c.1485-1500 | 6.7 x 13.0 cm

A page showing mathmatics. 

c.1517-18

Recto: Black chalk. Verso: Pen and ink over black chalk, with traces of red chalk

26.5 x 17.3 cm

c.1517-18

Recto: Black chalk. Verso: Pen and ink over black chalk, with traces of red chalk

26.5 x 17.3 cm

The face is thought to be of Leonardo

c.1490-95

Red and black chalk and pen and ink

15.9 x 9.3 cm

c.1508-10

Pen and ink and red chalk.

20.8 x 15.9 cm

Description:

"a study of a man hammering, and on a slightly larger scale, two men lifting a load onto a stretcher; diagrams of machinery; many notes, and a machine. Horizontally to the notes, two heads (not by Leonardo)."

c.1503-4

Pen and ink and wash over black chalk, some pounce-marks.

24.0 x 36.7 cm

"a map of the country north-west of Florence, showing the valley Lucca, Pistoja, Prato on the north, and the valley of the Arno on the south. V"

c.1490

Pen and ink

7.5 x 13.0 cm

"Scribbles of a nymph, a wolf, a flying putto, two machines and a piece of drapery, a compass. Also a note crossed out, written from left to right, not in Leonardo's writing."

c.1510

Recto: Red chalk. Verso: Pen and ink

4.7 x 4.5 cm

Description:

"Recto: a drawing of the head of an old man of the classical type, turned in profile to the left. He is crowned with a wreath of laurel (Laurus nobilis). Verso: part of a geometric diagram, with the letters 'a b' in Leonardo's hand. This may be a fragment from the Codex Atlanticus, folio 299 recto-a."

c.1492-4

Pen and ink with traces of red chalk. 

19.5 x 28.8 cm

Description:

"a sheet of notes and exploratory diagrams; with a drawing of a horse walking in profile to the left."

c.1492-4

Pen and ink with traces of red chalk. 

19.5 x 28.8 cm

c.1510-13

Pen and ink over traces of black chalk. 

21.5 x 16.1 cm

"a study of a cascade of water forming four tiers of curling waves; extensive notes. "

c.1510-13

Pen and ink over traces of black chalk. 

21.5 x 16.1 cm

c.1510-13

Pen and ink

8.8 x 10.1 cm

"Three studies of water swirling away from a concave surface; a larger study of the same; many notes."

c.1503-5

Pen and ink

3.3 x 2.5 cm

c.1492

Red chalk

13.5 x 9.3 cm

" Three drawings of a man's head arranged to show its proportions in foreshortening. The one above is full face, the one below it full face looking down, and the one to the right is turned in profile to the left, looking down."

c.1508

Pen and ink and black chalk. 

15.5 x 23.0 cm

Description:

"Two studies of a left arm and a small study of a torso between them, with lines showing the contraposto position. On the left is a sketch of a water-mill and trees, upside down.""

c.1508

Pen and ink and black chalk. 

15.5 x 23.0 cm

Description:

"a view of houses and a mill beside a pond on which is a gondola and a punt."
 

c.1503-4

Pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour over black chalk

33.8 x 48.8 cm

Description:

"a drawing of a map showing Arezzo, Borgho san Sepolcro, Chiusi and Siena. "

c.1503-4

Pen and ink with traces of black chalk

17.0 x 14.0 cm

Description:

"studies for The Battle of Anghiari, with soldiers and horses fighting; two figures of soldiers scrambling, with their backs to the viewer.

c.1508

Pen and ink and black chalk

18.9 x 13.6 cm

Description:

" drawing of a man holding a club, seen from behind so as to show the muscles of the back, some of which are stylized."

c.1517-18
Pen and ink over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: 
25.7 x 16.6 cm

"Recto: studies of the chest and off fore-leg of a horse, bent and raised and engaged, divided into sections, with measurements. Verso: tracings of the drawings on the recto. Probably for an undocumented French equestrian monument.

c.1485-90

Metalpoint on pale blue prepared paper

16.5 x 12.4 cm

Acquirer: Charles II, King of Great Britain (1630-85)

Provenance: 

Bequeathed to Francesco Melzi; from whose heirs purchased by Pompeo Leoni, c.1582-90; Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel, by 1630; Probably acquired by Charles II; Royal Collection by 1690

Description:

A drawing of the head and shoulders of a young woman, almost in profile to the left. She wears a cap on the back of her head and a square-cut bodice.

The drawing is the work of two different hands. The bust and the back of the head are drawn with great freedom and assurance, and are so similar to the equivalent areas of RL 12505 that they must be by Leonardo; the face, by contrast, is densely hatched and the outline deadened by overemphasis. It seems that a pupil worked up an outline sketch by Leonardo as a drawing exercise. It was primarily the followers of Leonardo who, in drawings like this, created the frozen Leonardesque type that was for centuries afterwards thought of as the epitome of the master's work.

Text adapted from 'Leonardo da Vinci: the Divine and the Grotesque'"

c.1510-15

Red and black chalk, brush and dilute ink and white heightening on pale red prepared paper

24.4 x 18.7 cm

Description:

A study of the Madonna's head turned three quarters to left and bent slightly forward. She wears a veil bound around her head, which hangs forward neatly over her forehead.

Leonardo's hand is evident only in the intricate headdress, for the face was worked up later by another artist, following the Leonardesque type of large features and a downcast glance found subsequently throughout Milanese art. No headdress in this form occurs in any work by Leonardo, though there is evidence of four late paintings of the Madonna and Child of which no trace survives, and the drawing could in principle have been a study for one of these.

Text adapted from 'Leonardo da Vinci: the Divine and the Grotesque'

c.1490
Pen and ink
5.0 x 8.1 cm

Some written notes in Leonardo's hand

c.1510

Pen and ink. 

Dimensions: 

28.6 x 18.0 cm

Description:

"three sketches of the courses of rivers with the towns marked on their banks, and the distances between them. "

c.1510

Pen and ink. 

Dimensions: 

28.6 x 18.0 cm

Description:

two and a half crudely-drawn heads and profiles, and four drawings of various figures, none of which are by Leonardo.

c.1490-92
Recto: Pen and ink, and red chalk. Verso: Pen and ink, discoloured white
20.3 x 15.3 cm
 

Description:
"Recto: a drawing of the head of a man turned in profile to the left, cut through to show the structure of the skull-bone and of the eye. Below is a section showing the scalp, peri-cranium etc. There is also a section of the eye, and the head seen from above. To the left is a note in red chalk with a section of an onion, comparing it with a section of the head."

c.1490-92
Recto: Pen and ink, and red chalk. Verso: Pen and ink, discoloured white
20.3 x 15.3 cm

"an old man's head full face and various anatomical scribbles of a head and cranium. Vertically to these is a poor profile, facing left, not by Leonardo."