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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Architectural drawing of the Villa Wagner entrance portal with blue tiles, a painted helmeted figure panel, plan and section

Zweite Villa Wagner, Eingangsportal, Grundriss, Aufriss, Schnitt

Otto Wagner, 1912

Architectural drawing of a pergola with plan, elevation and section views and dimension annotations on cream paper.

Zweite Villa Wagner, Pergola, Grundriss und Schnitt

Otto Wagner, 1912

Colored perspective drawing of a white villa with blue tiles and a site plan below, with people walking by a fence.

Zweite Villa Wagner, Perspektive

Otto Wagner, 1912

Ink architectural plan of the second Villa Wagner showing floor layout, garden grounds, tree-lined site and a section cut.

Zweite Villa Wagner, Situation, Grundriss, Schnitt

Otto Wagner, 1912

Medieval miniature of a judge in red robes on a dais, with a crowd of figures in blue, red and white around him.

Scène rond een uitspraak van een rechter

Illustratore, 1340

Medieval manuscript leaf with a miniature of a bearded man among a group of figures, above a decorated initial and text colum

Fragment van een bijbel, uit het boek Job: Job temidden van zijn kinderen

Jean de Montbaston, 1330

Architectural floor plans of a residence on tan paper, with German labels for bedrooms, dining room and terrace.

Zweite Villa Wagner, Vorprojekt, Grundrisse Hochparterre und erster Stock

Otto Wagner, 1905

Pencil perspective drawing of a three-storey villa with flat roof, stone base and front entrance staircase, by Otto Wagner.

Zweite Villa Wagner, Vorprojekt, Perspektive

Otto Wagner, 1905

Watercolor of a sunlit hilltop village with ruined walls above olive trees and a winding dirt road.

Sun-Drenched Hills near Menton

Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart, 1880

Watercolor of a crumbling Gothic portal with a Madonna relief, opening onto a garden above a canal, 1844.

The Portal of the Madonna della Misericordia from the Canal

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner, 1844

Pencil sketch of two curly-haired children sitting back to back within a rectangular frame on cream paper.

Zwillinge

Hanna Gärtner, 1947

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a loose dress with a crescent moon above her on cream paper.

Zyklus "Die Schwangere": "Abend" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Pencil sketch of a standing pregnant woman with hand on belly, against a faint sky with clouds and horizon.

Zyklus "Die Schwangere": "Nachmittag" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Pencil sketch of a pregnant woman in a loose dress beneath a starry night sky, with handwritten notes on the page.

Zyklus "Die Schwangere": "Nacht" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Watercolor of a pink rose branch with open blooms, a bud, and green leaves on a brown background.

Pink Roses

Fidelia Bridges, 1875

Watercolor of a single red plum with a brown stem casting a shadow on a soft grey-brown background.

Plum

John Henry Hill, 1903

Pen and wash drawing of two panoramic riverside town views with church towers, rooftops, boats, and a windmill.

Twee gezichten op Antwerpen (?)

Gillis Neyts, 1633

Pen and wash drawing of two covered travel wagons with spoked wheels and arched canvas tops, one in outline and one shaded.

Twee reiswagens

Gillis Neyts, 1633

Watercolor still life of pears, apples and grape clusters on the ground with large leaves behind and a ladybug at lower left.

Still Life of Fruit: Apples, Pears, and Grapes on Ground

John William Hill, 1874

Pencil and ochre wash sketch of two nude figures, one crouching and one kneeling, with dark grey wash on the hair.

Two Nudes

Odilon Roche, 1918/1947

Brown wash drawing of ghostly soldiers raising banners on a hill above ranks of troops under a pale moon.

The Shades of French Soldiers from the Past Exhort the Army to Victory on the Rhine

Gustave Doré, c. 1870

Muted watercolor of a night street with glowing windows and a lone figure in a dark coat walking across the foreground.

Street at Night, Meudon

Gwen John, 1910s

Sketch in brown wash and graphite of a seated cat with white chest and muzzle, turned to the right, on tan paper.

Cat with a White Front

Gwen John, 1910/1915

Loose watercolor of a seated woman in a dark high-collared cloak, face turned away, against a tan wash background.

Seated Girl in a High Collared Cloak

Gwen John, 1910s

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a room corner with a window, white curtain, folded cloth, and a paneled wall in ochre tones.

A Corner of the Artist's Room, Rue Terre Neuve, Meudon

Gwen John, 1915/1919

Pencil and charcoal sketch of sloping mountain terrain with hatched shading on a numbered sketchbook page.

Landscape sketch from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor of a flat meadow with pollarded willows and a distant skyline of spires and a dome under cloudy sky.

Meadows with a Distant View of Oxford

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830s

Two studies of a young boy: 1. Standing with staff in hands. 2. Leaning against wall, one leg crossed over the other

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketchbook page with a standing figure at left, a sailing boat and a rowing boat with two people on rippling water.

Sketches of figure and of boats in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Pencil sketch of a tree-lined gravel path, church tower and town houses, with handwritten material notes in the margins.

Untitled (Sketch identified as Deal, Kent)

Nicholas Chevalier

Pencil sketch of a river valley with trees and shrubs along the banks and a sloping hillside on the right.

Teremakau looking west

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of two men struggling, one bent low gripping the other, with a faint smaller figure at upper right.

Figures fighting

Petrus van der Velden