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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Watercolour of a decorated barge with canopy and passengers on a river before a city with domes and minarets.

Benares

Nicholas Chevalier, 1870

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man's head and shoulders, turned upward, with white highlights and a draped collar.

Divine of Reformation Time

Pieter van Lint, n.d.

Red chalk sketch of a kneeling robed man with raised hands, a bending figure, and studies of hands and drapery.

Studies of Hands and Bending Figures [verso]

Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1620 - 1630

Ink and wash drawing of a bearded man raising a spiked wheel above a kneeling woman and a fallen figure.

Martyrdom of Saint Catherine

Attributed to Godfried Maes, n.d.

Ink sketch of a couple with a parasol and dog beside two top-hatted men pointing with walking sticks.

Satirical drawing

William Thackeray

Pencil sketch of a horse and wagon crossing a wooden bridge toward a windmill and farm buildings in a flat Dutch landscape.

Dutch Landscape: Horse and Wagon Crossing Bridge Towards Windmill

Possibly Anton Mauve, n.d.

Drawing of a seated woman in draped robes resting her hand on a celestial globe, in gray wash and chalk.

Urania

Hendrick Goltzius

Watercolour plate of numbered moths, nymphs and a caterpillar, each with a scale bar, on a cream mount.

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate X]

George Hudson, 1946

Brown ink and wash landscape of a river valley with a hilltop castle, cypress trees, rocky cliffs and a distant village.

Rhine Landscape

Possibly Willem van Nieuwlandt, II, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a mountain valley with snowy peaks, a river, a pack horse and two travelers, and a rocky cliff at right.

Lindis Pass

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pen and ink landscape of a wooded valley with a large conifer, a seated figure on a path, and receding hills under clouds.

Landscape with Wooded Hills, Seated Figure

Nicolaes Emmanuel Perij, 1756

Red chalk drawing of a muscular male torso with raised arm, seated on a stepped pedestal, sketched on pale paper.

Belvedere Torso

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of a violent lion hunt with horsemen, spears, shields, rearing horses and attacking lions.

Lion Hunt

Pieter Claesz Soutman and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615-1618

Studies of a Roman Sarcophagus

Peter Paul Rubens, 1602/03

Grey wash drawing of massive stone arches framing distant buildings and a ruined structure among shrubs.

View of the Baths of Caracalla (?) in Rome

Daniël Dupré, late 18th-early 19th century

Pencil sketch of Mount Torlesse with hatched rocky slopes, two farm buildings and a fence in the foreground.

Mt Torlesse

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Monochrome drawing of a storm over a waterfall, with a windblown tree, rocky bank, small figures and a distant tower.

Stormy Landscape

Hendrik Meijer, 1776

Pencil sketch of layered hills and mountain peaks on a tan sketchbook page.

Sketch of hills in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pen and ink drawing on blue paper of a bearded reclining male figure in drapery within an oval frame.

Saint Augustus

Georg Anton Urlaub, 1713-59

Bearded Man

Christoph Joseph Werner, 1690

Pencil and wash sketch of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a rifle, with handwritten journal text below.

Sketch of Mr Watson, settler at the Manawatu. From: journal made on a visit to the disturbed District of Wanganui

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Pencil drawing of carts and oxen on a road beside walls and buildings, with a domed church on a hill, Madrid outskirts.

View of the Outskirts of Madrid

Fritz Bamberger, 1857

Pencil and blue wash panoramic sketch of a river channel with a timber beacon, distant town and mountains, by Nicholas Cheval

Hokitika Channel

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Three graphite and white chalk studies of a man in a tall hat and uniform on blue paper.

Three studies on a man on a saddle

Wilhelm von Kobell, late 18th-early 19th century

Red chalk drawing of a young woman riding a donkey beneath a rocky natural arch, with a dog and cliffs around her.

Young Woman with Donkeys Riding under a Natural Bridge

Watercolor of a stone tower, village houses, a covered wagon on a road, and a castle ruin on a hill.

View of Weinheim on the River Neckar

Carl Philipp Fohr, 1800-1818

Grey wash drawing of St. Nicholas church in Frankfurt with a tall tower, steep roof, and half-timbered house in the foregroun

St. Nicholas, Frankfurt

Sepia watercolor of large dinosaurs by a pool beneath cliffs and palm trees, with a setting sun on the horizon.

The country of the Iguanodon

John Martin, 1837

Grey monochrome drawing of a dusky landscape with streaked clouds, dark trees at left and a distant tree line.

Coastal Landscape

Anton Melbye, mid-19th century

Panoramic pencil and wash drawing of a river valley beneath snow-capped mountains, with forest and small figures.

River Hokitika and the Southern Alps

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil drawing of Kasteel Hernen with a central tower, pointed turrets, and an arched bridge at the right.

Het kasteel Hernen

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Pen drawing of Kasteel te Hedel with conical towers, pitched roofs, arched doorways, a staircase and a wooden footbridge.

Kasteel te Hedel

Cornelis Pronk, 1701