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Saint Bartholomew (recto); Study of Drapery and Two Hands (verso)

Carlo Bononi, 1569-1632

Charcoal study of a reclining nude man, a horse head, a rearing horse, and a draped female figure on toned paper.

Sketch for War, painting in the Museum of Picardy at Amiens

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, ca. 1861

Pen and ink study on toned paper of a standing draped figure holding a candlestand, with a woman's head and other figure sket

Studies: Figure Holding a Candlestand, Woman with Left Arm Extended, Head Looking Down towards the Right, Kneeling Woman

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Drawing of two heads in brown wash with white highlights: a young man with wavy hair and a bearded older man, both gazing upw

Heads of Two Saints

Pietro Perugino, 1495-1510

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of several armed men holding large shields and spears, standing close together on brown paper

Armed Men

Edward Burne-Jones, 1855-98

Portrait of a man

Thomas Frye (, 1760

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed mourners around a figure on a tomb in a vaulted church interior.

Raymond Diocrès Speaking During His Funeral (from the Life of Saint Bruno of Cologne)

Daniele Crespi, 1628-29

Watercolor and pen drawing of peasants drinking in a smoky tavern, with a seated woman holding a glass and men around a table

Peasants Drinking, verso: sketches of peasants

Adriaen van Ostade, 1610-85

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed woman before a seated man, with a kneeling woman, flames, books and onlookers.

The Cumaean Sibyl before Tarquin the Proud

Niccolò dell' Abate, 16th century

Brown ink drawing of a lively tavern scene with feasting men, women in ruffs, and musicians playing violin and cello.

The Prodigal Son Squanders his Fortune with Prostitutes

Augustin Braun, late 16th-mid-17th century

Brown ink drawing of an elderly man in a wide hat and ruffled collar holding a paper, beside a stone wall.

Portrait of Jan Hus

Christoffel van Sichem, mid-16th-early 17th century

Charcoal and chalk study of a man looking upward with a woman behind him, raised hands visible, on tan paper.

A male and a female figures (study for 'Golgotha')

Otto Greiner, late 19th-early 20th century

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a crowned rider on horseback leading a crowd of figures past an arched gateway.

The Women of Weinsberg

Otto van Veen, late 16th-early 17th century

Pencil drawing of an ornamental brass lock plate with scrollwork, birds, rosettes, and a central keyhole.

Ornamental Brass Lock, 1579

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Pencil drawing of two symmetrical ornamental panels with scrollwork and oval cartouches showing a crown and a flower urn unde

Ornament Designs on Two Panels, the Central Cartouches Decorated with Tents

Richardson Ellson & Co., ca. 1880

Colored pencil drawing of a bishop saint in mitre and ornate red cope holding a red pastoral staff.

Saint Ambrose. Copy of a wall painting from the Church of the Holy Cross in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896

Pencil design sheet with side, rear and front views of a wooden armchair, with dimensions and a red-shaded upholstered panel.

Design of an armchair for the Żeleński family

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Sheet of pen and ink studies showing a rearing horse, a male torso, several heads, and a draped standing figure.

Sheet of Studies

Unknown artist, late 16th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John, seated near a palm tree in a landscape.

Holy Family with Infant Saint John

Luca Cambiaso, c. 1562/1563

Brown wash drawing of reclining nude naiads and dolphins among clouds, with a male figure at left.

Naiads and Dolphins

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1762/1765

Brown ink drawing of an arched niche design with a nude female figure, flanking atlantes, a coat of arms and a shell basin.

A Design for a Wall Decoration or Fountain

Cherubino Alberti, 1590s?

Black chalk drawing of a standing nude man with curly hair, gazing upward, one arm behind him against a tree.

Study of a Standing Male Nude: Saint Sebastian

Jacopo Confortini, mid-17th century

Aged parchment manuscript page with two columns of brown Gothic handwriting and faint coloured margins.

Meeting of Achilles and Hector

Master of Girart de Roussillon, c. 1450 - 1460

Etching of a seated reader with dogs, a winged angel pointing to heaven, an eagle, and a verse caption below.

Illustration for Edward Benlowes, Theophila

after Francis Barlow, published 1652

Brown ink and wash drawing of The Last Supper, with seated figures at a long table in a vaulted, ornamented hall.

The Last Supper

Chalk drawing on tan paper of a young child in a frilled bonnet looking upward, with white highlights on the face and collar.

Head of a Child

Unknown artist, 1720/1740

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds while robed apostles gather around a stone tomb below.

The Assumption of the Virgin

Follower of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Morazzone

Pen and brown ink drawing of Bacchus with an ivy wreath and Ceres with grain beside him in a shadowed cave.

Bacchus and Ceres

Jacob de Gheyn II

Sketch of a bearded satyr leaning on a round roundel, drawn in soft graphite on toned paper.

Satyr Holding a Roundel

Annibale Carracci, 1597/1600

Engraved frontispiece with oval portraits of English kings and queens around a central title panel with columns.

Frontispiece

Pen and wash drawing of a woman addressing a crowd in a classical city square with an obelisk and statue.

Disputation of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Federico Zuccaro, probably c. 1570

Pen and brown ink drawing of two vertical grotesque ornament panels with scrolls, vases, masks and winged figures.

Grotteschi