The Print Room at

Windsor Castle Windsor Castle is a List of British royal residences, royal residence at Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about west of central London. It is strongly associated with the Kingdom of England, English and succee ...

is a

print room A print room is a room in an art gallery or museum where a collection of old master print, old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings, watercolours, and photographs, are held and viewed. A further meaning is a room decorated ...

which is an office in the

Royal Collection The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. Spread among 13 occupied and historic List of British royal residences, royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King ...

Department of the Royal Household of the

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of the

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. It is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collections of

drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...

s and

old master print An old master print (also spaced masterprint) is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (mostly by Old Masters). The term remains current in the art trade, and there is no easy alternative in English to distingu ...

s, including

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the ...

s. The term refers to both an institution and a room, and is under the direction of the Head of Prints and Drawings, currently

Martin Clayton Martin Clayton, LVO, FSA, (born 1967) is Head of Prints and Drawings for Royal Collection Trust at Windsor Castle. He is a specialist in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Early life Martin Clayton was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire on 30 D ...

MVO. The collection is exceptionally strong, with famous holdings of drawings by

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...

(550),

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspir ...

and

Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; ; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He ...

(85). A large part of the

Old Master In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master")Old Masters De ...

drawings were acquired by George III.Royal Collection
"drawings, watercolours and prints" File:Raphael - Leda and the swan c.1507, RCIN 912759.jpg,

, ''Leda and the Swan'', c.1507 File:Studies of embryos.jpg,

– '' Studies of the Fetus in the Womb'', 1511 File:Hans Holbein the Younger - Sir John Godsalve (c.1505-56) - Google Art Project.jpg,

, Sir John Godsalve (c.1505-56), 1532–34, drawing with chalks and bodycolour File:Michelangelo - The Risen Christ c.1532, RCIN 912768.jpg,

, ''The Risen Christ'', c.1532 File:Maria Giustina Turcotti caricature.jpg,

Marco Ricci Marco Ricci (6 June 1676 – 21 January 1730) was an Italian Baroque painter. Early years He was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in 1694–6.Giacometti, Margherita. In: ' ...

, Caricature of opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti, c. 1720-1730

References

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