The Department of Prints and Drawings houses over 8,000 prints and 7,000 drawings by European and American artists ranging from French fourteenth-century illuminated manuscripts to prints by contemporary Latin American artists. The quality and breadth of the collection were established in the 1930s and 1940s by gifts and bequests from Junius Morgan, Dan Fellows Platt, Frank Jewett Mather Jr., and Clifton R. Hall.

Among the strengths of the Princeton collection are old master prints, including large holdings of etchings and engravings by Jacques Callot and Hendrick Goltzius, in addition to fine impressions of works by such master printmakers as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, and Goya; Italian seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Italian drawings, with outstanding groups by Guercino, Salvator Rosa, Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo; Spanish Renaissance and Baroque drawings; eighteenth-and nineteenth-century French and British prints and drawings; and over 1,000 American drawings, sketchbooks, and watercolors, including examples by Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Exhibitions of prints and drawings are organized frequently, often with accompanying publications. Works not on view are available for consultation by appointment in the study room of the department.

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