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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pen and wash drawing of an ornamental panel with acanthus scrolls, a floral motif and part of an oval medallion.

Left Side of a Panel Decorated with Acanthus Scrolls and an Oval Medallion

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Ink and wash drawing of a crowd of workers around a central allegorical female figure with torch and banners, dated 1890.

Allegorische Darstellung mit sozialdemokratischer Symbolik (Allegorie auf den 1. Mai 1890?)

Carl von Stur, 1890

Pen and ink drawing of an ornamental pedestal with scroll brackets and a central framed cartouche panel.

Design for a Pedestal (recto); Design for the Plan of a Monument (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate lectern with scrolling volutes, floral garlands, and a curved base.

Design for a Lectern (recto); Design for a Cartouche (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate niche fountain with flanking terms, putti, and a shell-shaped crown above a tiered basin.

Design for a Fountain in a Niche flanked by Terms

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Brown wash drawing of three classical musicians with lyre, lute and wind instrument beside a draped altar, with Italian inscr

Allegorische Szene mit Musizierenden (Didymos der Musiker?), vermutlich Entwurf zu Deckenstuck in der Camera delle Vi…

Pirro Ligorio, 1573

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative lidded urn with scrolled handles and a flower garland, with a smaller vase design at low

Two Designs for Vases (recto); Design for Candle Stick (?) (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Triangular allegorical drawing with a smiling sun, a globe, putti and a German inscription banner, painted in watercolor and

Allegorischer Entwurf für eine Giebelfüllung eines Keller- und Vorratshauses

Johann Martin Schmidt, 1750

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate lidded vase with scrolling handles and foliate decoration on a pedestal base.

Design for a Vase with a Cross-section of its Neck (recto); Design for a Vase with studies of a Muscular Nude Male Fi…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and brown ink drawing of a dolphin-entwined vessel base with scrolling waves and sea forms on pale paper.

Design for the Base of a Vessel with Three Dolphins

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and brown wash drawing of a vessel base supported by two crouching satyr figures with raised arms.

Design for the Base of a Vessel with Two Satyrs

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Watercolor botanical study of Allium victorialis with broad leaves, a tall stem, and a pale flower cluster on cream paper.

Allium Victorialis - Lauch

Alfred Franck, 1845

Pen and grey wash drawing of an oval basin supported by two male sirens with scrolling tails.

Table or Basin Supported by Male Sirens (recto); Sketch for the same subject (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pencil sketch of a log alpine hut with pine trees, a goat in the foreground, a cow by a fence, and mountains behind.

Almhütte, Rückseite: Ansicht von Wien

Rudolf von Alt, 1825

Pen and ink design of a lion's head flanked by two putti on scrolled ornament, with grey wash shading.

Design for a Lion's Head flanked by Satyrs

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Red chalk study on blue paper showing a downcast head, hands, a shoulder, and feet in separate sketches.

Sketches of Head, Hands, Shoulder, and Feet

Style of Agostino Masucci, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a tiered funerary monument with draped allegorical figures, flaming urns, and a cross-topped spire.

Design for a Funerary Monument

Ignaz Günther, ca. 1710-40

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate ceiling design with cherubs, scrolling stucco ornament and architectural frames.

Design for a Decorated Ceiling with Statues and Stucco

Vittorio Maria Bigari, 18th century

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling friar gazing up at a winged seraph among clouds, with a companion in the shadows.

Stigmatization of Saint Francis of Assisi

Probably Italian, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a suspended censer with fluted bowl, winged cherub heads, and scroll chains.

Design for Suspended Censer

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a footed cup with a shell-shaped bowl and a large scrolling volute ornament.

Design for a Cup or Reliquary Composed of a Shell and S-Volute

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and ink design of an ornate fountain with two lions spouting water beside a central garlanded urn and tiered basin.

Design for a Fountain with Two Water-Spouting Lions (recto); Sketch for Triumph of Galatea [?] (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Grey-toned chalk portrait of a man with tousled hair, white cravat and dark coat, gazing toward the viewer.

Alois Primisser (1796-1827), Numismatiker

Julie Mihes, 1825

Pen and ink drawing of the sea nymph Galatea on a shell chariot drawn by two dolphins through swirling waves.

Galatea on her Chariot drawn by Dolphins

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Watercolour design of an arcaded hall with a seated king, a man in green coat, crouching figures on steps and a central medal

Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind (Entwurf zum Ferdinand Raimund-Zyklus (Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind) auf Schloss Kogl, A…

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Pencil sketch of a symmetrical stage set with arched colonnades, stone steps, figures, and a horned creature.

Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind (Studie zum Ferdinand Raimund-Zyklus (Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind) auf Schloss Kogl, At…

Josef Engelhart, 1912

Pen and watercolor drawing of elegantly dressed guests conversing in a formal interior, with a servant carrying a tray.

Koffiebijeenkomst in een interieur

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Watercolor and ink figure studies with a central woman's head and surrounding men in various poses, 1854.

Figuurstudies

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Gray wash drawing of a neoclassical candelabrum with two draped female figures holding laurel wreaths and a flaming urn.

Candelabrum with Two Victory Figures (for 'Ornamenti Diversi')

Giocondo Albertolli, ca. 1782

Watercolor of four men in historical costume with swords standing in a rocky landscape, one wearing a feathered hat.

Vier mannen met zwaarden in een rotsachtig landschap

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Watercolor drawing of a bearded man holding a sword beside a half-buried man, with skulls and bones on an old battlefield.

Man die een zwaard opgraaft op een oud slagveld

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854

Pencil and wash drawing of a windswept tree on a sandy dune under a cloudy sky, mounted in an album.

Boom op een heuvel

Alexander Ver Huell, 1854