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A naturally occurring crystalline form of carbon dimorphous with diamond. It is opaque, soft, greasy to the touch, and iron black to steel gray; it occurs as crystals, flakes, scales, veins, bedded masses, or disseminations in metamorphic rocks. AGID84

This term has 10,109 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Material
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300011098

Broader Terms used

Term used for

black lead
lead, black
plumbago

Created

13yrs ago

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Angeis

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lewis, George Robert

A view of Ipswich in 1929

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Squirrell, Leonard

Slight sketch of figures

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

MS 2973-2000

Maker(s)

Writer: Buller, Captain
Writer: Linnell, John

A monk facing left with monk's cowl

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Richmond, George

Study of three children in a wooded setting

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Waterford, Louisa Stuart, marchioness

Unknown Girl

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Ferguson, James (1700s)

Sheet of Studies: Woman's head and Shepherd with sheep

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Cockerell, Florence Kingsford

Pilgrims entering a church

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Hollins, John

An image of Drawing

Stone bust of Flora, garlanded with flowers

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Henstenburgh, Herman

Study of figures and buildings

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lewis, John Frederick

Sketch of Ecclesiastical murals in S. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Powell, Alfred Hoare

View over a landscape to a distant hill, buildings in foreground

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Pugin, Augustus Charles

Study of the head of the artist's son, Nicholas, from behind

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Coker, Peter

Design for cover and spine of book "Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides" by Rudyard Kipling

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Wood, Joan Kingsford

Study of a seated woman, measuring needlework

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Waterford, Louisa Stuart, marchioness

?Embroidery Lesson?

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

Mrs Dickinson

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Downman, John

Three sketches of a seated woman, one reading

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

Miranda, Prospero and Ariel amazing crew

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

Two women and a baby

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Poynter, Edward John

MS 2767-2000

Maker(s)

Writer: Varley, John

A Jester and a man: illustration for Lamb's 'Essays of Elia'

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Jones, Garth

An image of Drawing

Fortune Telling

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Romney, George

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