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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil design for a wall decoration with a floral lattice panel, scrolled border and frieze, beside an empty outline on cream

Entwurf für eine Wanddekoration

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1850

Architectural sketch design with ground plan, bedroom plan and elevations for a smithy and two cottages, in watercolor and in

Design for a Smithy and Two Cottages

Charles Edward Mallows, late 19th-early 20th century

Pencil architectural elevation of a paneled wall with wainscot, carved pilaster and cornice, on a large beige sheet.

Entwurf für eine Wanddekoration für ein Speisezimmer mit Gobelins

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1860

Watercolor design drawing of a gold tall church lamp stand with branching arms, scrollwork and glass shades on a tripod base.

Design for Church Lamp Stand

B. Mansfield, 1889

Pencil sketch sheet with a grid of small panels showing figures, mountains, hatched bands and a ladder motif.

Entwurf für eine Wanddekoration im Atelier Wattmanngasse

fraglich: Egon Schiele, 1918

Watercolor elevation of a two-story stone building with five arched bays, iron railings, and pedestrians on the street.

Perspective elevation, from left, of stonefaced building of five bays and two stories

J. B. Marsh, 1866

Painted wall decoration design in green, cream and red with scrolling foliage, flowers and initialled roundels, on cream pape

Entwurf für eine Wanddekoration mit Initialen (Fürst Liechtenstein?)

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1850

Study of a Lady in a Riding Habit

Phil May, late 19th-early 20th century

Watercolor design of a café window seat with blue banquettes, round table, curtains and tiled friezes above.

Entwurf für einen Fensterplatz in einem Kaffeehaus

Reinhold Richard d. J. Völkel, 1910

Costume sketch of a figure in black tunic with yellow sash and tricorn hat with red feather, with handwritten notes.

Costume Drawing for Little John

Phil May, late 19th century

Pencil design sketches of a fountain with a column, a figure raising a top hat, and scroll ornaments, dated 1906.

Entwurf für einen Fiakerbrunnen

Josef Engelhart, 1906

Pen and ink sketch of men in top hats and a woman with a dog in a crowded saloon beneath a chandelier.

The Hoffman House Saloon, New York

Phil May, ca. 1895

Watercolor and pencil design for a tiled floor with rosette motifs in brown and ochre, over a faint construction grid.

Entwurf für einen Fliesenboden

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1850

Pencil design drawing of an ornate door knocker with a flame finial and scrolled base, with a section detail and handwritten

Design for Door Knocker, for "The Builder's Journal"

Eleanor Mercer, 1886-96

Colored design drawing of a diamond-patterned tile floor with rosettes and a border frieze, in blue, ochre and brown.

Entwurf für einen Fliesenboden (Votivkirche?)

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1850

Watercolor elevation drawing of a classical theater facade with a central pediment, colonnade, and dome under a cloudy sky.

Design for the Façade of a Theater (Perspective)

Charles Middleton, late 18th-early 19th century

Ink drawing of a symmetrical country house elevation with a columned portico, with a floor plan and scale bar below.

Plan and Elevation of Country House

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Pen and grey wash floor plan of a garden pavilion with central rectangular room, semicircular apses and a feet scale bar.

Plan for Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Pen and watercolor frieze design of children running in a meadow under a sun, with birds and plants, by Anton Heinrich Peschk

Entwurf für einen Fries für ein Kinderzimmer

Anton Heinrich Peschka, 1927

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a garden pavilion with a pediment, caryatid figures, arched niches, and urns.

Elevation of Garden Pavilion

Robert Morris, early to mid-18th century

Architectural floor design drawing with geometric coffered panels, star medallions and red and ochre tile borders on cream pa

Entwurf für einen Fußboden

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1850

Pen drawing of a clump of drooping snowdrop flowers with narrow leaves growing from a patch of ground.

Sneeuwklokjes

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Hond

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Pen drawing of a large black rooster beside three hens on grassy ground, with Dutch caption text below.

Hoenders

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Pen drawing of a striped tabby cat stalking through grass with its tail raised, by Henri Verstijnen, 1892.

Kat

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Pen drawing of a black cat reaching up a ladder while a striped tabby sits watching on straw below.

Twee katten in het stro bij een ladder

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Ink drawing of a bittern with a stretched neck standing among tall reeds on a cream background.

Roerdomp in het riet

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Ink drawing of a speckled shorebird with a long bill standing among reeds and grass, labeled Tureluur.

Tureluur

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Ink drawing of a farmer in a cap crouching to milk a black and white cow, with another cow grazing behind.

Boer melkt een koe

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Ink drawing of a ruff bird standing among grasses and flowering stems, with handwritten text below.

Kemphaan

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Black ink drawing of nasturtium flowers and round leaves with radiating veins on a cream paper ground.

Oost-Indische kers

Henri Verstijnen, 1892

Ink drawing of a saddled horse with a small bird on its back, standing in grass on a flat landscape.

Grutter op een paard

Henri Verstijnen, 1892