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English & British

17,197 works

Woodcut-style print of a nude standing man with a moustache against a pale sky and dark shoreline, by William Nicholson, 1899

Cecil Rhodes

William Nicholson, 1899

Etching of Borthwick Castle from the east, with a tall square tower, a grassy slope, trees, and travelers in the foreground.

Borthwick Castle from the East

John Clerk of Eldin, c. 1770

Etching of two beached fishing boats on a riverbank, one under a tarpaulin, with trees, a jetty and a distant sailboat.

Two Beached Fishing Boats

Cornelius Varley, 1809

Pastel landscape on tan paper showing rolling open ground, dark shrubs and a pale sky with a distant horizon.

Landscape

John Henry Twachtman, after 1890

Lithograph of a rustic farmyard with thatched stone cottages, two figures, pigs, and a wooded hill with a tower.

Lynmouth

Samuel Prout, 1819

Stipple engraving portrait of William Hyde Wollaston, a bald man in a dark coat and white cravat, within an ornate border.

William Hyde Wollaston. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1835, after J. Jackson

Etching of two seated figures and a standing boy with pots beside trees on a rural road.

Tinkers

William Strang, 1882

Sepia-toned wreath of pressed leaves, fern fronds and grass blades on a page with handwritten name and date in the centre.

[Wreath of leaves and branches]

John Wheeley Gough Gutch, about 1857

Engraved caricature of a woman's elaborate back hairstyle with feathers, flowers and pearls, framed by a lace-edged hat.

Oh Heigh Oh or A View of the Back Settlements

Matthew Darly, 1776

Mezzotint of a blacksmith at an anvil in a dim forge, with onlookers, horses, and horseshoes around him.

The Blacksmith

Richard Earlom, 1771

Etching of St. Mark's Piazza in Venice with a winged lion column, clock tower, and moored gondolas in the foreground.

St. Mark's Piazza

Mortimer Menpes, 1910

Etching of the church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice with gondolas moored in the lagoon in the foreground.

San Giorgio Maggiore

Mortimer Menpes, 1910

Stipple engraving of a man in a wig and waistcoat holding a book, set against foliage and a distant hilly landscape.

Thomas Pennant. Stipple engraving by W. H. Lizars, after T. Gainsborough, 1776

Thomas Gainsborough

Mezzotint portrait of a man in a powdered wig and frock coat leaning on a desk with a quill pen and inkwells.

Richard Warren. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1792, after T. Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough

Steel

Leslie Ward, 1866-1922

Graphite study on blue-grey paper of three figures in motion, one reaching forward with outstretched arms, beneath faint red

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Three Figures

John Singleton Copley, 1785-86

Watercolor of a tiered stone tomb with a roofed shrine and finial, framed by tall trees, in brown and gray washes.

The Tomb of Iyeyasu Tokugawa

John La Farge, 1888

Pencil and chalk study of two prone soldiers on grey paper, with handwritten scale notes across the top.

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Two Dead Figures

John Singleton Copley, 1782-83

Stipple engraving of seated Adam Ferguson with white hair, holding a quill pen beside an open book.

Adam Ferguson. Stipple engraving by R. Page, 1824, after Sir J. Reynolds

Joshua Reynolds

Color print of curving multistory London flats with balconies and small pedestrians on a winding street.

London Flats No 2

Cyril Power, c. 1930

Color woodblock print of a river with reflected trees, grazing cattle in a meadow, and a small wooden footbridge at right.

Wiston River

Frank Morley Fletcher, 1911

Engraving of a man with a furious, screaming expression and wild curly hair, framed by swirling drapery.

Evil

William Sharp, 1816

Mezzotint of Democritus and Protagoras: standing bearded man, seated youth, kneeling figure binding sticks, large pine under

Democritus and Protagoras

William Pether, 1778

Color print of two women holding hands in a meadow while a mounted knight with a red banner rides past behind them.

The Passer-By (Le Passant)

Robert Engels, 1897

Lithograph of Assyrian relief showing huntsmen with a gazelle, hare and birds among stylized trees, Plate 32, 1853.

Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 32, Huntsmen with Gazelle, Hare and Birds (Khorsabad)

Austen Henry Layard, 1853

Etching of a Roman patrician's courtyard with classical statues, robed figures, stone steps, and tall trees.

The Days of Ancient Rome: At the House of a Patrician

William Walcot, 1913

Brown wash drawing of four feathered figures on a riverbank, with a city and paddle steamer visible on the water behind them.

Visit to Their Old Hunting Grounds (from Hosack Album)

John Ludlow Morton, ca. 1843

Etching of a windy night waterfront with bent trees, boats on rippling water, and a large lit building.

Windy Night, Stockholm

Muirhead Bone, 1935, published 1936

Lithograph of a steel shipyard crane over a warship in a harbor basin, with workers on barges in the foreground water.

The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals; Building Ships: A Fitting Out Basin

Muirhead Bone, 1917

Sepia print of a Scottish peat bog with workers, a horse and cart, distant mountains, and a turbulent sky.

Peat Bog, Scotland

Frank Short, 1937

Etching of a river town at dusk with a stone arched bridge, a timber house, a church tower, and boats on the water.

Bridgenorth

Frank Short, 1885, published 1888

Sepia engraving of a sailing boat on a moonlit river with a windmill and town silhouetted on the far bank.

Moonlight on the Medway at Chatham

Frank Short, 1920