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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Head of Saint John the Baptist

Hans Baldung Grien, 1516

Watercolor of a brown parrot perched on a mossy branch, bending down to drink, with its reflection in water.

Untitled illustration - parrot

Sepia drawing of a woman with long hair leaning over a reed-covered basket among bulrushes, with figures and a balustrade beh

Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes

Simeon Solomon, February 22, 1859

White drawing on red ground of dancing satyrs and bacchantes around a central herm of Dionysus, with musicians and vines.

Tanz von Satyrn und Bacchantinnen um die Herme des Dionysos

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Brown-toned drawing with white highlights of the dead Christ mourned by women, with a ladder and cross at upper right.

The Lamentation

Hans Baldung Grien, 1515

Pencil and wash botanical drawing of two cushion plants with small white flowers, labelled Myosotis pulvinaris.

Myosotis pulvinaris Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Pencil study of a leafy tree with dense foliage and two trunks on a light paper sheet, with a color checker strip at left.

Baumstudie im Prater

Tina Blau, 1865

Pencil drawing of King Midas seated among satyrs, nymphs and a lyre player in a classical frieze composition.

König Midas

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Grey wash drawing of a lion below a goat on a rocky cliff, with a wide landscape and clouds behind them.

The Lyon and the Kid, from Ogilby's Aesopics

Francis Barlow, ca. 1668

Pen and white-heightened drawing of a man in a fur hat, looking toward the viewer, on a blue-green ground.

Self-portrait

Hans Baldung Grien, 1502

Pen and brown ink drawing of robed figures with staves struggling over a reclining nude, with a rocky landscape and ruins beh

The Age of Iron

Alonso Berruguete, 1520s-30s

Pencil drawing of Pan tormented by nymphs beneath a tree, with a piper at left and a nude figure at right.

Pan, von den Nymphen gepeinigt

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Head of an old woman

Hans Baldung Grien, 1514

Pencil sketch of a tall spruce tree with layered branches on greenish paper, with a small shrub and thin trees at left.

Baumstudie; verso: 4 Schafe

Friedrich August Matthias Gauermann, 1825

Study of the Right Leg of a Male Child

Pencil drawing of a satyr playing a lyre, a draped woman with a lyre, and a seated figure among flowers in an arched frame.

Pindar

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Watercolor of a sunlit market street with whitewashed buildings, terracotta roofs, and robed people walking past stalls.

Malindi market, Zanzibar

Edwin Murray Fuller, 1931

Pen and white-heightened drawing on blue paper of an older man's head seen from behind, with swirling hair.

Old man's head, seen from behind, from above from the left

Hans Baldung Grien, 1484

Circular drawing of a nude woman riding a bull through a landscape, with a cherub above and trees behind.

The Rape of Europa

Hans Baldung Grien, 1503

Pencil study of large leafy trees with gnarled trunks, a small figure standing at lower right for scale.

Baumstudien aus dem Prater

Eugen Jettel, 1861

Pencil drawing of Orpheus playing a lyre among a lion, stag, rabbit and birds in a tree.

Orpheus unter den Tieren

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Red chalk drawing of a prophet, King David and two putti in decorative cupola compartments.

Design for the Decoration of a Cupola with a Prophet, King David and Two Putti

Watercolor elevation of a symmetrical classical building with a central pediment, with pedestrians and carriages on the stree

Bauprojekt des künftigen K.K. Postgebäudes, Aufriss

Anton Ortner, 1849

Drawing of a bearded man in a gray robe and white collar, gazing upward, rendered in chalk on blue-gray paper.

Bust-Length Portrait of an Ecclesiastic

Carletto Caliari, 16th century

Pencil sketch of a horse with a cart behind it on a sketchbook page, loosely drawn with scribbled graphite shading.

Sketch of horse with cart from A Wellington sketchbook c1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Watercolour site plan of a proposed post office building and new forecourt beside a city moat, with German title lettering.

Bauprojekt des künftigen K.K. Postgebäudes, Situationsplan

Anton Ortner, 1849

Pen sketch of a woman in period dress holding a laurel wreath aloft, with handwritten German notes below.

Bekränzte Frau mit Lorbeerkranz in der Hand

Eduard Kretzschmar

Pen and ink sketch of a draped woman, a man in a plumed hat with a sword, and several figure studies on paper.

Sheet with Figure Studies (double sided)

called Il Monrealese Pietro Novelli, 17th century

Watercolor of a horse-drawn cart on a rural road with a startled man in a top hat and a woman in a straw bonnet.

Illustration for "Pickwick Papers"

Grey wash drawing of a priest in a mitre circumcising an infant at an altar, with a kneeling child, a praying woman and onloo

The Circumcision

Gérard de Lairesse, mid-17th-early 18th century

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a nude young woman in a wreath, reclining with one arm outstretched, on tan paper.

Gelagerter Mädchenakt

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1731

Grey wash drawing of a crowd beneath classical columns, with flames above their heads and seated women in the foreground.

The Pentecost

Gérard de Lairesse, n.d.