Drawings (visual works)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Visual works produced by drawing, which is the application of lines on a surface, often paper, by using a pencil, pen, chalk, or some other tracing instrument to focus on the delineation of form rather than the application of color. This term is often defined broadly to refer to computer-generated images as well.Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Warren Chappell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 10204
Content Description
These additions of MSS 10204 Warren Chappell papers contain letters, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and publications documenting the life and work of Warren Chappell from roughly 1929 to 2000. Janet Anderson, Shelah Kane Scott, and Calvin Otto were recipients and owners of the collections. The bulk of the collection is correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends including his wife Lydia Chappell. There is significant amounts of correspondence with Rafael Fernandez, Curator of...
Dates:
1929-2000
Margaret Crockett album
Collection — Box BW 16, Folder: 1 [X030899238]
Identifier: MSS 16320
Scope and Contents
Margaret Crockett album, MSS 16320, 1905-1933, 0.03 cubic feet is described as a commercial album with gold-stamped leather batting-stuffed covers and multi-colored gilt-edged pages, covered with a dull green hand-made fabric cover embroidered "M.C." in red thread. Front free endpaper reads "Margaret Crockett / July 1911," though one pasted entry is dated 1905 and the latest entry is from 1933. The initials RNS (Royal Naval School), is found scattered throughout the volume, as are the...
Dates:
1905-1933
M. Gillett botanical plates
Collection — Box BW 59: [Barcode: X031674512], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16882
Content Description
This collection contains a single-bound manuscript produced by an English student of botany, dated 1838 with the name and date "M.Gillet" inscribed on the front endpaper with "M. Gillet" stenciled with a floral wreath border in the front free endpaper. The book contains watercolor, pencil, and ink illustrations of plants. The manuscript opens with tissue-guarded images of common English plants, including a key to leaves ("roundish," "linear," "kidney-shaped," "trowel-shaped"). The text...
Dates:
1838
Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie
Item — Flat_box Archival Oversized Box S 2, Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 1 [X031750312]
Identifier: MSS 16429
Scope and Contents Note
The Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie (circa 1769; 0.08 cubic foot) documents a rare original drawing for an illustration in the Encyclopédie by its most important and prolific draughtsman. This is the original for the workshop scene, the top section of "Hongroyeur," pl. III. In the engraving the plate has the legend, "Hongroyeur, l'Operation de mettre au Suif et Plan de l'Eture. (Tanner of Hungarian Leather, Operation of Tallowing and Plan of the Drying Room). Collection...
Dates:
circa 1769
The Illustrated Alphabet
Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: X032784886]
Identifier: MSS 16862
Content Description
This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front...
Dates:
c. 1875
Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville drawings
Unprocessed Material — Oversize_flat_file_folder ViU-2025-0110_001: [Barcode: X032762797]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0110
Jon A. Lindseth Brontë collection
Unprocessed Material — Box ViU2026-0023_001: [Barcode: X032762893]
Identifier: ViU-2026-0023
Dates:
c.1829-1979, undated; Majority of material found within 1829 - 1855
John Leech watercolor sketches
Collection — Box BW 58: [Barcode: X032668462], Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16912
Content Description
This collection contains eight original pen, ink, and watercolor sketches with initials by the English caricaturist John Leech (1816-1864). Illustrated roughly around 1840, each illustration depicts his observations of daily British life of the lower and middle classes: on the street, in taverns, and at home. All contain captions related to the image, and some have titles in addition to their caption. These titles include "A Speculation," "On the Boulevards," "A Toothless Trio," "A Learned...
Dates:
undated, circa 1840
Materials related to UVA mass shooting
Collection
Identifier: RG-50/6
Content Description
This collection features a colored pencil portrait of Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler, the University of Virginia students and football members killed in a mass shooting on November 13, 2022, at the University of Virginia. After the tragedy, President and Mrs. Ryan opened their home for students to gather. Isabelle Martins, a Univeristy of Virginia architecture student, brought this drawing as a gift to Carr's Hill. The following week, President Ryan asked for the artist to...
Dates:
November 2022
Student activities building drawing
Unprocessed Material — Oversize_flat_file_folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2018-0042
The Book of Myths Addition 1 (ViU-2026-0025), 1913
File — Box 2: [Barcode: X032762942], Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
“The Book of Myths” is a leather-bound 1913 illustrated manuscript by Jefferson Wallace for his daughter, Anne Clopton Wallace. Jefferson Wallace’s bookplate, place marked Richmond, Virginia, appears at the volume’s front endpage. The hand-illustrated and colored frontispiece of the book features the subtitle “Some of the Sweet Myths of Nature” and features the credit line “Arranged for Mistress Anne Clopton Wallace by Her Daddy.” Underneath these captions is “Philadelphia, MCMXIII,” where...
Dates:
1913
University of Virginia Medical Illustrations collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-67
Scope and Content
The collection comprises mostly of anatomical illustrations of humans and animals by professional medical illustrators and medical practioners, but there is a good number of caricatures. Many of the images depict 20th century surgical prodedures; there are also physiological illustrations included in the collection. Most items are drawn in pencil on illustration paper with cardboard backing. In addition, there are some drawings in notepads and on tracing paper.
Dates:
1720 - 1969; Majority of material found in undated
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Petra Vogt papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -16480
Content Description
This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...
Dates:
1966 - 1978
Warren Chappell papers--addition 4
Unprocessed Material — Flat_box ACC_BW_003: [Barcode: X006178799], Oversize_Flat_File_folder: ViU-2025-0001_001
Identifier: ViU-2025-0001