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Albrecht Dürer album applied artists black chalk Black lead blue paper bodycolour British Museum collection brown colour brown ink brown wash Brush drawing Charcoal Claude Lorrain Collector's mark collectors coloured chalks coloured ground complete cartoon Conté dark brown Écorché eighteenth century Federico fifteenth and sixteenth Fischel frequently fresco full-size Germany graphite Highlights indelible Inscribed Inventory numbers iron-gall ink Italian chalk Italy Jacopo Bellini known Lead pencil Lead point Leonardo da Vinci Liber Veritatis lower right Mackintosh Madonna Marques medium Metalpoint mixed with gum Monogram off-white opaque parchment particular pastel drawings Pen and brown pen and ink Peter Paul Rubens pigment Plumbago prepared print or drawing Raphael Recto Red Chalk Reed pen Rembrandt van Rijn Rubbing Sir Peter Lely sixteenth centuries skin sometimes Stamp Studies surface technique term tone trois crayons Turner underdrawing in black usually vellum Verso Vignette Virgin and Child watercolour watermark Watteau white chalk white heightening wires