Museum Exhibition

Catalogue of Works

Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection

National Gallery of Art

81 documented works

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Boys, Thomas Shotter

A Street in Chartres

1836

watercolor with gouache with scraping over touches of graphite

sheet: 29 × 1.6 cm (11 7/16 × 5/8 in.)

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Barton, Ezekiel

A Cliff Overhung with Trees

early 19th century

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 54 × 37.1 cm (21 1/4 × 14 5/8 in.) mount: 61.8 × 48.4 cm (24 5/16 × 19 1/16 in.)

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Middleton, John

A Country Lane

c. 1850

watercolor and gouache on wove paper

sheet: 33.3 × 48.7 cm (13 1/8 × 19 3/16 in.)

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Richmond, George

A Farm near the Sea at Margate, Kent

1850

watercolor over graphite with gum arabic

sheet: 17.9 × 26.2 cm (7 1/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

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Callow, William

A Gondola on the Grand Canal, Venice

1866

watercolor over graphite with gouache on wove paper, laid down

sheet: 45.4 × 35.5 cm (17 7/8 × 14 in.)

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Place, Francis

A Grotto (The Stables of the Villa Maecenas, Tivoli?)

c. 1700

pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

sheet: 18.9 × 34 cm (7 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

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Varley, Cornelius

A House, West Humble Lane, Norbury, Surrey

1806

watercolor and graphite on wove paper

sheet: 25.2 × 38.5 cm (9 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.)

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Cosway, Richard

A Man Trapped between a Lion and a Serpent

1790s

pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper, laid down on an old mount

sheet: 22.7 × 18.9 cm (8 15/16 × 7 7/16 in.) mount: 40.7 × 33.8 cm (16 × 13 5/16 in.)

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Gainsborough, Thomas

A Rocky Wooded Landscape with a Figure by a Stream

1781

black and gray wash with pen and black ink on tan laid paper

overall: 28.5 × 40.2 cm (11 1/4 × 15 13/16 in.)

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Payne, William

A Ruined Abbey by a Waterfall

c. 1800

watercolor and gouache with graphite on wove paper

sheet: 21.1 × 29.2 cm (8 5/16 × 11 1/2 in.)

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Alexander, William

A Scene in an Historical Play Exhibited on the Chinese Stage

1795

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 23.6 × 35 cm (9 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.) mount: 30.4 × 42.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 9/16 in.)

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Wilson, Richard

A View in Italy with Mountains in the Distance

c. 1754

chalk and stumping, heightened with white gouache on buff paper

sheet: 27.7 × 42.7 cm (10 7/8 × 16 13/16 in.)

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Hoppner, John

A Young Boy Seated Beneath a Tree

c. 1790s/1810

red and black chalk with brush and gray and black ink

framed: 27.94 × 22.86 cm (11 × 9 in.)

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Rowbotham, Thomas Leeson

American Scene

c. 1832/1835

gray wash with scratching out on wove paper

sheet: 20 × 27.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 in.) mount: 25.7 × 34.4 cm (10 1/8 × 13 9/16 in.)

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Cozens, Alexander

An Extensive River Landscape

c. 1759

pen and black ink with gray and black wash, varnished

overall: 28.6 x 40.7 cm (11 1/4 x 16 in.)

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Fuseli, Henry

An Intimate Concert

1814

graphite on laid paper

sheet: 27.94 × 20 cm (11 × 7 7/8 in.)

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Mortimer, John Hamilton

Beatrice

1776

etching on wove paper

plate: 40.5 × 33 cm (15 15/16 × 13 in.) sheet: 54 × 38.5 cm (21 1/4 × 15 3/16 in.)

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Mortimer, John Hamilton

Beatrice

1775/1776

pen and black ink on laid paper, laid down on old mount

sheet: 33 × 27 cm (13 × 10 5/8 in.)(oval)

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Landseer, Edwin, Sir

Contending Group after Nature [A Lion Fighting a Tiger and a Leopard]

1822

pen and black and brown ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, mounted

sheet: 17.2 × 22.7 cm (6 3/4 × 8 15/16 in.)

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Callow, William

Corso Sant' Anastasia with the Palazzo Maffei in Verona

1855

graphite and pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink, with watercolor and gouache and gum arabic over graphite on thick wove paper (laid on early wove card)

sheet: 74 × 58.6 cm (29 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.)

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Turner of Oxford, William

Dawn in the Valley

1832

watercolor with scratching out and gum arabic on wove paper

overall: 74.93 × 108.59 cm (29 1/2 × 42 3/4 in.)

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Sandby, Paul

Derwentwater

late 18th century

watercolor on wove paper

overall: 28.2 × 43.8 cm (11 1/8 × 17 1/4 in.)

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De Wint, Peter

Dieppe Cathedral

1828

watercolor with touches of gouache over traces of graphite on wove paper, laid down

sheet: 30.2 × 46.2 cm (11 7/8 × 18 3/16 in.) mount: 38.6 × 54.6 cm (15 3/16 × 21 1/2 in.)

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Hearne, Thomas

Durham Castle and Framwellgate Bridge from the Banks of the River Wear

after 1778

watercolor over graphite on wove paper, laid down

sheet: 20.3 × 25.6 cm (8 × 10 1/16 in.) mount: 22 × 27.7 cm (8 11/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

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Müller, William James

Eel Bucks at Goring

c. 1843

watercolor on wove paper

sheet (top corners rounded off): 36.1 × 53.8 cm (14 3/16 × 21 3/16 in.)

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Constable, John

Epsom Heath

1806

brown, gray, and green watercolor over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 15.5 × 24 cm (6 1/8 × 9 7/16 in.) mount: 21.3 × 30 cm (8 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

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Farmer, Emily

Gentle Critics (The Portfolio)

1872

watercolor over traces of graphite with gum arabic and white gouache on wove paper

sheet: 50.8 × 36.83 cm (20 × 14 1/2 in.)

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Cox, David

Grotto Interior

c. 1850

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 41.9 × 57.1 cm (16 1/2 × 22 1/2 in.)

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Towne, Francis

Hampstead Heath, Evening Light

1800

pen and black ink with gray and blue-gray wash over graphite on laid paper

sheet: 22.2 × 36.7 cm (8 3/4 × 14 7/16 in.) mount: 28.4 × 42 cm (11 3/16 × 16 9/16 in.)

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De Wint, Peter

Harrowing--View near the Cross Fells

c. 1840

watercolor and gouache with scratching out on wove paper

sheet: 29.2 × 45.5 cm (11 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.) mount: 38.4 × 52.1 cm (15 1/8 × 20 1/2 in.)

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Chinnery, George

Head of a Man

c. 1810/1825

graphite and watercolor on laid paper

sheet: 12 × 18.7 cm (4 3/4 × 7 3/8 in.)

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Lewis, John Frederick

Head of a Spanish Monk

1832/1834

watercolor and chalk over graphite, heightened with gouache, on buff wove paper, laid down

sheet: 25.9 × 204 cm (10 3/16 × 80 5/16 in.) mount: 35 × 29.6 cm (13 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)

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Le Piper, Francis

Head Study of a Preacher

c. 1670

pen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper

sheet: 12.4 × 9.1 cm (4 7/8 × 3 9/16 in.) mount: 20.8 × 17.9 cm (8 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

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Bonington, Richard Parkes

Honfleur

c. 1821

brown wash over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 9 × 14.4 cm (3 9/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

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Chéron, Louis

Imaginary Classical Landscape

c. 1700

pen and brown ink with brown wash and white gouache on blue laid paper, laid down on an old mount

sheet: 23.6 × 40.7 cm (9 5/16 × 16 in.) mount: 33.4 × 50 cm (13 1/8 × 19 11/16 in.)

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Manners, Violet Marchioness of Granby

James Jebusa Shannon Painting a Portrait of the Young John Manners

1897

graphite with touches of pen and brown ink on paper washed pale gray

sheet: 23.8 × 29.1 cm (9 3/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

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Marlow, William

Ludlow Castle, Shropshire

1770s

watercolor over traces of graphite on paper, laid down

sheet: 35.72 × 25.56 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

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Richmond, George

Mrs. Anne Walbanke-Childers

1843 - 1864

watercolor over graphite with gouache and gum arabic on wove paper, laid down on card

sheet: 52.7 × 38 cm (20 3/4 × 14 15/16 in.) mount: 64 × 49 cm (25 3/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

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Martineau, Edith

Myrrhine

1873

watercolor with gouache and scratching out on wove paper

sheet: 44 × 33.3 cm (17 5/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

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Poynter, Edward John, Sir

Narcissus in a Blue and White Vase

1864

watercolor and gouache on wove paper

sheet: 50.3 × 28.7 cm (19 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.), arched top

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Selby Miss

Netley Abbey, Hampshire

mid-19th century

pen and brown ink and wash over traces of graphite

sheet: 19.05 × 23.5 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)

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Harding, James Duffield

Oberlahnstein on the Rhine

c. 1839

watercolor with gouache over graphite

sheet: 47.1 × 65.3 cm (18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in.)

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Millais, William Henry

On the East Lyn, North Devon

c. 1865

watercolor with gouache and gum arabic on wove paper

sheet: 50.48 × 75.57 cm (19 7/8 × 29 3/4 in.)

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Linnell, John

Paddington Fields, London

1811

black and white chalk on blue paper

sheet: 27.4 × 43.8 cm (10 13/16 × 17 1/4 in.)

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Forster, Thomas

Portrait of a Gentleman

1704

graphite on parchment (plumbago)

sheet (oval): 11.9 × 8.9 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/2 in.) mount: 15.9 × 12.5 cm (6 1/4 × 4 15/16 in.)

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Garden, William Fraser

River Landscape near St. Ives, Huntingdonshire

1897

watercolor with gouache on wove paper

sheet: 19.6 × 28.7 cm (7 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.)

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De Wint, Peter

Saint John's Hospital, Canterbury

1845

watercolor

sheet: 28.2 × 45.8 cm (11 1/8 × 18 1/16 in.)

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Cozens, John Robert

Saint Peter's from the Tiber

1780

watercolor over graphite on laid paper, laid down on mat board

sheet: 27.8 × 37.2 cm (10 15/16 × 14 5/8 in.) mount: 41 × 49.7 cm (16 1/8 × 19 9/16 in.)

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Prout, Samuel

San Giorgio dei Greci, Seen from an Arcade

1824/1829

pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink over graphite, with watercolor and gouache, touched with gum arabic, on medium wove paper

sheet: 42.3 × 27.5 cm (16 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

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Fuseli, Henry

Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven

late 1790s

graphite, black chalk, and brown and gray wash on laid paper

sheet: 42.2 × 27.7 cm (16 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

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Linnell, William

Seated Male Nude with Raised Right Hand

c. 1845/1850

graphite with black and white chalk on gray paper

sheet: 55 × 38.2 cm (21 5/8 × 15 1/16 in.)

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De Wint, Peter

Seaweed Gatherers on the Shore at Redcar, Yorkshire

c. 1838

watercolor over traces of graphite with touches of gouache and scratching out on wove paper

sheet: 14.8 × 32 cm (5 13/16 × 12 5/8 in.) mount: 21.8 × 38.7 cm (8 9/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

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Hills, Robert

Stags in Knole Park, Kent

1839

watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 38 × 50 cm (14 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

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Mulready, William

Study of a Male Nude

c. 1852

pen and black ink and watercolor with white gouache over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 17.46 × 25.08 cm (6 7/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

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Richmond, George

Study of a Seated Man Wearing a Helmet

1824/1830

pen and brown ink with graphite on thin laid paper

sheet: 33.1 × 21.5 cm (13 1/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

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Ryland, Henry

Study of Bay Leaves

before 1898

graphite on dark green paper

sheet: 52.9 × 38.1 cm (20 13/16 × 15 in.)

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Fielding, Anthony Vandyck Copley

The Coming Storm: A Fishing Boat Making for Home off Whitby

1840

watercolor over traces of graphite with scratching out

sheet: 63.7 × 91.9 cm (25 1/16 × 36 3/16 in.)

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Jackson, Samuel

The Dawn of Creation

1830s

brush and black ink with scratching out

sheet: 25.6 x 31.6 cm (10 1/16 x 12 7/16 in.)

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Thornhill, James, Sir

The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

c. 1710

pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over red chalk, on laid paper

sheet: 18.6 × 25.2 cm (7 5/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

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Wyld, William

The Duomo in Milan from a Side Street

c. 1834

watercolor and gouache over black chalk on wove paper

sheet: 38.6 × 24.9 cm (15 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

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Girtin, Thomas

The Edge of a Wood

1800/1801

watercolor over graphite on laid paper

sheet: 10.9 × 14.2 cm (4 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.) mount: 15.6 × 19.7 cm (6 1/8 × 7 3/4 in.)

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Palmer, Samuel

The Enchanted Castle at Dusk

c. 1868

watercolor and gouache with touches of gold on wove paper

overall: 34.9 x 26.7 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.)

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North, John William

The Hayloft

1867

watercolor with gouache and scratching out on wove paper, laid down on board

sheet: 23.1 × 28.4 cm (9 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.) mount: 25 × 30.2 cm (9 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

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Cox, David

The Heather or Broom Gatherers

1851

watercolor on wove paper

sheet: 61.3 × 87.2 cm (24 1/8 × 34 5/16 in.)

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Sowerby, John George

The Kingfisher's Haunt

c. 1890s

watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board

sheet: 24.2 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)

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Hunt, Alfred William

The Ramparts, Mont St. Michel, France

c. 1876

watercolor over graphite with scratching out, on wove paper

sheet: 28.26 × 39.05 cm (11 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)

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Müller, William James

The Rialto Bridge, Venice

1835

watercolor and gouache over graphite and scratching out on wove paper

sheet: 30.9 × 47.6 cm (12 3/16 × 18 3/4 in.)

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Cooke, Edward William

The Rocky Beach and Cliffs at Fécamp

mid-1830s

watercolor on wove paper

sheet: 18.7 × 27.8 cm (7 3/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

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Langley, Walter

The Steps of a House at Mousehole, Cornwall

1880

watercolor on wove paper

sheet: 42.4 × 25.9 cm (16 11/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

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Marlow, William

The Tiber with Saint Peter's and the Castel S. Angelo (recto)

1765/1768

pen and ink with graphite on laid paper

sheet: 15.9 × 26.1 cm (6 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Towne, Francis

The Wrekin, Shropshire

c. 1777/1783

gray wash over traces of graphite with pen and brown and gray ink on laid paper

sheet: 27.46 × 37.94 cm (10 13/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

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Gardner, Daniel

The Yorke Family

c. 1775

gouache, pastel paste, and pastel with graphite and possibly black chalk on prepared paper mounted to canvas (on a wooden stretcher)

sheet: 92 × 70.4 cm (36 1/4 × 27 11/16 in.)

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Richmond, George

Tom -- Florence

1838

graphite, white gouache, and pen and brown ink on tan wove paper

sheet: 27.4 × 18.5 cm (10 13/16 × 7 5/16 in.) mount: 35.8 × 24.7 cm (14 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

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Payne, William

Travellers in a Woodland Glade

c. 1800

watercolor with graphite on wove paper

sheet: 20 × 28.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.)

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Abbott, John White

Trees at Fordland, Devon

1841

pen and gray ink with gray wash on heavy laid paper

sheet: 37.9 × 26.2 cm (14 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

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Watts, Frederick William

Trees by the River at Castle Bromwich

1826

graphite on laid paper

sheet: 48 × 38 cm (18 7/8 × 14 15/16 in.) sheet: 52.3 × 43.2 cm (20 9/16 × 17 in.)

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Curnock, James Jackson

Trees over the River Frome at Stapleton

1862

watercolor and gouache over traces of graphite on wove paper

sheet: 38 × 54.6 cm (14 15/16 × 21 1/2 in.)

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Romney, George

Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene V: The Fight Between Hector and Ajax II

late 1780s/early 1790s

pen and gray ink with gray wash over graphite

overall: 40 × 54.6 cm (15 3/4 × 21 1/2 in.)

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Turner of Oxford, William

View of Oxford from Headington Hill

1830

watercolor and gouache over graphite on wove paper

sheet: 20.1 × 32.5 cm (7 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Hearne, Thomas

Wooded Landscape

late 18th century

watercolor and graphite

overall: 23.7 × 34.2 cm (9 5/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

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Noel, Amelia

Wooded Landscape with Figures outside a Cottage

1795

watercolor over graphite with scratching out on wove paper, laid down

sheet: 47 × 69.9 cm (18 1/2 × 27 1/2 in.) mount: 56.8 × 76.8 cm (22 3/8 × 30 1/4 in.)

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