Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

Sketches

On this page

  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images of Sketches

83 images from works
  • Three flowering plants, including coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), common rue (Ruta graveolens), and a legume. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Six flowering plants, one possibly a pink (Dianthus species) and one an Anthriscus species. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Elijah restores the widow's son to his mother, who greets him with open arms. Drawing by R.T. Bone, ca. 1811.
  • Two flowering plants, one possibly a campanula. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Five flowering plants, one possibly an Anthriscus species. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Four flowering plants, including a toad lily (Tricyrtis species) and a pink (Dianthus species). Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Four flowering plants. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Three flowering plants, one possibly a composite. Watercolour, c. 1870.
  • Branches of scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). Pen drawing.
View all

Works from the collections

103 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two flowering plants. Watercolour, c. 1870.

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: 3338943i.14
    Part of: Japanese watercolour paintings of flowers.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Leaves of birch (Betula species). Pen drawing with pencil.

    | Reference: 22361i
    • Pictures

    World War One: back view of a man seated on a cushion on the ground. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

    | Date: 1914 | Reference: 24580i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Four flowering plants, one an orange lily (Lilium species). Watercolour, c. 1870.

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: 3338943i.46
    Part of: Japanese watercolour paintings of flowers.
    • Pictures

    World War One: back view of a wounded man lying down. Black chalk drawing, c. 1914.

    | Date: 1914 | Reference: 24587i
View all

Related topics

Plants
Botany - Japan
Botany
Liliaceae
Characters and characteristics
Physiognomy
World War I
Ranunculaceae
Posture
Asteraceae

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence