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English & British

17,585 works

Engraved portrait of a seated man with a portfolio beside a plaster bust, easel, and painter's palette in a studio.

Portrait of Washington Allston

Johnson Fry, 1860

Pencil drawing of a river valley with palm trees, hills, distant buildings and wooded cliffs.

South American Landscape

W. Stubbs, n.d.

Black-and-white print of a factory worker in a cap operating machinery beneath diagonal steel beams and gears.

Building Aircraft: Making the Engine

C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917

Hondekop

John Sargeant Noble, 1858

Six painted figs in yellow, green, blue and purple tones arranged in two columns on a brown background with cast shadows.

Pomona Britannica: No. 74 - Figs

Richard Brookshaw, 1807, published 1812

Hand-colored satirical print of an older man in a academic cap embracing a woman by a fireplace, with onlookers at a window.

A Man of Feeling

Thomas Rowlandson, published December 2, 1811

Child Holding a Doll

John Downman, 1780

Hand-colored print of a woman in a yellow dress swinging between trees while onlookers in period dress watch below.

Rural Sports, or How to Show Off a Well-shaped Leg

Thomas Rowlandson, published October 1811

Miss Mary Cruikshank, only sister of James Cruikshank

John Downman, 1781

Portrait of a young boy in a blue double-breasted jacket with a calm sea and distant ship behind him.

Memento Portrait of a Young Midshipman

John Downman, 1769-1824

Drawing of three children with a kite, a girl seated in a cart, and a boy in a brown coat under a tree, in an oval vignette.

The Dyson Children

John Downman, 1787

Elizabeth Ford, later Lady Colville of Culross

John Downman, 1785

Oval drawing of a woman in a pale gown holding a dove beside a tree trunk, in soft tan and blue tones.

Isabella Hunter, Cousin of the Artist

John Downman, 1781

Drawing of a seated woman in a white dress with her hand on a girl in a bonnet holding a flower basket, under a tree.

Mrs. Morgan and her Child

John Downman, 1785

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in ornate dark military uniform with gold braid and medals, holding a plumed cap.

Portrait of James Thomas Brudenell

Daniel John Pound, 1850

Mrs. Palmer

John Downman, 1785

Thomas Jackson

John Downman, 1780

Graphite portrait of a man in a buttoned coat and cravat, turned to the left, with hair tied back.

Captain Downman, the artist's brother

John Downman, ca. 1776

Sepia mezzotint of a bearded man in a fur-collared robe in a barred cell with children and grieving figures, by John Boydell.

Ugolino in Prison (after Reynolds)

John Boydell, 1770

Mrs. Downman, sister-in-law of the artist

John Downman, 1776

Pen and watercolor drawing of a busy street with advertising hoardings and a large sandwich-board man labeled Monster Adverti

Lilthorpe's Gallant Attack on Street, Nuisances

John Leech, 1830

Pencil sketch of two large bare trees over a woodland scene with figures near a tent and cattle on a path.

Landscape with cattle and figures; sketch for the Rustic Courtship

Gainsborough Dupont, 1755-97

Pencil drawing of Achilles reaching toward the ghostly shade of Patroclus floating above him among clouds.

Achilles and the Shade of Patroclus

John Flaxman, 1793

Pen and ink sketch sheet on blue paper with figure studies including a helmeted warrior, winged figures and seated men.

Sheet of Sketches

John Flaxman, 1793

Pencil sketch of a title page with a theatrical mask, lettering, and a draped figure with a staff beside a reclining figure.

Sketch for the Title-Page of an Edition of Aeschylus

John Flaxman, 1793

Pencil drawing of Dante and Virgil in a wood of bare trees, with winged harpies and a figure in a trunk, from Inferno canto 1

Dante and Virgil in the Suicidal Wood (Inferno, Canto 13, verses 22-23)

John Flaxman, 1792-93

Pencil sketch of classical female figures with flowing drapery and radiating light lines above cloud forms.

Morning: Pope's Odyssey, Book 12 (recto); Study for the final drawing (verso)

John Flaxman, 1792

Pencil drawing of Night and Sleep under a starry sky, with Jupiter in a chariot above, by John Flaxman.

Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter - "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven),…

John Flaxman, 1793

Pencil drawing of two armored warriors fighting with spear and shield beside a winged archer drawing a bow.

Illustration for "Seven Chiefs Against Thebes" (recto); Studies of Figures (verso)

John Flaxman, ca. 1794

Grey wash drawing of a classical frieze with bearded men, draped women, nude youths, a horse and two lion heads.

Design for a Frieze, after a Roman Sarcophagus: The First Visit of Bacchus to Ariadne

John Flaxman, late 18th-early 19th century

Pen and wash sketch of a kneeling woman embracing a standing figure in draped robes, with faint tree and figure studies at ri

Sheet of studies with female figure kneeling and embracing standing figure

John Flaxman, 1775-1826

Engraved view of the Tuileries Palace with soldiers on parade, a carriage, and crowds in the foreground, 1800.

View of the Tuilleries Palace, Paris

John Pye the younger, 1800