Drawings at the British Museum in room 90

The British Museum is a deservedly world class museum which I visit on a regular basis. A little-known area though is the Drawing Room, room 90, .

Among the collection of over 2 million drawings and prints are examples as diverse as these pre-revolutionary portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by former writing master and calligraphic artist Jean Joseph Bernard 

and contemporary artist Maggie Hambling, whose work is currently on show. This delicate 1982 portrait of her former teacher Frederick Morris, drawn from memory

is in great contrast to the record of Stephen Fry falling asleep

and the piercing gaze of John Berger.

I also enjoyed the immediacy of her sketch of an approaching storm over the sea.