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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pencil study of a seated woman in a headscarf and long skirt, with a smaller figure sketch and faint landscape above.

Studienblatt: Sitzende Frauen

Pencil sketch of children in a group pulling a wooden cart across open ground with hills in the distance.

Kinder, einen Wagen ziehend

Red chalk sketches of a crucified figure, a seated haloed man, and a group of figures, with handwritten Italian text below.

Untitled. Studies for a Salome dancing before Herod: Christ and the Magdalen(?): a Crucifixion: a Christ for a Noli m…

Bernardino Poccetti

Brown wash drawing of a hillside with trees and two small figures under a pale sky.

Landscape with Trees and Figures

Herman van Swanevelt, 1600-1665

Brown wash drawing of a stone mill with a water wheel beside a pond, framed by trees and small figures on paths.

Foxley Mill, near Malmesbury

Thomas Hearne, 1802

Oval grey wash drawing of the Immaculate Virgin standing on a serpent with a palm branch, cherubs and a winged figure below.

The Immaculate Virgin

Johann Georg Bergmüller, 18th-mid 18th century

Grey wash drawing of the Baptism of Christ with John the Baptist, a kneeling Christ, cherubs above and angels at left.

The Baptism of Christ

Joseph Esperlin, 1725-75

Pencil sketch of a standing young woman in a headscarf and loose robe, one hand on hip, over faint grid lines.

Standing girl

Pen and wash drawing of a robed saint rising on clouds, surrounded by putti and angels.

Saint Augustine on Clouds Surrounded by Angels

Johann Jacob Eybelwieser, 1667-1744

Pencil portrait of a woman in a frilled bonnet and white collar, with a handwritten inscription below, by Wilhelm Hensel, 183

Auguste Solly

Wilhelm Hensel, 1838

Pen and red chalk drawing of a seated bearded man gesturing, with sketched figures and rays of light at right.

Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape

Hans Stutte, 1600-1625

Pencil sketch of a peasant girl seated on a well rim with a jug and leafy branches overhead.

Peasant girl at a well

Ink and wash design drawing of an ornate multi-armed candelabra with figural supports on a tan sheet.

Ontwerp voor een kandelaber

Henri Cameré, 1864

Pen and watercolor drawing of two winged putti carrying a leafy garland across a frieze, with ruled guide lines.

Deel van een fries met twee putti die een bladguirlande dragen

Henri Cameré, 1864

Pencil design drawing of a candelabra held up by a standing female figure, with ornamental scrollwork at the base.

Ontwerp voor een kandelaber met vrouwenfiguur

Henri Cameré, 1864

Watercolor scientific illustration of a white spotted greyling fish in side view, with fin counts written above.

Prototroctes oxyrhynchus (White spotted greyling)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1889

Pencil sketch of a jardinière supported by kneeling figures, with a separate study of a shield ornament below, on tan paper.

Ontwerp voor jardinière met knielende figuren, met daaronder detail met schild

Henri Cameré, 1864

Pencil sketch of a torchère design with a herm figure supporting a tray on a scrolled base.

Ontwerp voor torchère met hermfiguren

Henri Cameré, 1864

Pencil sketch on tan paper of rococo scrolls, acanthus leaves and shell-shaped ornaments arranged across the sheet.

Ontwerp voor vat gedragen door twee figuren en vijf schelpvormige vaten

Henri Cameré, 1864

Portrait of Alfred Rethel, looking up; verso: Studies of two heads

Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke, 19th century

Pencil sketch of rococo-style scrolls and a shell motif on tan paper, mounted above a colour scale bar.

Ontwerp voor detail tafelstuk

Henri Cameré, 1864

Pencil sketches on tan paper of a jardinière with figures, two standing nudes, and two shell-shaped vessels.

Ontwerp voor een jardinière, twee losse figuren en twee schelpvormige vaten

Henri Cameré, 1864

Pencil sketch of a shell-shaped vessel with wavy forms beside a small figure carrying a container on tan paper.

Ontwerp voor een schelpvormig vat en een dragende figuur

Henri Cameré, 1864

Pencil sketch of a young peasant woman in a headscarf with one arm raised, with branches drawn at the right edge.

Bauernmädchen mit Korb auf dem Kopf

Pen and ink sketch of several figures, including a standing man and a kneeling woman, on pale paper.

Sketch for the Judgment of Solomon (?); verso: Dancing Mythological Figures

Christian Gottlieb Schick, late 18th-early 19th century

Pencil sketch of a seated young girl with lowered eyes and loose layered clothing, on pale grey paper.

Sitting farmgirl

Pen and brown ink sketch of a draped female figure beside a horse with curled mane, a winged figure and two putti above.

Diana and Hecate

Rosso Fiorentino, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a farmer couple on a road, the man in a top hat with a walking stick, over red chalk guidelines and grid.

Farmer couple on the road

Watercolor of the brick Gothic Chorin monastery church seen from the east, with a seated figure and a tree on a grassy slope.

Klosterkirche Chorin, Ansicht von Osten

Eduard Spranger, 1828

Graphite sketch of two women seen from behind, wearing headscarves, on a cream sketchbook page.

Sketch of two female figures. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Sketchbook pages with brown ink drawings of a fortified building with towers and a courtyard building framed by trees.

Kirchliche Gebäude (S. 60) und Haus in einem italienischen Park (S. 61)

Johann Erdmann Hummel, 1792

Pencil sketch of various figures, including Sigmund Kauders

Gertrud Kauders, 1903