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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Watercolor of a striped zorilla climbing a rock ledge, rotated on a manuscript page with handwritten labels.

Gestreepte bunzing of zorilla (Ictonyx striatus)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Watercolor drawing of an Egyptian mongoose with a bushy tail beside a Nile riverbank with reeds, labeled in Latin and Dutch.

Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon)

Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596

Painting of a pale birch tree with bare branches and leafy crown against a dark background, with grass in the foreground.

Study of a Birch Tree

Johan Christian Dahl, 1826

Woman's Head

Brown wash drawing of a striped thylacine beside a platypus on rocky ground, with grasses and a flowering plant.

Illustration for "Bird Beast"

Charles Livingston Bull

Pencil drawing of a fort's stone walls and watchtower above a grassy moat, with small figures on a path.

Moat at Fort Marion, Florida

James Wells Champney, c. 1874

Pencil sketch of a stone fort courtyard with a large arch, stacked cannonballs, a cannon, and two standing figures.

Fort Marion, Florida

James Wells Champney, c. 1874

Pencil sketch of a steam locomotive front view on squared graph paper, with handwritten German caption below.

Lokomotive von vorne (Kinderzeichnung)

vermutlich: Egon Schiele, 1900

Charcoal sketch of a woman playing a flute beside two resting lions under a tree.

Idyll

Frederic Stuart Church, 1886

Watercolor street scene of laden donkeys, a resting dog, and a fountain statue seen through a stone archway.

Bernini Fountain, Rome [recto]

Felix Octavius Carr Darley, c. 1867

Josie

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1892

Graphite sketches of a panther and a young lion head, with handwritten labels, on aged paper.

Panther and Young Lion Studies

Arthur Bowen Davies

Pencil portrait of a young girl with shoulder-length hair and a hair bow, wearing a buttoned dress, drawn in 1868.

Louise Alt als Mädchen

Rudolf von Alt, 1868

Woman's Head

Charcoal sketch of dark hills above a river with rounded rocks in the foreground, on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of hills with river and rocks. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Brown wash sketch of a sleeping child lying on the ground, with pencil inscriptions below, beside a colour chart.

Louise Alt als schlafendes Kind

Rudolf von Alt, 1862

Painted study of a grey-green agave plant with arching spiky leaves on brown soil, against a pale background.

Study of an Agave

Johan Christian Dahl, 1820

Pencil caricature of a standing man with a large curled mustache, hands in pockets, on tan paper, 1859.

Self-Portrait

John Whetten Ehninger, 1859

Watercolor of a Tahitian village green with shade trees, thatched huts, palms, people gathered on grass, and blue mountains b

At Papeete, Tahiti

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Louise Alt im Profil nach rechts

Rudolf von Alt, 1869

Watercolour of pale blue mountains and golden grassland with dark trees under a soft sky.

Dividing Range, Riwaka and Takaka

James Crowe Richmond, 1870

Pencil drawing of trees and shrubs along a pond edge, with reflections in the water and a fallen branch in front.

Pond Edge

James McDougal Hart, 1858

Ink wash drawing of a stormy sea with waves against a rocky cliff, a sailing ship nearby and wreckage in the foreground.

Shipwreck in Storm

Brown ink and wash drawing of a steep mountain valley with a small standing figure on a rocky path at lower left.

Deep Valley in Mountainous Landscape

Sketchbook page with pencil riders on horses and donkeys above watercolor studies of seabirds in flight, with Dutch notes.

Vertelling over man en ezel. Zeevogels

Jan Brandes, 1778

Pencil and red chalk drawing of an apple with stem and leaves, cast shadow to the right, within a red ruled border.

Appel

Jean Bernard, 1775

Pencil drawing of a single apple with hatched shading and a highlighted stem cavity, cast shadow below, thin border.

Appel

Jean Bernard, 1812

Löwe

Hanna Gärtner, 1947

Brown wash drawing of a hilly landscape with trees on the left, rolling hills, and a swirling cloudy sky.

Hilly Landscape with Trees

William Hart, 1855

Graphite drawing of an artichoke bud on a stem, with shaded overlapping petal-like bracts on a pale sheet.

Artisjok

Jean Bernard, 1775

Sketchbook page with watercolor and pencil studies of seabirds in flight, annotated with Dutch notes on size and plumage.

Seabirds

Jan Brandes, 1778

Sketchbook page with watercolor studies of crickets, cockroaches, grasshoppers, a caterpillar and cocoon, labeled in handwrit

Insecten

Jan Brandes, 1783