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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Red chalk sketch of an ornate pulpit staircase with scrolled carving on aged paper, with a museum stamp in the corner.

Schets voor de trap van een preekstoel

Jan Claudius de Cock, 1678

Sepia wash drawing of a ruined circular temple with Corinthian columns above arched vaults in an Italian landscape.

Italiaans landschap met ruïne van tempel

Pieter van Bloemen, 1667

Graphite sketch of a running male figure with a billowing cloak and raised arm on toned paper.

Fleeing Barbarian

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1520

Pen drawing in oval frame of Apollo chasing Daphne turning into laurel, with Cupid aiming a bow and a reclining river figure.

Apollo en Daphne

Jan Claudius de Cock, 1701

Pen and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi showing the Virgin and Child, Joseph, and three kings bearing gifts.

Aanbidding der koningen

Quirinus van Banken, 1600

Drawing of a bearded man in a yellow fur-collared garment, rendered in black and colored chalk, turned to the right.

Portrait of an Unknown Man, possibly identifiable as Thomas Seymour

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1535

Bauernmädchen mit Rechen

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded wild man with leafy wreath holding a club, framed by an ornate classical arch and columns.

Wild man

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1528

Pen and watercolor drawing of a three-masted ship with revelling sailors on deck and rigging, and a rowboat in the sea.

Ship with Revelling Sailors

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532

Drawing of a standing man in jeweled costume with a dagger, beside a woman in a dark headdress, before carved stone architect

Henry VIII and Henry VII

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1536

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a standing woman in a white bonnet, dark bodice and purple skirt, hands folded.

Woman with bonnet

Watercolor of a large tree beside a stream, two figures carrying sticks on a rocky slope, a dog, and distant mountains.

In the Highlands of Donegal

John Faulkner, n.d.

Little farmgirl

Red chalk portrait drawing of a young man with short hair and a lace collar, gazing forward, by Agostino Carracci.

Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci

Agostino Carracci, 1592/95

Pencil sketch of several trees on cream paper, with a handwritten signature and date 1943 in the lower left corner.

Bleistiftskizze

Karl Wiener, 1943

Pencil sketch of a window frame opening onto clouds, thin trees, and small flowers, with handwritten notes below.

Bleistiftskizze

Karl Wiener, 1942

Possibly Notolabrus sp (NZ) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

Pencil sketch of a grassy ground patch with an eroded earth bank and sketched foliage on pale paper.

Rasenstück mit Erdabbruchkante

Pen and wash drawing of a goatherd handing an infant to a woman at a doorway, with goats and a grazing flock nearby.

The Goatherd Lamon Handing the Infant Daphnis to His Wife Myrtele

Ambroise Dubois, after 1606

Watercolour of a girl in a yellow hat carrying apples in her apron, with birds flying near an apple branch and a blue vase.

Girl with apples

George Cruikshank

Pencil sketch of an elderly peasant woman in a bonnet and long skirt carrying a rake over her shoulder.

Alte Bäuerin mit geschultertem Rechen

Kleines Mädchen, von links gezeichnet

Brown wash drawing of a standing man in period dress leaning on a pedestal beside a classical bust labeled G.T. Raynal.

Jean-Baptiste Belley

Attributed to Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, c. 1797

Pencil study sheet with a bending woman holding a tub, a woman in a headscarf, and a man firing a rifle.

Studienblatt: Mädchen mit Zuber sowie ein mit einer Flinte schießender Mann

Watercolour of two men dancing in a panelled room with a table, jug, and a woman watching from a window.

Twelfth Night

John Massey Wright

Black chalk study of a seated elderly bearded man in a draped robe, with white highlights on grey paper.

Study for a Figure of Saint Joseph

Bartolomeo Schedoni, ca. 1595-1615

Watercolour of a rocky river junction with blue-grey cliffs, boulders, a shallow stream and hills under a pale sky.

Junction of Thomas and Porter Rivers

James Crowe Richmond

Pencil sketch of tents below mountains, a flag on a pole, and a smiling figure waving at right.

Bleistiftskizze ("Internationale Jugendrepublik Ebensee")

Karl Wiener, 1930

Pencil sketch of a damaged tower-like building and collapsed houses with rubble under a pale sky.

Bleistiftskizze (eingestürzte, zerstörte Häuser)

Karl Wiener, 1942

Grey watercolour of a cliffside villa above a bay with sailboats, a small rowboat, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

In the Bay of Naples

Jean Claude Nattes

Pencil sketch of swirling clouds, a wing, and a cross-topped gravestone on a mound, on a tan album page.

Bleistiftskizze (Grabstein)

Karl Wiener, 1940

Brustbild eines jungen Mannes nach links