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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pen drawing of Adam plowing a field alongside a skeleton representing Death, with trees and a distant mountain landscape.

Adam en de Dood beploegen de aarde

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1540

Pen drawing of a standing woman holding a banner pole with chains, a dog at her feet, and a coat of arms above.

Nederigheid

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1551

Pen drawing of a bearded God with a crown reaching toward a sleeping nude man beneath radiating light and a fruit tree.

Schepping van Eva

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1541

Pen and wash drawing of a draped allegorical woman with a staff, pointing, beside a coat of arms and rocks.

Gematigdheid

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1551

Pencil sketch on tan paper of interior architectural details with handwritten Dutch notes, by Johan George Lodewijk Rieke, 18

Compositie met details van Schouwburg Frascati aan de Plantage Middenlaan te Amsterdam

Johan George Lodewijk Rieke, 1879

Pen and grey wash drawing of a draped woman holding a staff beside a column, statues, a bird-topped shield and a monogram tab

Kuisheid

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1551

Pen and wash drawing of a draped standing woman holding a flag staff, with an eagle and coat of arms above.

Geduld

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1551

Pencil sketch of a seated woman and standing boy beside a well with a pulley, with a village and church in the background.

Row at the well

Small oil sketch of a sailing ship with green sails, red mast and dark hull against a pale sky and water.

Sketch of a sailing ship no. 2

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketch on tinted paper of a young woman surrounded by children, a sheep, and a cart, with a squared grid.

Junge Frau, umringt von Kindern

Pencil sketch of a group of figures walking, including a hatted man pointing, women in headscarves, and a child, over faint g

Return from the field

Charcoal and pencil sketch of hills on a sketchbook page, dark masses on the sides with pale ridges below.

Sketch of hills from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pencil sketch of an elderly man in a buttoned coat leaning on a walking stick, with a weathered face and tousled hair.

Old farmer

Pencil and watercolor botanical drawing of a white-flowered Ourisia plant with rosette leaves and roots on beige paper.

Ourisia glandulosa Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Pencil sketch of villagers in procession under large trees, a banner-bearer at front, grid lines across the sheet.

Feierliche Heimkehr vom Feld

Watercolour of a river with a tall tree, a seated figure, a moored sailing boat, and castle towers under an evening sky.

Capriccio view on the Thames near Windsor

Pencil sketch of a soldier with his arm in a sling talking to a gravedigger with a shovel among trees and shrubs.

Ein Soldat mit dem Arm in einer Schlinge auf dem Friedhof im Gespräch mit einem Totengräber

Watercolor of a river at sunset with two figures on a grassy bank, trees on the right, and pink sky above.

Waikato River with figures

Frank Wright, 1885

Pencil sketch of a crouching soldier in a kilt with a rifle lying on the ground beside him.

Two studies of a soldier in a kilt: 1. On the battlefield with gun at side. 2. Seated on stool

Pencil sketch of a group seated beneath a tree on a rocky ledge, with a distant landscape and figure at left.

Group unterneath a tree

Pencil and ink drawing of a schoolteacher with raised arm leading singing children outdoors among trees.

Singende Kinder mit Schullehrer im Freien

Black ink vignette design with lions, pillars and figures framing the lettering HET TOONEEL along a band.

Ontwerp voor vignet in het gedenkboek voor koningin Wilhelmina uit 1923: Het Tooneel

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Brown and cream Art Nouveau border design with stylized female figures and swirling ornament above bold Dutch lettering.

Ontwerp voor vignet in het gedenkboek voor koningin Wilhelmina uit 1923: Handel, Nijverheid, Bank- Geldwezen

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Black and cream decorative vignette with stylized lions, building facades and the words De Nederlandsche Bouwkunst.

Ontwerp voor vignet in het gedenkboek voor koningin Wilhelmina uit 1923: De Nederlandsche Bouwkunst

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Black and cream design of four tigers in a decorative border with the word INDIE lettered beneath them.

Ontwerp voor vignet in het gedenkboek voor koningin Wilhelmina uit 1923: Indie

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Black and cream decorative vignette with stylized animals, curling forms and the word FEESTEN in bold capitals.

Ontwerp voor vignet in het gedenkboek voor koningin Wilhelmina uit 1923: Feesten

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Black and cream decorative vignette with stylized animals in a row and the words HET VERKEER below.

Ontwerp voor vignet in het gedenkboek voor koningin Wilhelmina uit 1923: Het Verkeer

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Black ink frieze on tan paper with kneeling robed figures alternating with cross, anchor and heart symbols.

Ontwerp voor vignet in het gedenkboek voor koningin Wilhelmina uit 1923 met voorstelling van de deugden Geloof, Hoop…

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Ink and pencil design drawing with a black-and-white bird frieze above lettering and a pencil sketch of ornamental capitals b

Ontwerp voor decoratie van het gedenkboek voor koningin Wihelmina uit 1923

Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874

Pencil study sheet with several legs and laced boots sketched in light outline on cream paper.

Studieblad met drie benen en geschoeide voeten

Reijer Stolk, 1906

Pencil drawing of a reclining nude figure seen from behind, head turned left, with cross-hatched shading.

Reclining Female Nude

Reijer Stolk, 1906

Pencil drawing of dense broad-leaved plants along a waterside, with hatched shading across the foliage.

Planten aan de waterkant

Reijer Stolk, 1914