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Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man in a lace collar and period dress, with a second figure at upper right.

Study of a Gentleman in 17th Century Costume, After Van Dyck

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1827

Brown wash drawing of two standing figures in period costume beside a seated man at a draped table.

Goetz Von Berlichingen Before The Imperial Magistrate

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1826

Pencil sketch of Moses and Aaron before a crowd of kneeling and reclining figures, one raising a staff.

Moses Striking the Rock (Numbers 20:11)

Richard Westall, 1835

Pencil sketch of Moses holding a staff beside stone tablets on a cloudy mountain, with a crowd gesturing below.

Moses Bringing the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:29)

Richard Westall, 1835

Pencil sketch of sailors throwing a bearded man overboard into rough sea beside a rising sea monster.

Jonah Cast Into the Sea (Jonah 1:15)

Richard Westall, 1835

Pencil sketch of a winged angel pointing at a kneeling warrior in a plumed helmet, with tents and hills behind them.

Joshua and the Angel (Joshua 5:13)

Richard Westall, 1835

Pencil sketch of an archer drawing a bow in a room while a bedridden bearded man points and robed figures watch.

Elisha on His Death-Bed (II Kings 12:17)

Richard Westall, 1835

Pencil sketch of Christ standing among a crowd beside a bier, with a veiled woman kneeling in the foreground.

Christ Raising the Widow's Son (Luke 7:13-16)

Richard Westall, 1836

Pencil sketch of a standing robed man facing a kneeling veiled woman reaching toward him in a wooded garden.

Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene (John 20:13-14)

Richard Westall, 1836

Pencil sketch of a village among tall trees, with thatched cottages and small figures in the foreground.

A Village in a Wood

Thomas Girtin, 1796

Watercolor of Corinthian temple ruins with a shepherd, sheep, and a woman in blue in the foreground.

Tempio d' Antonio e Faustina

Thomas Girtin, 1798

Pen and ink drawing of a skeleton wrestling a man to the ground, with a faint sketched shield in the upper right corner.

George Taylor's Epitaph: Death Giving George Taylor a Cross Buttock

William Hogarth, 1750

Black chalk drawing of a reclining female nude resting her arm on a rock, legs stretched diagonally across the sheet.

Study of a Female Nude

William Hogarth

Moonlit landscape with cattle at a pool, leaning trees, a standing figure and a distant cottage, drawn in chalk on brown pape

A Moonlit Landscape with Cattle by a Pool

Thomas Gainsborough, 1780

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man with curly hair, a lace collar and dark cloak, labelled Francesco Cleyn.

Francesco Cleyn

Thomas Chambers, 1750