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| Andrea Mantegna Fall of Ignorant Humanity 15th century engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Andrea Mantegna Rescue of Humanity 15th century engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
These engravings, drawings, and etchings were amassed by the 19th-century London collector Constantine Alexander Ionides. Curators at their current home in the Victoria & Albert Museum perceive a general selection pattern on the part of C.A. Ionides favoring depictions of social outcasts and the poor. This apparent preference in subject matter seems to sit oddly with the collector's lifetime devotion to capitalist speculation and his posthumous reputation as a domestic tyrant. But such paradoxes are commonplace wherever ethics and aesthetics encounter each other. He warmly loved this collection, its quality permits no doubt of that.
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| Rembrandt St Jerome & the Lion c. 1653 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rembrandt The Pancake Woman 1635 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rembrandt Beggar seated on a bank 1630 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rembrandt Jacob's Ladder 1655 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rembrandt David's vision of the Four Beasts 1655 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rembrandt The image Nebuchadnezzar saw 1655 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Alphonse Legros Discipline in the monastery late 19th century etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Auguste Rodin Bust of Bellona c. 1883 drypoint Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Honoré Daumier Barrister 1850s drawing Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Edward Calvert Classical Head 19th century drawing Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rembrandt The Three Crosses 1660s etching Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Rembrandt Landscape with cottage and hay barn 1641 etching Victoria & Albert Museum |