Books published by Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd

Michelangelo's masterpiece The Dream ( Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of all Italian Renaissance drawings and is amongst The Courtauld Gallery's greatest treasures.

Ken Thomson was no mere trophy gatherer. A man of passionate commitment and of wide-ranging cultural curiosity, the late Lord Thomson of Fleet (19232006) began a half-century of collecting in 1953 and continued to the very end of his life. The most important private art collection in Canada, it has drawn the respect of museum curators worldwide.

Accompanies the loan exhibition of drawings from Waddesdon Manor, Rothschild house near Aylesbury, owned by the National Trust. This catalogue reflects the diversity of the Rothschild Collection and the overlapping preoccupations and unflagging curiosity of its creators. It sheds light on the many different techniques and uses of drawing.