18th and 19th Century British

The Collections of the Strang Print Room are particularly rich in 18th and 19th Century British works of art. Many of these were part of the 1900 gift of Henry Vaughan to UCL. Vaughan was a renowned collector of old master prints and drawings and of 18th and 19th Century British art, who left oil paintings by Turner and Constable to the National Gallery and drawings by Michelangelo to the British Museum. There are only 12 Little Liber prints, and all of them depict effects of light and weather. Rather than employing professional printmakers, Turner engraved these plates himself. The most spectacular of these were a fireworks display and an eruption of Vesuvius.