Egyptian DrawingsEGYPTIAN DRAW I N GS WILLIAM H. PECK PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN G. ROSS FOREWORD BY CYRIL ALDRED This rst full scale study of ancient Egyptian drawings reveals the signicant and varied contributions that drawing made to the world of Egyptian art. Because the Egyptian artists ideal was the achievement of a timeless reality, not individual artistic expression, preliminary drawings, by their very nature individual and spontaneous, assume a special significance