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Charcoal sketch of a seated female nude with angular outlines and diagonal hatched shading on tan paper.

Woman in the tub

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Brustbild eines jungen Mannes nach links

Pen and brown wash study sheet with angels, kneeling and seated figures, and wing studies for an Annunciation scene.

Studienblatt: Szenen der Verkündigung Mariä

Annibale Carracci

Brown ink and wash drawing of a Bacchic procession with a central nude youth, a tambourine player, a piper and a satyr with g

Bacchantenzug (Triumph des Bacchus)

Pen and ink study on tan paper showing several sketched nude male figures, one standing with a long staff, others seated and

Johannes der Täufer und Christus (?)

Pen and brown wash drawing of Saint Jerome with a crucifix and a lion in a rocky wooded landscape.

Saint Jerome

Chalk drawing of a turbaned man holding a glass and a woman in a headdress pouring wine from a jug.

Zwei Trinkende in Halbfigur

Polidoro da Caravaggio

Brown chalk drawing of a forest path with trees, a rocky bank, and small figures struggling at the lower left.

A forest path, a wanderer is attacked by two men

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Pencil sketch of the Otira Hotel with George Dyer lettered on its front, surrounded by trees and hills, numbered page 73.

Sketch of 'George Dyer Otira Hotel' in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Sketchbook page with smudged graphite figure at center and a pencilled hand outline at upper right.

Sketches in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolour of a curved bay with surf, rocky headlands, wooden fences, small huts and figures on a sandy shore.

Charleston Harbour

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Pencil sketchbook page with handwritten place names and the date 23 January 1891, plus smudged graphite shapes and a stool sk

Inside cover of An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Pencil sketch of a leafy plant with broad overlapping leaves and a flower bud on a sketchbook page.

Plant study in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolour of a harbour town below steep mountains, with sailing ships and a rowing boat on calm water.

Lyttelton, 1858

Pencil sketch of a winding road over rough hillside with scrubby shrubs and bare branches, from a sketchbook page.

Sketch of road from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman reading a book with a child leaning on her shoulder, on a sketchbook page.

Pair of seated figures indoors in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor of Welsh mountains above a valley river with a stone bridge, figures on the bank, and grazing cattle.

Welsh mountains

Pen and brown ink drawing of a man in a feathered cap riding a pig and carrying a wine jug, with a landscape behind.

Gluttony

Jan Swart van Groningen, 1510

Pen and brown ink drawing of a busy forge with blacksmiths at an anvil and a furnace on the right, dated 1548.

Scene in a forge

Jan Verbeeck, 1548

Oil study of a still lake with rocky shore, a pointed mountain and distant ridges under a glowing evening sky.

Mounts Katahdin and Turner from Lake Katahdin, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1855

Charcoal sketch on a sketchbook page showing a large female head, a seated figure below, and faint studies beside them.

Woman's head and seated figure

Historic 1631 print: map of Santvliet and surrounding polders with a top panorama of sailing ships in battle.

Pas-caert vande ghelegentheyt vande Schans te Santvliet

Claes Janszoon Visscher II, 1631

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of a seated nude woman with crossed legs, plus a small study of a foot, on brown paper.

Seated Nude and a Foot

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1920

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly woman leaning over a table, working with pins and fabric in a plain interior.

Old Woman Working

Théodule Augustin Ribot, 1860

Chalk drawing of Diana seated beside the sleeping Endymion, with a cupid above and a dog at right.

Diana and Endymion

Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1720

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd beneath a canopy, with a mitred bishop at center and turbaned figures at left.

The Deliverance of the Demoniac of Constantinople by Saint John Chrysostom

Elisabetta Sirani, 1659

Head of a Woman

Federico Barocci, 1584

Pen and wash drawing of soldiers killing infants and mothers among classical columns, with bodies on the ground.

The Massacre of the Innocents

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 1635

Jane Avril

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin crowned in heaven by Christ and God the Father, with angels and saints below.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Palma il Giovane, 1585

Brown wash drawing of a Gothic cathedral aisle with vaulted arches and robed figures near an altar.

Monks in a Cathedral

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun

Black chalk drawing of a youth's head and shoulders turned upward, with hatched drapery and curling hair on toned paper.

Bust of a Youth Looking Upward [recto]

Luca Signorelli, 1500