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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Graphite and white chalk drawing of a river valley with sailboats, rocky cliffs and wooded hills under a pale sky.

North from Storm King

John William Casilear, 1850s

Waist-Length Portrait of a Man Wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, in Profile Facing Left

Guercino, 1620s

Hand-colored 1848 caricature: two men below, a crowd with flags above, German text beneath.

Karikatur auf die Revolution 1848 (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Hand-coloured 1848 caricature in two scenes: a stooping man reads a newspaper, and a top-hatted man beats a fallen figure wit

Karikatur auf die sozialen Auswirkungen der Revolution (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Pencil and wash caricature: students with a banner above, and a money-bag figure on Haus Rothschild weighing notes at the Bör

Karikatur auf die Studenten und auf das Haus Rothschild (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Manuscript leaf with two columns of black and red Latin text and blue and red decorated initials with penwork.

Illuminated Manuscript Leaf

Unknown artist, c. 1450

Pen and wash drawing of an angel addressing a kneeling woman beside a column, with cherubs in clouds above.

Verkondiging aan Maria

Jacob de Wit, 1705

Satirical drawing: a professor gestures at a lectern, and below, men in helmets run carrying money sacks marked Reisegeld.

Karikatur auf die Universitätsprofessoren und die Diäten der Reichstagsabgeordneten (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu…

Alexander, 1848

Brown wash drawing of a busy 18th-century street with gabled houses, a horse and cart, and workers beside barrels.

Het Rokin, gezien naar de Munt

Jacob Cats, 1785

Brown wash drawing of figures stepping from a carriage beside a townhouse doorway, with a dog in the foreground.

De thuiskomst van twee leden van de vriendenkring

Jacob Cats, 1751

Brown wash drawing of a robed central figure among a crowd of men beneath a large stone archway opening onto sky.

Christus te midden van Farizeeërs voor een poort

Jacob de Wit, 1705

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated woman, a standing man holding threads, and two putti in an allegorical scene.

Allegorie op de zijdehandel

Jacob de Wit, 1738

Brown wash drawing of travellers leaving an inn beside a carriage and horse, with a lantern and a Bible sign overhead.

Het verlaten van de herberg

Jacob Cats, 1751

Satirical 1848 drawing with exaggerated male caricature heads above and two ghostly figures holding candles below.

Karikatur auf die Wiener Hausherren und auf die Flucht Metternichs und Sedlnitzkys (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu…

Alexander, 1848

Brown wash drawing of a horse and carriage by a tree, with figures on house steps and a balcony, a canal and church tower beh

De vrienden vertrekken van het huis van Haazel

Jacob Cats, 1751

Brown ink drawing of a tavern-like room where a man has fallen over a chair while others sit at a table.

Voorval tijdens een maaltijd van de vriendenkring

Jacob Cats, 1751

Red chalk sketch of a female figure with flowing hair on cream paper, with handwritten Dutch inscription below.

Schets voor Allegorie op de zijdehandel

Jacob de Wit, 1738

Watercolor of armed men in period dress feasting at a long table in a hall with a blue banner and drum.

De schuttersmaaltijd in de Voetboogdoelen te Amsterdam ter viering van het sluiten van de vrede van Munster, 18 juni…

Jacob Cats, 1779

Colored caricature of a censor marking papers at a desk, with two men arguing below over a red-marked document.

Karikatur auf die Zensur (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Head of a Woman and Head of a Bearded Man

Édouard Manet, 1880

Hand-coloured caricature of a woman in a black cape with a RES PUBLICA badge, white bonnet and dress, 1848.

Karikatur auf eine Republikanerin (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Colored caricature drawing with police, soldiers and a fallen man above, and seated men and whispering informers below.

Karikatur auf Polizei und Spitzelwesen (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Satirical colored drawing of soldiers firing on a figure above, and officials hauling papers labeled Urtheil below, 1848.

Karikatur auf Polizeiübergriffe und Justiz (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Watercolor of a hillside villa with a tower and terrace near Tivoli, under a large white cloud and blue sky.

Near Tivoli

Thomas Jones, 1777

Colored caricature drawing: blue-uniformed police march above a row of exaggerated, startled caricature heads, dated 1848.

Karikatur auf Polizisten und Zensoren (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Caricature of a sleeping man in a nightcap woken by a banner-waving figure beside a cannon, with the word Deutschland Erwache

Karikatur: "Erwachen des deutschen Michels" (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Watercolour caricature of a crowd of men around a central figure on an ornate throne, with musicians, animals and allegorical

Karikatur: Ausflug der Theatergesellschaft des Haustheaters in der Alleegasse auf den Kahlenberg

fraglich: Andreas Mögele, 1874

Caricature of a thin cleric in black facing a stout National Guardsman in blue uniform with medals, drawn in 1848.

Karikatur: Magerer Kleriker und dicker Nationalgardist (aus einer Serie des Künstlers zu 1848)

Alexander, 1848

Oil portrait of a bearded man with graying hair in a dark suit and bow tie, set against a muted brown background.

Jens Ferdinand Willumsen. Study for Five Portraits

Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1901

Two pen and ink sketches of a weeping woman in draped robes, one seated with head bowed and hands to her face.

Two Sketches of a Weeping Woman

Benjamin West, n.d.

Karl Friedrich Zimmermann (1796-1820), Maler

Johann Adam Klein, 1818

Karl Graf Lanckoronski-Brzezie (1848-1933)

Josef Engelhart, 1926