Carried off by a Centaur, pen and ink sketch

Punchinello is the name of a clown character taken from the …
Giulio Romano, Three Shell-Shaped Salt Cellars, pen and ink wash designs

These three designs for metal, probably silver, salt cellars…
Jacopo de' Barbari, Cleopatra, a drawing and print

This is the only authenticated drawing by the Venetian paint…
Owen Jones, The Great Exhibition, a watercolour with pen and ink

The Great Exhibition (or the International Exhibition of the…
Paolo Veronese, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The subject of this drawing by Veronese (1528-1588), is the …
Paul Sandby, View from the Gardens of Somerset House, Looking East and West, a pen and ink drawing with watercolour

These panoramic drawings by Paul Sandby (1730-1809) were mad…
Perino del Vaga, Vertumnus and Pomona, a drawing

The two central figures of this story are taken from Ovid's …
Pier Francesco Mola, The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, a drawing

This dramatic scene is painted with a broad brush and using …
Pietro da Cortona, Jason Carrying off the Golden Fleece, a drawing

This is one of the finest finished compositional studies in …
Sandro Botticelli, Abundance or Autumn, a drawing

This is one of the most elaborate and beautiful drawings by …
Sir John Everett Millais, Retribution, a pen and ink drawing

Millais (1829-1896) was a child prodigy who became, at the a…
Stefano della Bella, A Fury, a drawing

This sheet is taken from an album of costume studies by the …
Thomas Girtin, Westminster and Lambeth, a drawing

This view of London to the north and south of the River Tham…
Titian, St Eustace or St Hubert, a drawing

The scene is set in a hilly landscape with classical ruins a…
Vincent van Gogh, La Crau from Montmajour, a brown ink drawing over black chalk

In February 1888 Van Gogh (1853-1890) moved to Arles 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…
William Henry Hunt, Bushey Churchyard, a pen and ink drawing with watercolour

'Bird's nest' Hunt (1790-1864) earned his nickname for his s…
Vignette from the Book of the Dead of Nesitanebtashru

This vignette is part of the Greenfield papyrus , the Book …
Taddeo Zuccaro, The Flight into Egypt, a drawing

The study is drawn over black chalk in pen and grey and blac…
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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