Frontispiece: The Tailor Mouse

Helen Beatrix Potter

The Mice at Work: Threading the Needle

Helen Beatrix Potter

‘No More Twist’

Helen Beatrix Potter

An Old Woman in a Cottage Kitchen (‘Internal of a Cottage, a Study at Ely’)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Scrapbook

Julian Trevelyan

Sketchbook with drawings on cards stuck into the pages

David Jones

Sketchbook, inscribed inside front cover ‘1941/2’, ‘Scotland’

James Boswell

A Country Blacksmith Disputing upon the Price of Iron, and the Price Charged to the Butcher for Shoeing his Poney

Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Laundry Maid Ironing

Henry Robert Morland

Sketchbook with drawings of Iraq and Malta

James Boswell

Parr’s Stores

James Boswell

Flower-piece B - cyan separation

Richard Hamilton

Sewing

Louise Bourgeois

Sketchbook, inscribed ‘1952/53’ inside front cover

James Boswell

It’s a Psychological Fact Pleasure Helps your Disposition

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

Picture of Spatial Growths - Picture with Two Small Dogs

Kurt Schwitters

The Captive Seven

Michael Ayrton

Sketchbook, with ‘Paris Bucharest and London 1953’ on the label on the spine

James Boswell

Sketchbook, with ‘Roughs for Everest 1953’ on a label on the spine

James Boswell

Sketchbook, with ‘1953/4’ on the inside cover

James Boswell