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Pen and ink sketch of three jockeys racing horses toward a flag, with spectators at the rail and head studies below.

Three Racehorses Approaching the Winning Post

Pencil sketch of a church porch with arched doorway, timber belfry and thatched roof, with a seated figure at left.

Porch and Belfry of Thurgarton Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1810

Brown wash drawing of foundling children gathering at a doorway, a man holding an infant, ships and a church in the backgroun

Study for the Foundlings

William Hogarth

Pencil drawing of two gnarled ancient trees with spreading branches above rocks beside a lake, on toned paper.

The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi

Richard Wilson, 1754

Pencil drawing of a Gothic sedilia with tracery arches and stone steps set into a church wall.

A Sedilia in Upwell Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1816

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded man raising a staff toward a winged spirit descending above him, with a crouching figure at

Prospero Summoning Ariel

William Young Ottley, 1800

Pencil sketch of Wormingford Church with a gothic window, a large tree, and a small seated figure by a wall.

Wormingford Church

John Constable, 1813

Pencil sketch of a grassy valley slope leading to distant trees under a cloudy sky.

The Stour Valley

Lionel Bicknell Constable

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a saddled brown horse with a man in a wide-brimmed hat holding its reins behind it.

A Man and a Saddled Horse

Pencil sketch of a cottage beside trees and clouds on pale toned paper, by John Constable.

Study for Cottage in Cornfield, East Bergholt

John Constable, 1833

Grey wash drawing of a hanging lamp above two kneeling figures before a pietà in a dim underground shrine.

An Underground Shrine with Two Figures Kneeling before a Pieta

Ink and wash drawing of a crowd of men in period dress with a trumpeter and a ship with rigging behind them.

Election Scene

Pen and brown ink sketch of a woman with her head resting on her hand, wearing a frilled bonnet.

Study of a Woman with her Head on her Hand

Richard Parkes Bonington

Profile Study of a Young Man

Brown wash drawing of two women in wide-brimmed feathered hats and long striped skirts, one wearing a dark shawl.

The Misses Sandby of Norwich

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

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

A Village in a Wood

Thomas Girtin, 1796

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 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

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

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

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

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