Drawings & Prints

Explore one of only two surviving intact sketchbooks by the most famous French landscape painter of the eighteenth century, Hubert Robert (1733–1808), who spent eleven years in Rome.

Browse the Codex Huygens, a Renaissance manuscript for a treatise on painting closely related to Leonardo da Vinci.

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Sketchbook, 1880 and after Twenty-one drawings in graphite with some charcoal and blue chalk, Thaw Collection, 2004.35

Humphry Repton prepared this Red Book for Samuel Phipps of Lincoln's Inn, a prosperous attorney, who had purchased the Ferney Hall estate around 1787.

Hatchlands is an estate in Surrey with a handsome brick manor notable for the interior decoration designed by Robert Adam.