Ink
Fluid used for writing, printing or drawing, or painting. Ink was traditionally made with ground lamp black or some other colouring matter and a solution of glue or gum, then moulded into dry sticks or blocks to be mixed with water. Two basic types of ink are available. Waterproof inks dry to a glossy film which can be overlaid with another medium. Non-waterproof inks give an effect of diluted watercolour, drying to a matt finish.
James Jefferys
by James Jefferys
circa 1774-1775
NPG 4669
A Bravura at the Hanover Square Concert
by John Nixon
1789
NPG 5179
John Keats
by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1816
NPG 3251
Sydney Morgan (née Owenson), Lady Morgan
by William Behnes
NPG 1177
Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay
by Sebastian Evans
7 March 1877
NPG 2173(15)
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould ('F.C.G.')
1890s?
NPG 2833
William Ewart Gladstone
by Phil May
1893
NPG 2819
Charles Ginner
by Charles Ginner
1940s
NPG 4992
Sir Patrick Hastings
by Nicolas Clerihew Bentley
published 1948
NPG 4339
King Charles III
by Mark Boxer
1981
NPG 5920(6)
John Tusa; John Birt, Baron Birt; Sir Michael Checkland ('The Race for the Director-Generalship of the BBC')
by David Smith
1992
NPG 6853
John Berger
by Maggi Hambling
2000
NPG 6646