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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Open sketchbook: grey wash drawing of a town with a spired church on a hillside beside trees, facing a faint blank page.

Stadtansichtsskizze (S. 64) und Ortschaft in einem Tal (S. 65)

Johann Erdmann Hummel, 1792

Grey wash sketch of a medieval castle with battlements and towers beside trees, drawn in an open sketchbook spread.

Mittelalterliche Gebäude

Johann Erdmann Hummel, 1792

Watercolour drawing of a man with a whip and a boy holding a rope tied to a pig in a rural landscape.

Man and boy with a pig

Thomas Rowlandson

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a headscarf glancing over her shoulder, with faint landscape lines behind her.

Farm girl

Watercolour of a Gothic church tower and timber-framed house on a town street, with small figures and a pale sky.

St. Peter's Church, Warwick

Robert Burford, 1818

Pen drawing of a woman holding a bundled child, a seated woman with a toddler, and a head study in the upper right.

Family scene

Pencil sketch of a group of peasant men, women and children outdoors, one man in a wide hat pointing to the right.

Gruppe von Bauern im Freien

The military lover

Thomas Rowlandson

Pencil sketch of figures in an interior, two central people embracing near a doorway with seated onlookers, and a reclining f

Group in a room

Watercolour of a seated young woman in red and brown with geese and a bucket by a pond, farmhouse in background.

The right of way

William Lee-Hankey, 1902

Pencil sketch of a mountain ridge with hatched shading and streaming clouds, drawn on a numbered sketchbook page.

Sketch of Mt Rolleston. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Studienblatt: Drei Jungenköpfe

Pencil sketch of a hillside with a winding road and a small standing figure, numbered 53 in a sketchbook.

Figure on mountain road in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor drawing of a banded snake, a green lizard, and a pipefish arranged vertically on a pale background.

South American smallhead worm lizard, iguana or East Indian tree lizard and pipefish

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1701

Pencil sketch of a kneeling man embracing a small child who rests head on his shoulder, on grey paper.

Man with child

Watercolor drawing of a ruined classical temple with Corinthian columns, a stone lion, statues, and figures among fragments.

Capriccio with an Ancient Temple

Hubert Robert, ca. 1756

Charcoal sketch on a sketchbook page showing a building at left and a rugged mountain landscape with a path at right.

Two scenes from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor botanical study of oak branches with catkins and acorns, a bark and wood block, and loose acorns on paper.

Studies of the blossoms, fruits and trunk of an English oak (Quercus robur)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Pencil study sheet showing a seated man with a walking stick above and three men in caps seated on a bench below.

Studienblatt: Sitzende Männer

Botanical watercolor of elm twigs with leaves and blossoms, a bark-covered trunk block, a cut wood block, and winged fruits.

Studies of the leaves, blossoms, fruits and trunk of an English elm (Ulmus procera)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Watercolor botanical study of whitebeam leaves, white blossoms, red berries, and two cut trunk sections with bark.

Studies of the leaves, blossoms, fruits and trunk of a whitebeam (Sorbus subgenus Aria)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Watercolor botanical study of a wild apple branch with blossoms, fruit, bark, cut wood, and a halved apple with seeds.

Studies of the trunk, blossoms and fruit of a wild apple tree (Malus sylvestris)

Ludwig Pfleger, 1788

Geharnischter Ritter (König Artus)

Pen drawing of a tall botanical specimen with narrow serrated leaves and clustered flower heads, with handwritten labels belo

Senecio wairauensis Belcher. Formerly Erechtites prenanthoides

John Buchanan, 1865

Hand-coloured drawing of a lappet moth's metamorphosis: orange adult moth, grey cocoon, pupa, and two bristly caterpillars.

Metamorphosis of the Lappet

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1679

Botanical drawing of a plantain plant with a green caterpillar, a brown chrysalis on a leaf, and a brown moth.

Plantain with Metamorphosis of the Brigh-Line Brown-Eye

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1679

Botanical drawing of a willow branch with red and black beetles, striped larvae, egg clusters and chewed leaves.

Willow leaves with poplar leaf beetle, eggs and larvae

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1679

Watercolour of a snow-capped conical mountain above misty forest, with rocks and trees in the foreground.

Mt Egmont

John Hoyte, 1873

Watercolor of domed tombs with crescent finials among palm trees, a stone bridge over water, and figures on a dirt road.

Tombs of Great Arab Saints to be seen in the Neighborhood of Rosetta, Egypt

Luigi Mayer, ca. 1800

Red chalk drawing of a standing male nude holding a long staff, with one arm extended, on cream paper.

Staand mannelijk naaktmodel

Andrea Boscoli, 1592

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing nude male figure beside a cross, with radiating lines around the head.

Christus staand met het Kruis

Luca Cambiaso, 1537

Charcoal study of a bearded man's head tilted upward, with dark shading around the eyes and mouth on grey paper.

Buste van de stervende Alexander

Annibale Carracci, 1595