PRINT ROOM POP-UP EXHIBITION: WOMEN ARTISTS

Thu 21 May 2026, 10:30-11:10am or 11:30am-12:10pm or 2:30-3.10pm

This event takes place onsite in the Western Art Print Room

Choose from one of three 40-minute sessions

Free event, but booking is essential. Book below

Please note that owing to the historical nature of the building, the Western Art Print Room is only accessible by stairs.

Access is via Gallery 53 on the Second Floor of the Museum

With Print Room staff

Join us in the Ashmolean Western Art Print Room to explore a unique pop-up exhibition of drawings, watercolours, and prints by women artists.

Including works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Berthe Morisot, Angelica Kauffman, Mary Cassatt, Gwen John, Gertrude Hermes, and Natal’ya Goncharova, as well as new acquisitions by Prunella Clough.

The Ashmolean’s superb collection of works on paper is rarely on display in the galleries.

The Tragic Muse, Angelica Kauffman, 1770-82, drawing in black chalk

A horse and carriage in the Bois de Boulogne, Berthe Morisot, 1883, watercolours on wove paper

Girl with Hands crossed on her Lap, Gwen John, 1918-1919, charcoal on grey paper, stuck onto second sheet grey-brown paper

My Favourite Picture of all My Works, Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867, photograph

BOOKING

This event takes place onsite in the Western Art Print Room

Choose from one of three 40-minute sessions:

10:30-11:10 or 11:30-12:10 or 14:30-15:10

Free event, but booking is essential