Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Apollo and the Hours

Joseph Pennell

The Cathedral of Canterbury from Christ’s Church Gateway

A pen and ink with brown wash drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The Cross is centered in the drawing.

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Deposition

Sebastian Schyz

Double-sided sheet: Recto: Perseus and Andromeda; Verso: Man in a hat with four lines of verse and the word 'Enswih'

Thomas Shotter Boys

View of Folkstone

An illusionistic drawing of sheets of printed papers haphazardly piled on a speckled green surface. The papers look convincingly three dimensional but are in fact renderings on a two-dimensional surface.

Willem Robart

Trompe l’Oeil with Printed Matter

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

The Badminton Victory

A pen and ink drawing inside an Italian restaurant. Two long tables filled with patrons recede towards the back door through which a waiter arrives with a heavy tray.

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Pinelli alla Trattoria (Pinelli at the Restaurant)

A lightly drawn pen and ink rendering of a triumphal procession from the Old Testament. Abigail kneels in supplication at enter left. David stands proudly in the middle right.

Hendrik de Clerck

David and Abigail

Angelica Kauffmann

Portrait of Stanislas III Poniatowski

Francesco Vanni

Study for Fall of Simon Magus

Felice Giani

Vestal Virgins Showing the Will of Augustus to Tiberius and the Senate

An ink and wash drawing of scenes from Saint Joseph’s life, including Jesus’ birth and childhood. The scenes are presented within an ornate wall with figurative sculptures at the top.

Marco Tullio Montagna

Scenes from the Life of Saint Joseph

Pieter Jansz. Pourbus

Study for The Last Judgment

Francis Towne

A View near Dolgelly with Part of Cader Idris

Francesco Guardi

Villa Loredan a Paese (Villa Loredan at Paese)

A pen and ink drawing of Hercules and other figures in a physical. Floating in the sky above and behind him are three female allegories: Victory, Honor, and Fame.

Carlo Maratti

Double-Sided Sheet with Studies of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

A sketchy brown pen and ink study of an older, dapper gentlemen surrounded by a mass of ill-defined bowing supplicants. The image is overlaid with a grid, presumably for transfer.

James Gillray

Study for An Old English Gentleman Pester’d by Servants Wanting Places

Jan van Goyen

A Village Street with Peasants

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Preparatory drawings: Titmouse on plum branch; Mandarin ducks under snow-laden bamboo, Edo Period