Drawing in Britain, 1700–1900: A Decade of Acquisitions

Ezekiel Barton, A Cliff Overhung with Trees, early 19th century, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin, 2022.66.1

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Thomas Gainsborough, A Rocky Wooded Landscape with a Figure by a Stream, 1781, black and gray wash with pen and black ink on tan laid paper, Gift of Donald Stone, 2022.40.56

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From below, we look up at a nude, muscular man striding from one dark gray boulder to another against a mist-gray background in this vertical drawing. The man’s right knee, to our left, is bent as he leans onto that leg. His other leg is stretched behind him so the foot reaches into the lower right corner of the sheet. The man holds his left arm, to our right, high with that hand in a fist, and he turns his head to look in that direction. A white drapery swirls up and behind the man’s shoulders. The background is mostly washes of muted, slate gray with a darker flint-gray area to the left. The man’s body is outlined lightly in graphite and chalk and more lines create a loose, angular grid across the background. The sheet has a crease across its middle.

Henry Fuseli, Satan Defying the Powers of Heaven, late 1790s, graphite, black chalk, and brown and gray wash on laid paper, Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2015.10.1.a

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William Mulready, Study of a Male Nude, c. 1852, pen and black ink and watercolor with white gouache over graphite on wove paper, Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner, 2019.87.1

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Edith Martineau, Myrrhine, 1873, watercolor with gouache and scratching out on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2018.87.1

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William James Müller, Eel Bucks at Goring, c. 1843, watercolor on wove paper, Purchased as the Gift of Alexander M. and Judith W. Laughlin, 2018.86.1

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William Callow, A Gondola on the Grand Canal, Venice, 1866, watercolor over graphite with gouache on wove paper, laid down, Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner, 2017.33.1

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Daniel Gardner, 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), Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2019.142.1

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John Hoppner, A Young Boy Seated Beneath a Tree, c. 1790s/1810, red and black chalk with brush and grey and black ink, Gift of Funds from the Krugman Family Foundation, 2022.78.1

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Sir Edwin Landseer, 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, Gift of Connie Simmons and James D. Krugman, 2021.27.1

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