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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Portrait of a boy

H. Linley Richardson, 1930

Pencil sketchbook page with several studies of standing female figures, one nude, and a head study at top.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Studien zu einer, mit einem Tuch bekleideten Frauengestalt auf Vorder- und Rückseite

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a small town with gabled houses, red roofs and a tall tower under a blue sky.

Häuser einer Kleinstadt

Alexander Kanoldt, 1903

Pencil landscape drawing of rocky cliffs, palm trees and a waterfall above a pool, with mountains in the distance.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris (recto); Design for a doorway (verso)

Eugène Cicéri, 1828-90

Red chalk drawing of women in long gowns and a standing man beneath an arched colonnade with vines.

Fantaisie Espagnole

Charles Conder, 1905

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Studien zu Theater und Straßenszenen auf Vorder- u. Rückseite

Josef Engelhart, 1884

Pencil drawing of a hillside village with white houses, pitched roofs, chimneys and balconies under dark wooded slopes.

Klausen (Südtirol)

Alexander Kanoldt, 1920

Pen and ink drawing of a seated woman with a small dog, a standing man at a table, and another man behind her in a parlour.

Ready tact - drawing for Punch

Georges du Maurier

Sketchbook page with charcoal studies of a seated woman in a hat, a head study, and a small pencil figure.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Studien zu unterschiedlichen Damenbildnissen

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Pen sketches on a sketchbook page of uniformed men, a woman, several heads, and two running horses.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Studien zu verschiedenen volkstümlichen Figuren u. Köpfen (u.a. "Eduard Strauß"), Pferdeski…

Josef Engelhart, 1884

Watercolour of a half-timbered brick manor house with gables and chimneys reflected in water, framed by a large tree.

Old Farnham Hall, Suffolk

Frederick George Reynolds

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page with loose hatched lines and a figure study inside an oval, beside a color checker.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Szene in Oval, (Rückseite: Studien zu Putti und Frauenfigur)

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Woodcut genealogical tree with seated medieval figures and Latin captions, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.

Secunda etas mundi. Page from Liber Chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle]

Michel Wolgemut, 1493

Watercolor drawing of a man in red and a woman in white seated on a blue sofa beside a classical column.

Paar auf einem Canapé

Louis Carmontelle

Pencil sketchbook page by Josef Engelhart showing a group of seated figures at a table with a standing woman and a lower figu

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Szene mit einer weibl. Erscheinung auf Vorder- u. Rückseite

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing a gondolier, seated passengers and standing figures in a Venetian scene.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Szene mit Gondel in Venedig

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Pencil sketch of a felled tree stump with loose foliage scribbles above on pale paper.

Felling of trees

Watercolor of Alexander the Great and Campaspe in Apelles' studio, with a painter, onlookers and a canvas of nude women.

Alexander der Große und Campaspe im Atelier des Apelles

Joseph Werner, 1668

Watercolor of ducks resting on grass beside a pond, with willows and a flat meadow under a grey sky.

Eenden bij een wilgenbosje

Geo Poggenbeek, 1883

Pencil sketch of a gondola with a gondolier and passengers on a Venetian canal, with onlookers in an arched doorway.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Szene mit Gondel in Venedig (Rückseite: männl. Rückenfigur)

Josef Engelhart, 1887

Watercolor design of a pink stage curtain with a gold urn emblem in a laurel wreath and a banded green and yellow valance.

Design for a Stage Curtain

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Watercolor of a farmhouse and barn beside a canal with reeds and willows under a grey sky.

Aan de vaart

Geo Poggenbeek, 1863

Brown ink and wash drawing of two winged figures holding ornamental trumpets with scrolling decorative forms.

Two winged figures with ornamental trumpets

Francesco Salviati

Pencil drawing of a largely bare, gnarled tree seen from below, branches twisting across a pale beige sheet.

Weitgehend kahler Baum in starker Untersicht

Pencil sketchbook page with loose figures in a café interior, a standing man at left, seated patrons at right, and handwritte

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Szenen aus einem (Pariser?) Café; (Rückseite: Skizzen zu einer Tänzerin)

Josef Engelhart, 1888

Watercolor of a dirt path through a meadow at dusk, with cows, willows, poplars and a fence under a pale pink sky.

Landweg met koeien in de schemering

Geo Poggenbeek, 1863

Watercolor street scene of Cologne with a Gothic carved building, a tower, an ornate carriage and figures in the foreground.

Cologne

Samuel Prout, 1822

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing two dancing couples in loose strokes, one pair turning and one pair seated.

Blatt eines Skizzenbuchs: Tanzpaare (Rückseite: Mann, sich verbeugend)

Josef Engelhart, 1888

Watercolor of ducks resting on a grassy bank by a pond, with reeds and a willow tree at right.

Eenden bij het water

Geo Poggenbeek, 1888

Drawing of a young woman as Diana reclining with a bow and arrows in a rocky wooded landscape.

Madame Adélaïde als Diana

Jean-Marc Nattier, 1745

Watercolour of a crumbling circular stone ruin beside a stream at dusk, with trees and birds in the sky.

Ruins by a stream

Pencil sketch of a woman in traditional dress and headscarf leaning on a low wall, on tan paper.

Auf eine Mauer gestützte Frau in Tracht