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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Watercolor of a green grasshopper in side view with brown wings and long antennae, on a sketchbook page with handwritten note

Sprinkhaan

Jan Brandes, 1784

Watercolor study of a green artichoke with purple-tipped bracts on a long stem, on cream paper.

Artisjok

Jean Bernard, 1797

Pencil study on a notebook page of a gecko foot with magnified toe pad and claw details and Dutch annotations.

Poot van tjitjak of huisgekko

Jan Brandes, 1784

Watercolor drawing of a pink and white striped tulip on a curving green stem with a long leaf, on cream paper.

Pink Tulip

Jean Bernard, 1775

Watercolor study of a passion flower with pale green petals, blue filaments and yellow stamens on a green stem.

Passion Flower

Jean Bernard, 1825

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man with lace collar, framed by Latin inscription and coats of arms.

Trosje aalbessen

Jean Bernard, 1775

Watercolor drawing of two grasshoppers on an album page, one green and one brown, with handwritten Dutch labels.

Indonesische sprinkhanen

Jan Brandes, 1784

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in clerical dress, with coats of arms, putti and a printed inscription below.

Tros witte druiven

Jean Bernard, 1775

Ludwig Anzengruber (1839-1889), Schriftsteller

Franz Defregger, 1885

Pencil and chalk sketch of a reclining figure surrounded by standing and kneeling mourners on grey paper.

Egmont and Hoorn

Thomas Hovenden after Bernard Gaillot

Pencil title page drawing with a central vignette of figures, chains, a barred window, and winged figures in a border.

Title Page for Kensworth

Alfred E. Hubbard

Watercolor of ruined towers on a grassy headland above the sea, with figures on a path, a sailboat, and a distant steamship.

Coastal scene with ruins

Ludwig Anzengruber auf dem Totenbett

Josef Engelhart, 1889

Pencil sketch of a mustached man with a receding hairline, head and shoulders turned slightly, on tan paper.

Grover Cleveland [recto]

Eastman Johnson

Watercolor of a Gothic church tower and rose-window facade in Dieppe, with a street of townhouses and figures below.

Church of St. Jacques, Dieppe

Watercolor of a glacier valley with a braided river and hazy mountain peaks under a pale golden sky.

Mount Cook and the Tasman Glacier

Ludwig Deurer (1806-1847), Maler

Johann Adam Klein, 1825

Watercolour of a Gothic church tower and traceried windows above a churchyard with gravestones, under a cloudy sky.

St. Mary's, Taunton, Somerset

Frederick Calvert, 1819

Watercolour of a mistletoe branch with green oval leaves and red tubular flowers, annotated as a parasite from Mt Ruapehu.

Parasite from Mt Ruapehu

Fanny Richardson

Watercolor landscape of a sheep flock grazing on rolling hills, with a shepherd and sheepdog at right and windmills in the di

Landscape, Sussex

Henry Hine, 1858

Pencil sketch of a farmhouse with chimneys and dormers beside trees and a reflecting river, labeled Seine et Marne.

Seine et Marne

Charles Frederick William Mielatz

Ludwig Friedrich Kaiser (1779-1819), Kupferstecher

Johann Adam Klein, 1817

Charcoal sketch of a muscular male boxer seen from behind, arms raised with fists clenched, nude torso.

Staggering Body Blows

Francis Luis Mora

Ink ground plan of a theatre and hippodrome at Pessinus, showing semicircular seating and an elongated racecourse.

Grundriss des Theaters und Hippodroms in Pessinus

Josef Wilhelm Durm, 1880

Pencil portrait of a man in a double-breasted coat and ruffled cravat, with handwritten name and dates below.

William Agur Tomlinson, M.D.

Attributed to Reuben Moulthrop, second half of 18th century

Ink architectural drawing of the ancient theater at Aizani with a sectional view, perspective cutaway, and labeled ground pla

Grund- und Aufriss des Theaters in Aizani

Josef Wilhelm Durm, 1880

Watercolour of a ruined castle on a cliff above a riverside village, with boats and figures on the water.

On the Rhine

William Fox KCMG

Ink technical drawing of several ancient theatre cross-sections and plans with measurements and labels, by Josef Wilhelm Durm

Konstruktionszeichnungen zu Theateranlagen

Josef Wilhelm Durm, 1880

Pen drawing of stadium seating details, a drainage channel, and two hippodrome ground plans on cream paper.

Detailstudien zum Stadion in Athen

Josef Wilhelm Durm, 1881

Brown ink drawing of a crowded classical city scene with temples, columns, statues, a horse, and figures on steps.

The presentation of the Virgin

Giuseppe Cesari

Ink and wash architectural drawing with ground plans of the Propylaea in Athens, Sunion and Eleusis.

Grundriss der Propyläen in Athen

Josef Wilhelm Durm, 1880

Ink floor plan of the Gymnasium in Alexandria Troas with colonnaded courtyards, a central circle and dimension notes.

Grundriss des Gymnasios in Alexandria Troas

Josef Wilhelm Durm, 1880