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Drawing (image-making)

Scope note

Producing visible forms primarily by delineation, usually by the direct application of material or instrument to the surface of the support.

This term has 4,271 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300054196

Broader Terms used

<drawing and drawing techniques>

Narrower Terms used

architectural drawing (technique)
ink drawing
tinted drawing

Term used for

arts, graphic
graphic arts

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Drawing

Peggy Wale

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Downman, John

Head of the Prophetess

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

An image of Drawing

Study of the end of a cottage at Trowse, Lakenham, near Norwich

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Cotman, John Sell

Robert Bridges O.M.

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Strang, William

Thomas Charles Fountain

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Downman, John

An image of Drawing

Three figures in a setting

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Armitage, Kenneth

Head of Alonso for 'The Tempest'

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

An image of Drawing

Mrs Elizabeth Nation

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Downman, John

An image of Drawing

Fanny Cornforth

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Head of a letter with a self-portrait

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Caldecott, Randolph

Sketch of the Bayeux Tapestry

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lewis, George Robert

Study of a hand (for "Blind Man's Buff"?)

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Wilkie, David

An image of Drawing

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, C.B.E., 1926 (1884-1941)

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: John, Augustus Edwin

An image of Drawing

Aeneas flying from Troy

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Burne-Jones, Edward

Mr Gillum of ____ Cambridgeshire

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Downman, John

The true story of the Great Fritz of Prussia: an illustration to "The Leisure Hour", December 26, 1861

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Walker, Frederick

Upper left, sketch of a group of figures, the third from right lying on his side, being pulled along by his cloak; upper right, floral design; lower left, sketch of a band; lower centre, sketch of a woman lying on a settee, a tree and a man with a ?weapon or instrument; lower right, sketch of a woman with a long braid, from behind

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Burne-Jones, Edward

An image of Drawing

Sketches of lines of army baggage trains, moving to right

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Della Bella, Stefano

An image of Drawing

Subject drawing showing nude youth on horseback

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

Upper left, sketch of the head of a monk(1); lower right, sketch of a group of figures with swords and shields facing a figure on a horse (?)

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Burne-Jones, Edward

An image of Drawing

The Death of Turnus

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Burne-Jones, Edward

Dr Richard Bentley

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Downman, John

Roger Kynaston

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Downman, John

?Rape of the Sabines

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

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