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13,729 works

Brown wash drawing of a river with a windmill on the left and a sailing boat with a large sail on the right.

River view with sailing ship

Johannes Bosboom, 1846

Watercolor of a brown-sailed boat in shallow water with a second boat and seagulls under an overcast sky.

Bomschuit being pulled onto the beach

Hendrik Willem Mesdag, 1841

Ink calligraphy model with looping flourishes, a large decorative initial, and lines of Dutch handwritten text on pale paper.

Design for a writing sample: Marcus Curius (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphic writing sample with dense Dutch text and elaborate looping flourishes.

Design for a writing sample: Highly learned Wise (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphic writing exemplar with Dutch text surrounded by large looping flourishes.

Design for a writing sample: The Mayors (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphic writing exemplar with ornate looping flourishes framing handwritten Dutch text.

Design for a writing sample: To S. Jaques Olis (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a Dutch calligraphy writing exemplar with ornate looping flourishes and decorative initials.

Design for a writing sample: Honorable wise provident (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Engraved calligraphy specimen with flourished letters, scrolls and a dedication text in Dutch, by Jan van de Velde, 1605.

Design for a writing sample: The honorable pious Hans vanden Velde (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Design for a writing sample: To Mons. Jean vande Veke (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Engraved writing model with flourished calligraphic border framing French dedicatory text and a large decorative signature.

Design for a writing sample: To very expert (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Engraved calligraphy specimen with French text beside an alphabet, framed by large swirling pen flourishes.

Design for a writing sample: Nothing avails men (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Ink calligraphy specimen with looping flourishes, a dedication to H. Gout, and a tall ornamental penwork column at right.

Design for a writing sample: To mons H. Gout (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphy exemplar with flourished script lines and large looping ornamental swashes on pale paper.

Design for a writing sample: To my singular friend (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Ink drawing of a 1605 writing sample with flourished capital letters and cursive text framed by looping scrollwork.

Design for a writing sample: Keepe my wordes (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of looping calligraphic flourishes surrounding a block of 17th-century English script text.

Design for a writing sample: Some man keepeth silence (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pen drawing of a calligraphy exemplar with German text framed by elaborate looping flourishes and decorative capitals.

Design for a writing sample: Es ist (...)

Jan van de Velde, 1605

Pencil drawing of a young couple in 18th-century dress sharing a sheet of music, the man leaning close to the woman.

Singing couple

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Tavern interior with two men at a table, one smoking a pipe and one raising a glass, a woman nursing near the hearth.

The Tavern

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Drawing of a woman as Diana with crescent moon tiara, laurel wreath and bow, rendered in chalk and watercolour on grey paper.

Diana

Abraham Delfos, 1795

Pencil drawing of a seated elderly woman in a white head cloth holding a knife, with a wooden spoon on the floor.

Seated woman with knife

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Woman in a blue fur-trimmed jacket spinning at a wheel beside a sleeping dog, in a wood-panelled interior, colour drawing.

The Spinner

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Watercolour drawing of a lecture with a man touching a skull under a floating pink balloon before a seated audience.

Intermezzo from the comedy 'De min in het Lazarushuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1807

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing man in a long coat and tall boots holding a top hat, with a handwritten note below.

Christiaan Andriessen takes off his hat for his friends

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Grey wash drawing of women with a parasol and a man in a top hat crossing a dim passage toward a bright doorway.

Christiaan Andriessen and his family leave De Fransche Tuin at one o'clock at night

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Sepia wash drawing of a schoolroom with young women in period gowns seated at benches and a man in a long coat by tall window

Pupils of Miss Zeydelaar's girls' boarding school wish master Christiaan Andriessen a pleasant fair

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Grey wash drawing of visitors entering a fairground tent, with a performer in a pointed hat on a balcony.

Visitors stream into a fair tent

Christiaan Andriessen, 1808

Watercolor interior with figures in shadow watching a woman in white at a glowing doorway beneath a chandelier.

Poffertjes stall at the fair with a man with a barrel organ

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Night street scene of a vendor with a wheelbarrow of shells, lit by a candle lantern, in brown wash drawing.

Street vendor selling window ashes from his wheelbarrow in the evening

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen sketch of a blindfolded violinist and a hurdy-gurdy player in a top hat with a woman in a cloak on a street.

Three street musicians of whom the violinist is blindfolded

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen and wash drawing of a street vendor in a tall hat raising a lottery ticket and calling out to passersby.

Street vendor sells lottery tickets for the lottery

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805