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A closely-observed pencil study of a bird's wing. This is probably a preparatory drawing for Watts's first painting to be exhibited at the Royal Academy, 'The Wounded Heron' (1837, Watts Gallery).

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The life drawings in this group depict G. F. Watts's favourite model, Mary Bartley. A housemaid at Little Holland House where Watts lived as a guest of the Prinsep family, she became known as 'Long ...

The life drawings in this group depict G. F. Watts's favourite model, Mary Bartley. A housemaid at Little Holland House where Watts lived as a guest of the Prinsep family, she became known as 'Long ...

On this sheet are four studies of a male nude for 'The Denunciation of Cain' (1871, Royal Academy of Arts, 03/1313 and versions at the Watts Gallery and Norwich Castle Museum). The subject illustrates ...

A red chalk life drawing of a male nude standing in profile by the Scottish portraitist Allan Ramsay which is in very bad condition. Ramsay enrolled at the recently founded St. Martin's Lane Academy ...

This sheet of six studies of a female nude includes two drawings on the right hand side of a half-length reclining figure which are very similar in pose to Watts's painting 'A study with the Peacock's ...

Plates 1 (frontis.), [3] and [4] are signed as by I.W. Johns Archt. Plates 1, [2, 4, 5] are signed 'Griffiths Patent on steel (22 George Street, New Road)'; pl. [3] as lithographed by Standidge & Co.

A sheet of seven studies in black and white chalk of women and children. The dress and poses are very similar to those in 02/1059-65 and and both probably depict members and friends of the Prinsep ...

This sheet of studies of a draped female figure probably relate to the reclining woman in the painting 'When Poverty Comes in at the Door, Love Flies out of the Window' (c. 1879, oil sketch in the ...