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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pen drawing of a castle with an octagonal tower, a wall, and an arched bridge, framed by trees.

Kasteel Wulven bij Houten

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Pencil drawing of the Wolfswaard castle with a tall central tower, dormer windows, ornate gables and surrounding trees.

Het kasteel Wolfswaard

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Pencil sketch of a group of figures beside a boat, with a reclining figure below, on a sketchbook page numbered 27.

Group of figures with a boat. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Watercolor of two yellowhammers on branches above a grass nest with four eggs beside a tree stump.

Twee geelgorzen, bij een nest met vier eieren

Christiaan Sepp, 1730

Pen drawing of a row of gabled houses behind a wooden fence, with tall trees on the right and a handwritten place name at top

Het huis Lagenpoel te Rumpt

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Pencil drawing of a castle facade with tall windows, tiled roofs, a round corner tower and trees on the right.

Het kasteel Limburg

Cornelis Pronk, 1729

Watercolour drawing of a female green crossbill in flight and a male rose-red crossbill perched on a branch.

Twee Kruisbekken

Christiaan Sepp, 1730

Standing Man

Johann Christian Reinhart, late 18th-19th century

Pen drawing of a Gothic church with a tall tower and spire, arched side aisle, trees and houses along a street.

Gasthuiskerk te Doesburg

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Watercolor drawing of a branch of purple lilacs with green leaves and a bare woody stem on cream paper.

Branch of Purple Lilacs

Maria Geertruida Barbiers-Snabilié, 1786

Hand painted entomology plate showing numbered beetles and larvae with scale bars, labeled Plate XIII.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Watercolor of lime kilns beside a canal with fishermen, farm buildings, tall trees and a distant church steeple.

Kalkovens bij Hillegom

Gerard van Rossum, 1765

Pen drawing of the Doesburg town hall with a tall tower, gabled facades, and pedestrians in a street.

Het stadhuis van Doesburg

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Pen drawing of a castle with round towers and steep roofs, surrounded by trees and water, with the caption Ammerzoden.

Kasteel Ammerzoden

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Watercolor botanical study of pink dianthus, blue sweet peas and two blue scabious flowers on a dark grey background.

Study of Three Flowers

Johann Christian August Birnbaum, 1781

Watercolor of a ruined Gothic abbey with pointed arches, overgrown trees, and a seated figure with a staff.

Croyland Abbey

Pen and wash drawing of a saint on a grill over fire, with soldiers, a seated ruler, and angels above.

The Maryrdom of Saint Lawrence

Rombout Eynhoudts, early 17th-mid 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a ruined stone tower with an arch, two small figures at lower right, hills and river behind.

Landscape with a Ruined Tower and Two Figures

Martin von Molitor, 1794

Red chalk portrait drawing of a heavyset man with wavy hair, white collar and dark coat, turned three-quarters to the viewer.

Portrait of a Clergyman or a Jurist (?)

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-early 18th century

Brown sketchbook cover with a red-bordered paper label in the upper center, faintly marked with pencil and a price.

Sketchbook, containing street scenes, cafe scenes, sill lifes, and sketches of the artist's family

Gertrud Kauders, 1925

Grey wash drawing of rocky hills with shrubs, a shepherd with a staff, a tree and grazing cattle under a cloudy sky.

Landscape in Saxony

Carl August Richter, late 18th-19th century

Pencil drawing of a valley entrance with tall trees, a hillside, distant ridges, and small figures in the foreground.

Entrance to the upper valley of the Hutt - Taines section

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1847

Pencil studies on cream paper of seated male figures, including a nude man with a raised arm and clothed bearded men.

Studies of a Seated Bearded Man

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, mid-19th century

Sailor in blue uniform peering at a framed portrait in a gallery, with a grinning caricature face and a rope barrier.

In Greenwich Hospital

Pen and watercolor drawing of a robed figure raising a young woman on a bed while an elderly man and a woman look on.

The Raising of the Daughter of Jairus

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1873

Watercolour of a wooden lock gate on a canal beside a brick outbuilding, with dense trees and a grassy field.

Landscape with lock gate

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a young woman in a headscarf and shawl leaning on a jar beside a basin, on blue paper.

Study of a Roman Woman

Konstantin Johannes Franz Cretius, 1841

Charcoal sketch of three nude bathers at the water's edge with loose, gestural lines and curved shoreline.

Three Bathers in the Sea

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, c. 1914

Brown wash drawing of figures on a path under tall trees, with a town and bay visible in the distance.

Figures in a Grove above the Bay of Naples

Jakob Wilhelm Hüber, 1820

Study drawing of the Trinity and saints around the Sacred Hearts, with kneeling clerics, a ship at sea, and a rococo frame.

A Study for a Frontispiece: The Trinity and Saints surrounding the Sacred Hearts of Christ and the Virgin Mary, a Coa…

Vitus Felix Rigl, 1743-79

Woman in brown dress kissing a drowsy child in blue outfit who rubs an eye, in soft pastel tones.

Mother's Goodnight Kiss

Mary Cassatt, 1888

Pencil landscape sketch of rolling hills, a ruined stone tomb on the right, and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

View of the Appian Way

August Leopold Venus, 1866