In pictures: Great British Drawings
Trace the history of drawing in Britain at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, this April, in an exhibition of more than 100 works by artists such as JMW Turner and Thomas Rowlandson
The Corsican, his two friends and his blood hounds at the Window of the Thuilleries looking over Paris, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1815 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
The Knight’s Farewell, by Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1858 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Venice: The Riva degli Schiavoni, by JMW Turner, 1840 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Italianate Landscape with travellers on a winding road, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1775‒79 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Oscar Wilde, by Max Beerbohm, 1894 © The Estate of Max Beerbohm
The Abbey from the Churchyard, Arbroath, by John Piper, 1982 © The Piper Estate / DACS 2015
A Ruined House, by John Sell Cotman, c1807–10 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Great British Drawings is on show at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 26 March–31 August 2015. For more information, and to book tickets, visit www.ashmolean.org
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