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Rijksmuseum

55,783 works

Grey wash design drawing of a classical ewer and a two-handled footed bowl on a ruled sheet.

Design for a jug and bowl

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1790

Engraved print of a cavalry battle on dunes, with armoured knights, horses, fallen soldiers and a distant town and windmill.

Battle between the Lord of Breauté and Gerrit Abrahamsz. Lekkerbeetje on the Vughterheide, 1600

Joannes van Doetechum, 1600

Engraving of a seated allegorical woman with an anchor pointing upward beside a kneeling bearded man labeled Judas, among rui

Judas and hope (Spes)

Hans Collaert, 1576

Pencil drawing of three cows in a meadow, one grazing and two lying down, beside a wooden fence and a tree.

Three cows in a meadow near a gate

Pieter de Goeje, 1809

Grey wash drawing of a helmeted figure in a sand circle facing robed men, with soldiers, a city wall and trees behind.

Popilius Laenas draws a circle around Antiochus IV Epiphanes in the sand

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Grey wash sketch of a theatre curtain design with classical columns, a seated woman, a lute player and putti.

Sketch for a stage curtain in The Hague

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1803

Pen and brown ink sketch of a theatre interior with a draped curtain, a seated man, and a standing woman beside a pillar.

Sketch for a stage curtain in The Hague, seen from the side

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1803

Ink and wash drawing of an organ grinder and a child beside a house, with a sailboat and figures at windows.

Design for the face of a clock with an organ grinder in front of a house

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and grey wash design of a symmetrical facade with a radiant cloud above a central arch inscribed PAX.

Design for a decoration on the building of Felix Meritis

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1802

Pen and wash architectural elevation of a classical building with a dome, pediment, and central columned portico.

Design for decorations on the Felix Meritis building

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Brown ink and wash drawing of four putti playing music under a tree within an arched overdoor design.

Design for an overdoor with making-music putti

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Grey ink drawing of a man and woman at a table beside two landscape sketches with trees and sky.

Sketch of man and woman at table and two sketches of landscapes

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Hand-coloured print of a printing workshop with workers at presses and type cases, with Dutch verses above and below.

With reverence and admiration, / Must you view this plate, / The reason for it, dear youth, / I will unfold to you he…

M. Hemeleers-van Houter, 1827

Hand-coloured print of figures of all ages climbing a numbered staircase of life beneath a Memento Mori plaque.

The ladder of old age

Hermanus Numan, 1827

Etching of a village with a tall church tower and windmill under cloudy skies, with a cow and two figures on a dirt road.

View of Rhenen(?)

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of two figures on a rural road beside a large tree, thatched cottage, shrubs and a conifer under a hatched sky.

Two persons on a country road

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Etching of a dense forest with tall trees beside a still water surface, two small figures walking on a path.

Forest view with a body of water

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Dark print of a moonlit landscape with trees, shrubs and water beneath a glowing moon behind clouds.

Landscape by moonlight

Johannes Pieter van Wisselingh, 1830

Satirical lithograph of drunk men, a skeleton, devils, a duel and card players arranged in rows on a sheet.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1847

Alexander Ver Huell, 1847

Satirical lithograph of 1845 with many small vignettes of students, a winged skeleton, an hourglass and grotesque heads.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1845

Alexander Ver Huell, 1845

Lithograph page with small vignettes of student life, including a seated young man resting his head on his hand at the center

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1848

Alexander Ver Huell, 1848

Sketched page of vignettes around a man in a top hat with women and a dog, with VARIA lettering below, from an 1842 student a

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1842

Alexander Ver Huell, 1842

Lithograph of militia men resting with women and a dog on a slope, with soldiers in formation on a hill behind.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1849

Carel Christiaan Antony Last, 1849

Lithograph of allegorical vignettes with a seated writer, cherubs, a donkey, a serpent and a skull, framed by foliage.

Caricature in Leiden student almanac, 1850

Carel Christiaan Antony Last, 1850

Engraving of two laureate figures, Dante and Virgil, entering hell through a rocky gate with a tree and wooden doors.

Dante and Virgil enter hell through a gate

Aegidius Sadeler, 1580

Engraving of a bearded woodcutter carrying an axe over his shoulder, walking among felled and standing trees in a forest.

Fable of the woodcutter and the forest

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Engraving of a leaping chamois pierced by a hunter's spear on a cliff, with a town and trees in the distance.

Fable of the chamois and the hunter

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Engraving of robed men on a rocky hillside pointing at a mountain beside a tree, with a mouse in the foreground.

Fable of the mountain in labor

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Etching of a lion and donkey confronting a rooster in a hilly landscape, with a castle and river behind them.

Fable of the lion, donkey and rooster

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608

Etching of a shaggy bison surrounded by a goat, donkey, dog, weasel and camel in a hilly landscape.

Fable of the bison and the other animals

Aegidius Sadeler, 1608