Prints and drawings have played a central role in training artists, inspiring paintings, circulating images and creating artistic reputations. In a series of case studies, lecturer Emma Chambers will trace the changing functions of prints and drawings as they reflected:

• Shifting ideas about originals and reproductions
• Methods of composition
• Artists’ training
• Relationships between the first idea and the completed work

The case studies will focus on works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Reynolds, Constable, Turner, Whistler, Manet and Pissarro.

Image above: Detail from William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 4, The Toilette