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National Gallery of Art

25,727 works

Grey wash drawing of a classical sculpted head in a crested helmet with downcast eyes and coiled hair.

Antique Head with a Helmet

Bust of a Bearded Man Looking Up

Classical Portrait Bust of a Bearded Man

Donkey Stretching a Hind Leg

Pencil sketch of a figure borne aloft by another figure below, with loose hatching behind, by John Flaxman.

Figure Being Transported through the Air

Pencil sketch of a veiled female figure praying, with a head apparition and lion forms sketched around her.

Figure Seen from behind Praying to an Apparition of a Head with Lions Below

Pencil sketch of a man blowing a horn above fallen bodies, with faint swirling figures rising behind him.

Figure Standing over Corpses, Blowing a Horn

John Flaxman, in or after 1795

Pencil sketch on aged paper with several loose studies of standing, seated and draped human figures in varied poses.

Figure Studies

Pencil sketch of a young child in a cap, head turned, resting one hand under the chin.

Head of a Child in a Cap

after John Flaxman Anonymous

Head of a Woman (Theresa Turner?)

Graphite portrait drawing of a woman with curled hair and a direct gaze, on toned paper, by John Flaxman.

Mrs. Susannah Tulk

John Flaxman, c. 1810s

Head of a Woman in a Scarf, Looking Down

Head of a Woman Looking Down (Theresa Turner?)

Pencil sketch of a seated family looking upward, with faint angel figures in the upper left corner.

A Family Addressed by Angels

John Flaxman, late 18th/early 19th century

Pencil study of a triangular pediment with horses and figures, a reconstruction of the Parthenon west pediment by John Flaxma

Study for Reconstruction of West Pediment of the Parthenon

John Flaxman, in or after 1805

Pencil sketch of two nude men chaining a bound figure lying at the bottom, drawn on tan paper.

Otus and Ephialtes Holding Mars Captive

John Flaxman, 1790s

Faint pencil sketches of triumphal arches with a figure on top and small standing figures, on a torn strip of paper.

Studies for a Triumphal Arch Surmounted by Britannia [recto and verso]

John Flaxman, probably 1799

Pencil sketch of three loose groups of dancing figures with raised arms and draped clothing on a torn sheet.

Three Groups of Dancers

Pencil sketch on paper with faint architectural studies, a small temple, a standing classical figure, and scattered figure sk

Sheet of Architectural and Figure Studies

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of fighting warriors and figures in various poses, marked with the number 36.

Sheet of Sketches, including Two Warriors Fighting

Pencil sketch of several draped, hooded figures on pale paper, with faint architectural studies at upper right.

Sketches with a Hooded Figure (Virgil and Beatrice?)

Pencil drawing of a muscular male nude statue standing on a pedestal before bare tree branches.

Statue of a Male Nude before a Tree

Pencil sketch sheet with a man battling a centaur and smaller studies of a horse and figures.

Sheet of Studies, including a Man Battling a Centaur

Grey wash drawing of a design for a monument with an armored knight, heraldic shield, and arched niche beneath.

Design for a Monument

Pen and wash drawing of a neoclassical sideboard with winged figures, a laurel wreath, a horse-relief shield and urns.

Study for Decorations of Buckingham Palace

John Flaxman, 1820/1826

Pencil sketch sheet with several studies of classical funerary monuments, niches, relief figures and a sarcophagus.

Studies for a Monument

Pen sketch of robed women, an armored knight, a striding figure and a small crouching figure on pale paper.

Study for Pilgrim's Progress (?)

Pencil design sketch of a Gothic monument with a central shield and two standing draped figures flanking it.

Design for the Simcoe Monument, Exeter Cathedral

John Flaxman, c. 1814

Pencil sketch sheet with several studies of kneeling and seated women in loose contour lines and handwritten notes.

Studies of Women Kneeling

Pen and ink sketch of a central seated figure surrounded by reclining figures, with smaller figure studies below.

Study of Neptune and Sea Creatures (?)

Pen sketch of a nude figure reclining with one arm raised over the head and a leg extended, on aged paper.

Study of a Semi-Reclining Figure

Pencil sketch of two figures with arms outstretched, reaching toward each other across pale paper.

Two Airborne? Figures Reaching out to One Another

Pencil sketch of two nude male figures wrestling, with loose construction lines and entwined arms on pale paper.

Two Fighting Figures

Pencil sketch of a draped classical figure with raised arm above a stepped stone base, faint architectural outlines behind.

Two Greek Classical Figures

John Flaxman, in or after 1797

Pen and ink drawing with graphite underlay showing two male nude figures seen from above, overlapping in loose contour lines.

Two Male Nudes seen from Above

Pencil sketch of a frightened man looking up, a woman, and children reclining at the lower edge of the page.

Frightened Man Looking Up; Woman and Children

after John Flaxman Anonymous

Pencil and wash sketch of a reclining man in a hat above a looser study of two seated women on tan paper.

Reclining Man; Two Women

Two Women's Heads

Pencil and grey wash sketch sheet with a standing draped warrior, a child, and several smaller figures.

Sheet of Studies, including Warrior with Child [recto and verso]

Etching of a sick room with a woman leaning over a bed, another woman standing at left beside a candlestick.

Woman Weeping in a Sick Room

Frédéric Florian after Jean-Louis Forain, 1890s

Oval lithographic portrait of a man in a dark high-collared coat and white cravat, with printed caption below.

Jean Charles Persil

after Louis-Pierre Froment after Honoré Daumier

Etching of a country road with thatched huts, large dark trees on the right, and two walking figures near a gate.

Landscape - Trees, Road, Huts

Illuminated choir book leaf with square musical notation on red staff lines and decorated red and blue initials.

Saints Peter and Paul

Ludovico Gaci, 1489

Lithograph of a rider and a horse team pulling a covered wagon up a snowy road toward a village with a church spire.

Wagoner Climbing a Hill (Roulier montant une cote)

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Engraving of two apprentices fighting in a vaulted workshop with an anvil, tools, and a forge fire.

Two Apprentices Fighting

Jean de Gourmont

Engraving of a crowd before classical columns, a woman with a chain reaching toward a seated man clasped by a kneeling figure

Quoi donc, les vrais Chretiens auraient tant de vertu!

Antoine-Jean Duclos after Hubert François Gravelot

Engraving of a crowned figure seated above a fallen armored warrior, with cupids and a laurel branch near a tree.

Regne, dit-il, triomphe, et sois en tout mon fils

Jean Charles Levasseur after Hubert François Gravelot

Engraving of a bearded king pointing at a couple in a columned hall with smoking urn and onlookers, French caption below.

Tremblez malheureux Roi, votre régne est passé

Jean Charles Levasseur after Hubert François Gravelot

Engraving of armored soldiers and a woman in a gown on a classical colonnaded street with shields and spears.

Ciel! ô ciel! qui vois-je à ses côtés?

Jean Charles Levasseur after Hubert François Gravelot

Etching of a windswept hillside with bent trees, a dead tree at right, and billowing clouds above.

Dragons

Etching of windswept trees with twisted branches under a stormy sky over an open landscape.

El Toro

Sepia engraving of stone lime kilns on a rocky shore with a sailboat on calm water and hills in the distance.

Lime Kilns, View in Cumberland

John Hassell, 1803

Etching of two men and a woman in 18th-century dress beside a bookcase in a library interior.

Frontispiece for "La Reliure française"

Edmond Hédouin, 1879

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a cap and chain collar, with Latin inscriptions and a decorative border, 1548.

Doctor Stephen Schwartz

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1548

Engraved 1644 map of England with compass rose, ships, royal portrait medallions border and shire catalogue table.

A New and Exact Mappe of England

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat with curled white hair, before a draped curtain and buildings.

Benjamin West

Thomas Holloway

Engraved heraldic rose diagram of shields arranged in petals beneath a crown, with portrait medallions and Latin inscriptions

Talbot's Rose: A Record of the Knights of the Garter, 1486-1589

Jodocus Hondius I after Thomas Talbot, 1589

Engraving of a bearded sea god with a laurel crown beside a horned sea creature, a putto with a torch, in an ornate border.

Mythological Marine Subject

Lambert Hopfer after Nicoletto da Modena, 1520-1550

Etching of a historic house with dormer windows and columned porch, framed by clipped boxwood hedges and a brick path.

Williamsburg, Coke-Garrett Boxwood Garden

Etching of the Ludwell-Paradise House in Williamsburg, showing a shingled two-story building framed by large trees and a stre

Williamsburg, Ludwell-Paradise House

Etching of the Old Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg with dormer windows, chimneys, a picket fence and large trees.

Williamsburg, Old Raleigh Tavern

Dark etching of a ruined castle on a hill above rocky terrain, with broken arches and a stormy hatched sky.

Landscape

Hugo Victor, 1868

Engraved portrait of King Henry VII in ermine robes with crown, orb, sceptre, a cherub and a medallion of Elizabeth of York.

King Henry VII

James Hulett after George Vertue

Lithograph of a cobbled village street with a church spire, stone houses, carts and logs, and steep mountains behind.

Entrée du village des Bains

Eugène Isabey and Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri, 1831