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16,297 works

Pencil sketch of two men in berets, one raising a glass, with blue crayon accents on the right figure.

Twee mannen met een baret, de een met een geheven glas

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of a scowling giant's face with stubble and a headdress with horn-like shapes on cream paper.

Gezicht van een reus met hoofddeksel

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil perspective sketch of building framing and beams on a sketchbook page with Dutch handwriting below.

Bouwtekening van een huis

Jan Brandes, 1779

Twee schetsen van de kop van een olifant

Petrus Camper, 1786

Manuscript page with Chinese numerals, Dutch notes, and pencil drawings of two coins, one with Hebrew lettering.

Chinese getallen en zilveren penning

Jan Brandes, 1779

Red chalk sketch of an elephant head with curled trunk and a separate study of a foot on pale paper.

Schets van een olifant, poot en slurf

Petrus Camper, 1732

Red chalk drawing of a standing elephant seen from behind, with a separate study of a front leg at left.

Staande olifant, van achteren, en een poot

Petrus Camper, 1732

Red chalk drawing of a standing elephant seen from the front, trunk curled to the right, on a pale sheet.

Staande olifant, van voren

Petrus Camper, 1732

Red chalk sketch of a walking elephant with lowered head and trunk on aged cream paper.

Lopende olifant

Petrus Camper, 1732

Pen sketch of a horse in harness and a hired coach with wheels, annotated in Dutch on a sketchbook page.

Engels huurkoets en paardentuig in Falmouth

Jan Brandes, 1778

Red chalk studies of two elephants on grid paper, with a small grey pencil sketch of a trunk above.

Twee studies van een olifant en een slurf

Petrus Camper, 1732

Pen and wash drawing of an Italianate landscape with a classical arch, columns, figures, boats and a distant tower.

Italianiserend landschap met Romeinse ruïnes

Hendrik Carré, 1706

Pen and wash drawing of an Italianate landscape with a ruined classical building, a large tree and small travelers on a road.

Italiaans gezicht met ruïne

Hendrik Carré, 1706

Portret van Jan Tersteegh

Hendrik Willem Caspari, 1780

Grey wash portrait of a man with curly hair and a white cravat, in an oval vignette on a pale sheet.

Portret van F.D. Changuion

Hendrik Willem Caspari, 1780

Grey wash drawing of a man with curly hair, dark coat and white cravat, facing forward against a plain background.

Zelfportret van Hendrik Willem Caspari

Hendrik Willem Caspari, 1780

Grey wash drawing of a winter scene with figures on a frozen waterway, sledges, horses, a tower and houses under clouds.

Winterlandschap

Jacob Cats, 1779

Pencil and chalk drawing of a forest floor with tall tree trunks, shrubs and cast shadows on sandy ground.

Zonder titel

Herman Kruyder, 1913

Pencil sketch of an interior with female servants, a seated woman at a round table, and sketched drapery on the right.

Interieur met dienstmeiden

Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836

Pencil sketch by Hendrik Valkenburg showing a seated man, a hanging sign reading Nijverheid, an anvil, tools and an animal.

Nijverheid

Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836

Watercolor street scene of gabled brick buildings and pedestrians on a hazy Amsterdam-style street, 1889.

Gezicht op de Texelsche Kade, hoek Damrak

Johan Martinus Anthon Rieke, 1889

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated man at a table with attendant musicians and servants in a curtained interior.

David Playing his Harp before Saul, with a Servant and Other Musicians

Willem Drost, 1650

Watercolor of a Dutch canal with a barge, rowing boat, raised drawbridge, domed church and figures on a quay under clouds.

Gezicht op de Haarlemmersluis en de Ronde Lutherse Kerk

Everhardus Koster, 1827

Panoramic watercolor of a hazy rocky coastline with headlands, a calm sea and billowing clouds, dated 1778.

Gezicht op westkust Golf van Napels

Louis Ducros, 1778

Pen and watercolor drawing of rocky cliffs and surf on a sandy shore with small figures, mountains in the distance.

Kaap Grosso tussen Messina en Taormina

Louis Ducros, 1778

Pen and wash drawing of a musical performance in a lit interior, with musicians beside a candle-lit music stand seen through

Huisconcert bij de koopman Pieter de Haan

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and grey wash drawing of children and men in a room with an open doorway, a violin, and a music stand.

Voorbereidingen voor een concert aan huis bij de koopman Pieter de Haan

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Watercolour interior with four women in long dresses and a man playing a fortepiano beside a table and windows.

Christiaan Andriessen begeleidt vier vrouwen op de fortepiano

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Brown wash drawing of men singing around a piano in a candlelit room, with two men in coats in the foreground.

Groep mensen speelt een Joodse dienst na

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Sepia wash drawing of a man at a candlelit tabletop piano as a woman in a white cap pours wine over his shoulder.

P.A. Croese zit achter de tafelpiano terwijl een vrouw wijn in zijn mond giet

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and watercolor drawing of a man in a coat talking with two women in a townhouse doorway, 1806.

Christiaan Andriessen in gesprek met twee dames in de deuropening van hun huis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen drawing of men playing checkers in a coffee house, with a standing observer and a man reading by candlelight.

Twee heren aan het dammen in een koffiehuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Brown wash drawing of two men playing checkers at a table in a room with a bookshelf and chairs.

Twee heren dammen

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Brown wash drawing of men in period dress in conversation near a post, with two boys watching from the right.

Christiaan Andriessen en Pieter de Haan hebben een meningsverschil over de beloning van Andriessen

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and grey wash drawing of two men talking at a coffeehouse table by a window, one smoking a long pipe.

Aangeschoten koffiehuisbezoeker praat over de mislukte expeditie van de Engelsen naar Lissabon, 1805

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen and brown wash drawing of a man in a top hat reading a newspaper by a window, captioned Bataafsche Staats-Courant.

Christiaan Andriessen leest het allereerste nummer van de Bataafsche Staats-Courant in een koffiehuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Grey wash drawing of two men at a candlelit table, one holding a printed sheet and looking up, the other leaning forward.

Duitser in het koffiehuis terwijl hij leest over de Slag bij Austerlitz van 2 december 1805

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen and wash drawing of a kitchen interior with a gesturing young man, a caped man in a top hat, and a seated writer.

Christiaan Andriessen heeft een gesprek in een koffiehuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Two-panel brown wash drawing of men talking in a coffee house and a woman in a bonnet with a teapot at a table.

Bespreking in een koffiehuis en Christiaan Andriessen bekijkt tekeningen voor een kunstbeschouwing

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Brown wash drawing of men in a coffeehouse, one in a top hat reading a newspaper at a table while another reclines on a bench

Bericht in de Bataafsche Staats Courant over Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck wordt gelezen in het koffiehuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pencil design for a carriage rear panel with scrolls, cherubs, a central shell, and a female mask, by Ciro Ferri.

Ontwerp voor de achterzijde van een rijtuig

Ciro Ferri, 1675

Pencil drawing of an arcade with columns and arches framing a fountain and figures on a terrace.

Gezicht vanaf een zuilengalerij op een fontein

Leonaert Bramer, 1642

Pencil sketch of figures gathered around a table in an interior room with a hanging drape.

Gezelschap in een kamer

Leonaert Bramer, 1642

Watercolor sheet of symmetrically arranged butterflies in orange, black, blue and brown wing patterns on pale paper.

Butterflies

Cornelia de Rijck, 1700

Watercolor drawing of a brown horse with a pale mane standing on grass beside fence posts, with handwritten labels.

Paard (Equus ferus caballus)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Watercolor drawing of a shaggy goat with curved horns standing on grass beside a tree, with labels below.

Geit (Capra hircus)

J. Verbrugghe, 1790

Watercolour of a brown and white spotted cow with curved horns on rocky ground, framed on an album page with labels.

Koe (Bos taurus)

J. Verbrugghe, 1790

Watercolor drawing of a wild boar with tusks walking on grass, labeled in Dutch, Latin and French in a bordered plate.

Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Pen and brown wash drawing of a rocky river landscape with boulders, trees, a ruined building and two small figures.

Rotsachtig landschap met een tekenaar bij een rivier

Richard van Orley, 1673

Pen and brown wash drawing of a fortified hilltop town above a wide plain with trees and a winding path.

Gezicht op Le Mont Hulin

Jan Peeters, 1654

Grey wash drawing of Christ gesturing toward Zacchaeus in a tree while a crowd of onlookers looks on.

Christus en Zacheüs

Erasmus Quellinus, 1660

Watercolor of a terraced valley framed by rocky cliffs, with layered blue mountains receding into a hazy sky.

Gezicht vanaf de Vicarton Kloof in het Matale district te Sri Lanka

Constance Gordon-Cumming, 1873

Pencil sketch of a seated shaggy dog with green wash patches and a partial animal study on a cut paper layout.

Zittende hond

Cornelis Brouwer, 1777

Brown ink book cover design with Art Nouveau linework and lettering reading Thérèse Hoven and Guldens Serie, by R.W.P. de Vri

Bandontwerp voor: Thérèse Hoven, Vrouwen lief en leed onder de tropen, 1896

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1896

Red chalk drawing in an oval of a young woman with curled hair playing a lute, signed by Cornelis Brouwer, 1781.

Luitspeelster

Cornelis Brouwer, 1781

Design sheet with art nouveau book cover drafts, decorative lettering, and a periodical masthead for women's dress reform.

Bandontwerpen voor: Thérèse Hoven, Vrouwen lief en leed onder de tropen (1896) en Uit vrije beweging (1894)

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1894

Grey board with pasted paper strips showing book title lettering, ornamental borders, a monogram and a Verjaardag Album cover

Bandontwerpen en een ornament

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1896

Chalk drawing of a bust-length man in a wide-brimmed feathered hat and lace collar on blue-grey paper.

Portetbuste van een (Spaanse?) heer met een grote hoed

Gérard ter Borch, 1645

Schets van Moses ter Borch, in profiel naar links

Gérard ter Borch, 1627

Studie van een lachende Moses ter Borch, in profiel naar links

Gérard ter Borch, 1627

Pencil drawing of a sledge shaped like a winged dragon with a curved runner and a dragon head at one end.

Slede in de vorm van een gevleugelde draak

Gérard ter Borch, 1654

Pencil sketch of a couple seated in a sledge, the man wearing a feathered hat and holding a whip.

Paartje op een slede

Gérard ter Borch, 1654

Pen and ink drawing of two women in an interior with a young boy carrying a tray holding a jug.

Dame bezig met haar toilet

Gérard ter Borch, 1659

Pencil drawing of a kneeling man before a seated woman with a fan, a cupid with bow and a deer in a landscape.

Heer knielend voor een dame

Gérard ter Borch, 1654

Pen drawing of a harp-like instrument with fanning strings, streaming ribbons and a rosette medallion inside a circle.

Kissir [?] turc espece d’harpe

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of a bass drum with star-patterned rim, crossed drumsticks and flowing ribbons inside a circle.

Tabbel grand tambour turc

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of an oval tambourine with ribbons and floral scroll decoration inside a circle.

Tambour de basque

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of a circular emblem with a ribbon bow, a frame with hanging tags, and curling serpent-like ribbons.

King Chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing in a circle of a Chinese shrine with ribbon bow, rope, and a compartmented cabinet with carved ornament.

Fe-Fchoung. Chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing in a circle of ribbons, tasseled pipes and a flute with finger holes, titled Pan et Lutchun Chinois.

Pan et Lutchun Chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of an ornate Chinese-style lantern with dragon motifs, tassels and a ribbon bow, inscribed Yun-lo. Chinois.

Yun-lo. Chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of a zither, drum and two crossed flutes with ribbons and a bow inside a circle.

Kin, Pa-fou et Tchi chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Ink drawing in a circle of a Chinese bell instrument frame with hanging bells, ribbons and a flame finial.

Fang-hiang instrument chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of crossed Chinese wind instruments and tasselled ribbons arranged inside a circular emblem.

Le Sino [?], Koan et autre instrument Chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of a Chinese lidded jar with dragon decoration on a stand with lion finials, inside a circle.

Kou chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of a Chinese drum on a wooden stand with curling ribbon streamers, inscribed Hinen-Kou, tambour chinois.

Hinen-Kou, tambour chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of a pear-shaped Chinese stringed instrument with ribbons and rosettes inside a circle, on torn paper.

Instrument chinois dont on ignore le nom, tir[…] du duc de chaulnes

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of a Chinese cheng mouth organ and small drum framed by ribbons in a circle, with French caption.

Ya-Kou, petit tambour chinois, et le Cheng instrument chinois

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pen drawing of crossed Chinese instruments, a zither, pipa and flute, with a bow, inside a circle, captioned in French.

Che, yo, ou flute chinoise, et instrument chinois dont on ign[…]

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Portrait of Lucas van Uden

Anthony van Dyck, 1627

Watercolor drawing of a grey baboon climbing upward on a branch, mouth open, long tail curled, against a pale background.

Mantelbaviaan

Pieter Pietersz. Barbiers, 1759

Pen and wash drawing of six decorative wall designs with classical niches, statues, columns and urns.

Zes ontwerpen voor een decoratiewand

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Design drawing of three decorated room walls with pink paneling, landscape panels, a central door and putti sketches.

Ontwerp voor de decoratie van drie wanden van een kamer

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Three oval medallion designs in pencil and chalk with allegorical figures and Dutch inscriptions, framed by laurel wreaths.

Ontwerpen voor drie medaillons: Vrijheid, Gelijkheid en Broederschap

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pencil sketch of four emblematic vignettes including a rooster coat of arms, a ship, an altar and a radiant symbol.

Vier varianten van symbolen met betrekking tot de VOC

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pencil sketch of two clocks with putti climbing among chairs and debris in an interior.

Twee varianten van symbolen met betrekking tot de VOC

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Narrow sheet with a column of handwritten pencil words in Dutch, one word per line, on pale paper.

Schets van putti met symbolen met betrekking tot de VOC

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and watercolor design for a paneled wall with a central landscape, putti relief, and portrait medallion.

Ontwerp voor kamerwand

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor design of a wall with two landscape panels of trees and a house, a blank arched center and a carved top ornament.

Ontwerp voor de kamerwand in de zaal van Jan de Groot, Keizersgracht 187

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Design drawing of a room wall with two landscape panels, a central fireplace and a gilt overmantel mirror.

Ontwerp voor kamerwand voor Jddekinge

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Brown ink wash drawing of a dense group of trees with small figures on a path and a distant hilly landscape.

Landschap met bomengroep

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pencil drawing of a symmetrical decorative design with scrolling foliage and a central animal motif on squared paper.

Decoratief ontwerp met een dier

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Black ink drawing of a symmetrical ornamental design with stylized acanthus leaves framing a central panel.

Decoratief ontwerp met bladmotief

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Ink drawing of a symmetrical decorative design with a central crowned W monogram, scrolls and a bold ornamental border.

Decoratief ontwerp met gekroonde W

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Pencil drawing on graph paper of a repeating geometric pattern with octagonal medallions and banded borders.

Decoratief ontwerp met geometrisch motief

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Pencil design on squared paper of symmetrical scrolling foliage with numbered colour notes and dimensions.

Decoratief ontwerp met kleuraanduidingen

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874