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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Sepia wash drawing of a ruined castle beyond a stone arched bridge over a river, with trees on the right.

Conway Castle, North Wales

Andrew Donaldson

Pencil sketch of a harbour with anchored sailing ships, rolling hills behind, and rooftops and trees in the foreground.

Untitled (two sketches: architectural details)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Charcoal sketch of a flat landscape with a windblown tree and small figures walking across the field.

Landscape with trees and travellers. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Pencil sketch of a turbaned shepherd with a long staff beside a sheep, with hills and grazing animals behind.

Sherpherd with sheep

Watercolor of a sailing ship's rigging and sails with choppy turquoise sea waves breaking alongside the hull.

In the Western Ocean

Arthur Briscoe, 1928

Pencil sketch of a hay wagon with oxen, a bearded draped figure, peasant women and a child on grey paper.

Heuwagen und bärtige Gewandfigur eines Heiligen

Watercolour of surf breaking along a sandy beach toward a distant headland, with grassy dunes and a cloudy sky.

Nine mile beach looking North from Totara

William Francis Herring, 1928

Paul Sandby drawing of a Gothic gateway at Windsor, with a sentry, pedestrians and a church tower beyond.

The Tower Gate at Windsor Castle 1767

Paul Sandby, 1767

Watercolour of a horse and cart on a wooded track beside boulders, with three figures and a hazy distant landscape.

A quarry near Plymouth

William Payne, 1791

Pencil sketch of a woman in a headscarf with children beside and atop a loaded hay cart in a rural landscape.

Frau mit heimkehrenden Kindern

True N. Z. Kingfish Seriola grandis Castleman

Frank Edward Clarke

Pencil sketch of musicians with a bass viol player, two children in front, and a dancing child at left on yellowed paper.

Musicians

Watercolor of a three-masted ship with smoke on choppy sea, snow-capped mountains rising behind it under a pale sky.

The Kaikoura Mountains, N.Z.

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Pencil sketch of a large tree beside a village street, with a half-timbered house and stone wall on the right.

Baum an einer Dorfstraße

Watercolor of a brown and white cow and several sheep resting on a grassy slope with distant hills.

Sheep and cow in landscape

Thomas Cooper, 1881

Junger Mann mit Federhut im Dreiviertelprofil

Pencil sketch of a lake beneath steep mountain peaks, with a small building on the shore in the foreground.

Lake Shepherd

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Frau im Halbprofil nach links

Oil sketch of sunbeams breaking through dark clouds over a plain with trees and a small building at left.

Sun Breaking through Clouds above the Roman Campagna

Johann Jakob Frey, 1844 or after

Watercolour of farm buildings on a rise overlooking open plains, a winding river and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Mr MacKellar's Station, the Waimea Plains, Southland

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Hand painted plate numbered 1 to 8 showing New Zealand neuroptera insects, winged adults and aquatic nymphs, in yellow and re

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate V]

George Hudson, 1904

Watercolour and pencil sketch of an old weathered wooden boat resting in shallow blue water with grass at its base.

Old boat

Petrus van der Velden

Pencil sketch of a peasant couple with children and a sheep in a landscape with trees and clouds.

Junges Bauernpaar mit Kindern

Pen and brown ink drawing of a haloed saint holding a cross, wheat, and Passion instruments beside open books.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux with the Instruments of the Passion

Pieter de Jode, c. 1625

Watercolor of a Berne street with a flower stall, pedestrians, a horse cart and a clock tower with red spire.

A street in Berne, Switzerland

Charles Nathaniel Worsley

Pen drawing of a seated female personification wearing a crown, hand to face, with a scale bar on the left edge.

Personifikation einer Stadt, die Stadtkrone tragend

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing woman in a veil holding a child beside an inscribed scroll, labeled Sibila Eritrea.

Eritrean Sibyl

Unknown artist

Pen and gray wash drawing of an excited crowd of men, women, children and cattle on open ground beside a rocky hill.

Excited group

Pencil sketch of a Chinese peasant with a shoulder pole and basket, standing on open ground beside rocks.

A Chinese Peasant

George Chinnery, 1839

Grey wash drawing of a three-masted ship firing a cannon at distant waterspouts on a calm, overcast sea.

Firing to break a waterspout

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman in drapery turning toward a standing man against a shaded background.

Two Figures in Classical Dress

Henri-Pierre Danloux

Watercolour of purple-shaded mountains with a lone tree on a sunlit slope, fading distant ranges beneath a pale sky.

From Maitai saddle, Dun Mountain looking South up Waimea

James Crowe Richmond