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Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, both with golden halos, against a dark starry sky.

Virgin and Child

William Blake, 1825

Haloed figure rising above a table as two men lean toward it in a dark, dramatically lit scene.

Christ Disappearing at Emmaus

Henry Fuseli, 1792

Pen and ink study with green wash of a bound nude male figure with arms raised, beside a draped cloaked figure.

Study for Saint Sebastian

Pencil and brown wash drawing of a Gothic church east end with arches and pinnacles, with a pack animal and figures on a stre

East End of Saint Jacques at Dieppe, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1819

Head of a Woman, Study for The Bible Lesson

Philippe Mercier, 1743

Graphite drawing of Christ blessing children, with a haloed figure and reaching hands among a crowd of people.

Christ Blessing Little Children

Drawing of carved Romanesque capitals and two bas-relief panels showing knights, religious figures, and animals, by John Sell

Capitals and A & B Bas-Reliefs in the Abbey Church of Saint Georges de Bocherville, near Rouen, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Brown wash drawing of a winged, helmeted figure seated with a staff in a rocky ravine, with a bird flying overhead.

The Archangel Gabriel Awaiting Night

Thomas Girtin, 1799

Pencil and blue-tinted drawing of an inverted nude male figure with arms raised, on cream paper.

An Angel with a Trumpet

William Blake, 1805

Grey wash drawing of a Romanesque church interior showing stacked arcades, columns with carved capitals, and ribbed vaults.

Perspective Elevation of Part of the Abbey Church of Saint Stephen at Caen, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1818

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

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 and brown wash drawing of a fortified building atop a steep rocky cliff, with small figures near an arched gateway.

Part of the Old Fortifications at Saint Lo, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1817

Pencil drawing of a medieval brass with three praying figures, a central man flanked by two women, under gothic canopies.

The Sepulchral Brass of Robert Braunche and His Two Wives in Saint Margaret's Church, Lynn, Norfolk, 1364

John Sell Cotman, 1818

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 a Gothic church porch with a pointed arch, carved capitals and a studded wooden door.

Porch of the Church of Stratton Saint Mary's, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1811

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