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National Gallery of Art

25,761 works

Pencil sketch of a river harbor with a wooden crane, masted sailing vessels, and wooded hills behind the water.

Norwich, Connecticut

Peter Moran, 1882

Pencil sketch of a river bend with wooded banks, a sailboat, beached rowboats beside a wooden pier, and a distant bridge.

York River

Peter Moran, 1882

Pencil sketch of a village waterfront with houses, a chimney with smoke, trees, and marsh grasses in the foreground.

Newburyport

Peter Moran, 1882

Pencil sketch of St. Paul's Cathedral dome across the Thames at low tide, with barges and pilings in the foreground.

St. Paul's from Under Waterloo Bridge, Low Tide

Thomas Moran, 1862

Caricature of a heavyset balding man eating a pastry beside a tiered stand of buns, with French caption below.

L'habitué de la boutique de Félix

Honoré Daumier, 1841

Pencil sketch of a stone bridge, tiled-roof house, trees and a rowboat on a river, by Samuel F. B. Morse.

The Pescatory

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1834

Pencil sketch sheet with multiple vignettes of figures, standing men, a woman in a long skirt, and seated women, with handwri

Studies of Figural Groups

William Sidney Mount, 1866

Pencil sketch of a farmhouse among trees beside an open field with small figures, fence posts, and distant tree lines.

Long Island, New York

William Sidney Mount, c. 1850s

Pencil sketch of a valley with a river, sailboats, distant mountains, trees and farm buildings, with handwritten color notes.

Valley with River and Mountains

William Sidney Mount, 1843

Caricature lithograph of a man with a long nose embroidering at a hoop, with French caption below.

Le brodeur

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Charcoal self-portrait of a man with dark hair and mustache, gazing directly at the viewer against a dark background.

Self-Portrait

Jerome Myers, 1896

Colored print of a paneled hall with a bay window, red curtains, a carved fireplace, a seated woman, a reading child and a do

Bay window on the Hall, Speke, Lancashire

Joseph Nash, 1849

Woodblock print of pine trees, travelers with a palanquin, thatched houses, and Mount Fuji in the distance.

Fujisawa-shuku

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855

Pencil sketch of workers harvesting with scythes in an open field, with a large tree and distant treeline behind them.

Harvesting, New England

Aaron Draper Shattuck, c. 1866

Caricature of two hunters bowing politely in a field while a hare escapes behind them, with hunting dogs nearby.

Trop de politesse

Honoré Daumier, 1857

Daumier lithograph of an elderly man with a cane at a doorway as a startled woman peeks out from behind the door.

Le réfugié politique

Honoré Daumier, 1842

Pencil drawing of a lake shore with pine trees, a rowboat with one figure, and distant mountains under a streaked sky.

Cherry Lake, White Mountains

Aaron Draper Shattuck, 1859

Hand-colored print of a carved fireplace and ornate ceiling in a drawing room, with figures in period dress.

Fireplace in the Drawing Room, Speke, Lancashire

Joseph Nash, 1849

Watercolor of sea cliffs with breaking waves and a small castle on a cliff edge under a hazy sky.

Baldart Castle, Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland

William Trost Richards, 1892

Watercolor of jagged dark rocks with white surf breaking around them under a grey cloudy sky over the sea.

Seascape with Rocks

William Trost Richards, c. 1890s

Seascape drawing of grey-green waves breaking over dark rocks at lower left, with gulls flying under an overcast sky.

Rocks and Breaking Waves

William Trost Richards, c. 1870s

Graphite and white chalk drawing of dense leafy branches on tan paper, signed W.T. Richards at lower left.

Foliage

William Trost Richards, late 19th century

Misty charcoal drawing of San Giorgio Maggiore's bell tower and dome across Venetian water at dusk, with small figures.

Evening, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Eugène Vail, c. 1900-1920

Lithograph of three men looking up at a dark cloud labeled Dissolution above a legislative building, with city rooftops below

Crévera! Crévera pas!

Honoré Daumier, 1870

Caricature lithograph of an elderly man in a top hat checking his pocket watch beside a smoking cannon, with French caption.

Le regulateur

Honoré Daumier, 1841

Daumier caricature of a man in a top hat beside a photographer's Reotype camera on a tripod, street behind.

La patience est la vertu des ânes

Honoré Daumier, 1840

Lithograph of a reclining man on a sofa speaking to a standing man in an interior room, by Honoré Daumier, 1841.

Macaire Hértier-Philantrope

Honoré Daumier, 1841

Pencil sketch of broken bare trees, a horse-drawn cart with soldiers, and a ruined village in a flat landscape.

Soldiers in a Devastated Landscape [recto]

John Singer Sargent, 1918

Caricature of two men, one in a top hat reading papers, the other shrugging amid torn letters scattered on the ground.

Encore mes créanciers, toujours ...

Honoré Daumier, 1841

Daumier lithograph of two men in a room, one in a top hat holding a cane, the other gesturing, caricature style.

Excellent placement

Honoré Daumier, 1841