
A couple months back I met up with fellow Searle fan Pete Western for a visit to the Prints & Drawings dept. at the British Museum in London. They hold all the original drawings for Searle's
'The Rakes Progress'. There are several boxes of drawings & we only had time to look through a couple. The museum allowed us to photograph the drawings for personal use only as the copyright resides with the artist. Mr Searle granted me permission to publish the photos so I hope the British Museum is OK with this post.

It was enlightening to see the original artwork. The printed pages tend to lose a lot of the nuance of Searle's drawings. But in the photographs you can see the various media & techniques he used.
Here's a scan of a page from the printed book.

Click on the image to see the enlarged detail.

I was surprised to see that this one was drawn without ink at all but in crayon.

Thanks to Pete for the excellent photographs. More to come soon . . .
Part 1 of
'The Rake's Progress' here.