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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pen and brown ink landscape drawing with rocks, a tall tree on the left, buildings among shrubs on the right.

Landschap

Matthijs Balen, 1694

Grey wash drawing of a theatrical stage set with columns, a coffered dome, statues, and a receding arched corridor.

Design for a Stage Set

Pietro Righini, 1688-1742

Aktstudie einer sitzenden alten Frau

Gustav Klimt, 1901

Brown ink drawing of an ornate altar frame design with a blank central panel, flanking statues, and a winged figure above.

Design for a Reredos or Frame and Setting for an Altar Painting

Pomarancio, 1552-1626

Aktstudie einer stehenden Schwangeren im Profil nach links

Gustav Klimt, 1904

Brown ink and wash drawing of a hilly landscape with a winding road, trees, and ruined arched structures on the horizon.

View of Rome, with via Appia

after Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, n.d.

Vertical pilaster drawing with winged putti, a torch, a small temple model and reeds on a tan ground.

Two Pilaster with White Putti on Tan Ground

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, 1595-1640

Charcoal and white chalk study of a standing female nude with arm raised, on tan paper mounted on grey board.

Aktstudien

Anton Heinrich Peschka, 1909

Watercolor drawing of a long-tailed sugarbird perched on a tree stump with grasses and flowering shrubs below.

Promerops cafer (Cape sugarbird)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a hoopoe with raised crest and curved bill perched on a lichen-covered branch.

Upupa africana (Hoopoe)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a black bird with yellow shoulder patches perched on a branch with green foliage.

Euplectes capensis (Yellow bishop)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Hand-coloured drawing of a male green sunbird with red and blue breast and a grey female on a branch.

Nectarinia afra (Greater double-collared sunbird)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a ground woodpecker with red breast and speckled grey plumage perched on a branch.

Geocolaptes olivaceus (Ground woodpecker)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1778

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a pin-tailed whydah on a branch with a locust on rocks below, with handwritten notes.

Vidua macroura (Pin-tailed whydah) and locust

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1778

Brown wash drawing of a rustic kitchen interior with stone arches, barrels, a wooden table, and a staircase.

Design for a Stage Set Showing Interior of Rustic Kitchen ("Cucina Rustica")

Lorenzo Sacchetti, 1759-1829

Watercolor drawing of a red and black bishop bird perched on a branch beside grass, with handwritten caption below.

Euplectes orix (Southern red bishop)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a grey crested bird with a long tail and red feet perched on a pine branch, with handwritten notes belo

Colius striatus ? (Speckled mousebird)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Pencil sketch of a woven bird nest among grass stalks, with a small egg drawn at lower right and handwritten labels.

Euplectes orix (Southern red bishop), nest

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a crested grey bird with a long tail perched on a branch among green leaves.

Colius colius ? (White-backed mousebird)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Hand-colored drawing of a green Narina trogon with red underparts and long tail perched on a gnarled branch.

Apaloderma narina (Narina trogon)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor of a green crested turaco with red wing feathers perched on a rock beside a blue shrub.

Tauraco corythaix (Knysna turaco or Knysna lourie)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Red chalk drawing of an elderly man gesturing to a kneeling woman beside a standing figure, with dark wash accents.

Abraham Dismissing Hagar

Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661

Pen and ink drawing of a nude man bending forward on a wooden block, shaded with hatched lines on brown paper.

Aktstudien (Vorder- und Rückseite)

Anton Heinrich Peschka, 1907

Watercolor drawing of a rosy-faced lovebird with green body and blue tail perched on a grey branch, 1777.

Agapornis roseicollis (Rosy-faced lovebird)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Pen and brown wash drawing of a woman in a gown surrounded by Gothic scrolling foliage, with a parrot at lower right.

Gothic Ornament with a Lady and a Parrot

Master LCz, c. 1495

Hand-coloured drawing of a black crested Jacobin cuckoo with long tail perched on a rock beside a shrub.

Clamator jacobinus (Jacobin cuckoo)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate candlestick design with a tall candle, a figure medallion and a scrolled base.

Design for a Candlestick

Ottavio Strada, 1510-63

Pen and brown wash drawing of a tiered ornamental stand with reclining nudes, garlands, and a winged putto on top.

Design for an Inkstand

Ottavio Strada, ca. 1540-60

Brown ink drawing of an ornate tazza and a salt cellar with reclining figures, scroll handles and clawed feet.

Design for a Salt Cellar and Tazza

Ottavio Strada, n.d.

Albert (Bertel) Thorwaldsen (1770-1884), Bildhauer

Johann Adam Klein, 1821

Pen and wash drawing of a funerary monument with a skeleton, scythe, hourglass, skulls and mourning winged figures.

Design for a Funerary Monument

Francesco Salviati, 1510-63

Crowned king writing in an open book inside a decorative gold initial S, flanked by green dragons on a gold background.

Initial S with King David as Scribe

Master of the Cypresses, 1430s