- HD 1080
- Runtime: 108m.
- Status: Released
- 1
- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom
- Director: Peter Greenaway
- Stars: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Dave Hill, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser
- keywords: adultery, drawing and painting, witshire, southhampton, 17th century
- Production_studio: BFI, Film4 Productions
- Slogan: A landscape of lust and cunning.
- providers: Metrograph, Kino Film Collection
- The The Draughtsman's Contract is featured in the top rankings of 1982
- #28 in Top Drama Movies of 1982
- #5 in Top Mystery Movies of 1982
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.