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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil sketch in three horizontal bands of Chinese figures: seated officials, musicians with drums, dancers, and garden scene

Three Friezes of Chinese Figures

Isaac Robert Cruikshank, 1800-1856

Pencil sketch on cream paper of wall and ceiling decoration with ornamental panels and a fireplace for a salon.

Entwurf für die Wand- und Deckendekoration eines Salons

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1850

Pencil sketch of a woman in a cloak speaking to a couple in period dress beside a large tree in a park.

In the Park

Thomas Dalziel, ca. 1859

Pen and grey wash drawing of a man pointing at a tree beside a boy with a bucket, with a village and church tower behind.

Abraham and Isaac

Attributed to Hermann Weyer

Pencil drawing of three church tower spires with Gothic arches, gables and cross finials on yellowed paper.

Entwurf für drei (Kirch-) Turmbekrönungen, Ansicht und Perspektive

Victor Luntz, 1865

Pen and ink drawing of a turreted Gothic Revival brick house with trees and a garden path, dated 1870.

Perspective elevation, Poles Hall, near Andover, Hampshire

T. W. Dawson, 1870

Pen and watercolor design sketch of a woman in a flowered hat reading a book on a patterned cushion, with bookplate lettering

Entwurf für ein Exlibris

Dagobert Peche, 1910

Decorated manuscript-style border with flowers, birds, a dog and Latin text, framing a faint pencil nativity sketch.

Decorated Border with Nativity Scene

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Pen drawing of an ex libris bookplate with lettering for Rudolf Zimpel, a large hand above a hilltop town.

Entwurf für ein Exlibris für Rudolf Zimpel

Julius Zimpel, 1918

Drawing of illuminated manuscript initials with jeweled borders, a decorated letter O, and a block of black-letter Latin text

Illuminated Initial "O"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Grey wash drawing of a bearded seated man embraced by a woman beside a colonnade, with maidservants and onlookers nearby.

The Return of Ulysses

After Theodor van Thulden, c. 1633

Loose gouache sketch on brown paper of figures in an interior, with a red seated figure and a mother holding a child.

Entwurf für ein Familienbildnis (?)

Anton Heinrich Peschka, 1925

Black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man's head turned to the side, with furrowed brow and curly hair on a buff sheet.

Head of an Old Man, possibly Seneca

Circle of Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1620

Floral border design with white jasmine blossoms, green leaves, a ladybug and a blue butterfly around a blank center.

Floral Border Design

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Watercolor architectural perspective of a yellow-brick Gothic Revival building with spires in a park, 1873.

Entwurf für ein Gebäude in einer parkähnlichen Landschaft (Bürgerschule in Gotha ?), Perspektive

Victor Luntz, 1873

Illuminated initial letter with a robed saint holding a crozier, framed by blue, red and gold foliate ornament.

Illuminated Initial "N"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Watercolor and ink bird's-eye design of a Kaiserin Elisabeth monument with an obelisk and equestrian statue on a Vienna stree

Entwurf für ein Kaiserin Elisabeth-Denkmal an der Wienzeile, Vogelschau und Situationsplan

Friedrich Ohmann, 1898

Pen and brown wash drawing of a windmill behind canal-side houses, with a large tree and a dog on the cobbled quay.

Gezicht op de Rasphuismolen bij de Nieuwe Prinsengracht

Gerrit Lamberts, 1816

Watercolor of a pale country house with red roof, thatched shed, trees and two small figures on a grassy path.

Buitenhuis in een landschap

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1750

Woman in white cap pouring milk from a jug into a copper pan in a kitchen, drawn in soft watercolor and chalk.

Dienstmeisje giet melk in een pan

Jean-Baptiste Mallet, 1799

Watercolor design of an arched stained glass window with a kneeling man, a red-robed cardinal, and angels in clouds.

Entwurf für ein Kirchenfenster für die Johanneskirche in der Leopoldstadt: Karl Lueger mit dem hl. Karl Borromäus (ni…

Josef Straka, 1913

Drawing of a decorative illuminated letter C in red and blue with foliate patterns, roundels and gold accents.

Illuminated Initial "C"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Grey wash drawing framed by a stone arch showing terraces, a staircase, poplars, strolling figures and a boat on water.

Doorzicht onder een brug naar terrassen en een trap

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1750

Pen drawing of a bust of Charles Nicolas Cochin in a wig and cloak on a pedestal, within a double ruled border.

Portret van Charles Nicolas Cochin

Charles Monnet, 1742

Pen and watercolour drawing of a formal French garden with a classical facade, topiary in pots, and a man and woman near an a

Gezicht in een Franse tuin met heer en dame

J. de Marsy, 1700

Pencil drawing of two girls in white dresses, one holding up a comic mask with a long nose, with draped curtains behind.

Twee meisjes met een masker

H.A. Moulinneuf, 1803

Brown ink design for a vignette with an oval medallion of a woman and cupid, framed by garlands, ribbons and a mask.

Ontwerp voor een vignet

Clément Pierre Marillier, 1775

Drawing of a seated woman in a striped red and white dress holding a fan on a stone balustrade.

Zittende dame op een balustrade

Michel Barthélémy Ollivier, 1722

Colored pencil elevation drawing of a church with a central onion dome, smaller domed towers and arched windows.

Entwurf für ein Kirchengebäude, Aufriss (aus: Skizzen über den griech.-orthodoxen und lat. Kirchenbau, f. 1)

Hermann von Bergmann, 1872

Illuminated letter D with a haloed woman holding a palm frond and book, surrounded by red and blue foliage and decorative bor

Illuminated Initial "D"

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Pencil study of two seated women in period dress, one reading a book and one looking toward the viewer.

Studieblad met twee zittende meisjes

Michel Barthélémy Ollivier, 1722

Night scene of men in period dress observing the moon through a telescope on a tripod in a courtyard, drawn in blue wash.

Een dier in de maan / Un Animal dans la Lune

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1731