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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pale watercolor sketch of a sandy beach with a small figure, a triangular sail, and a cloud-filled blue sky.

Sketch - Frederick Mayor

Frederick Mayor

Pencil drawing of a ruined village with a church spire, vineyards in the foreground and wooded hills behind.

Ansicht eines ruinösen Dorfes, umgeben von Weinbergen

Heinrich Funk, 1839

Watercolor of a curly dock plant with caterpillars, a chrysalis, and two moths around its stem and leaves.

Curly Dock with Metamorphoses of the Small Engrailed and the Blood-Vein

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1683

Pen and ink drawing of a group of slender trees with bare branches and leafy clumps above low undergrowth.

Trees

Watercolor landscape of snowy mountain peaks above a dark valley and lake, with an inscription reading The Rainy Day.

Illustration for Longfellow's "The Rainy Day"

Myles Birket Foster, 1850s

Watercolor of an oak branch with acorns, a brown owlet moth, caterpillars and a pupa on a pale background.

Oak branch with owlet moth, caterpillars and pupa

Maria Sibylla Merian, 1679

Poster design showing a soldier beside a flaming monument under a large fist, with Dutch text urging soldiers to protect art.

Ontwerp affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger

Leo Gestel, 1939

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing nude figure with sea figures and waves around a shell-shaped saltcellar design.

A Design for a Saltcellar

Unknown artist

Pencil sketch of a soldier beside a flaming pedestal marked KUNST, with poster lettering above and workers below.

Schets voor 'Soldaten! Spaart en beveiligt kunst

Leo Gestel, 1939

Pencil and ink poster sketch of a soldier raising his hand, with diagonal friezes and lettering reading Soldaten! Spaart en b

Ontwerpschets affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger, schets van soldaat met op de achtergrond twee di…

Leo Gestel, 1939

Pen sketch of a soldier in a long coat seen from behind, one arm raised and a rifle held in the other hand.

Ontwerpschets affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger, schets van soldaat op de rug gezien

Leo Gestel, 1939

Colored design sketch of a poster with a soldier raising a staff before a white banner, lettered SOLDATEN and KUNST.

Ontwerpschets affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger, schets van soldaat frontaal gezien met op de ach…

Leo Gestel, 1939

Gestel sketch for a 1939 Dutch propaganda poster showing a standing soldier and the yellow banner 'Soldaten! Waakt ook voor K

Ontwerpschets affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger, schets van soldaat frontaal gezien staand op een…

Leo Gestel, 1939

Pencil sketch of a soldier with a rifle on his shoulder and one hand raised in a stop gesture.

Ontwerpschets affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger, schets van soldaat, die met de linkerhand een st…

Leo Gestel, 1939

Pencil and wash drawing of a nude youth leading two young women by a chain across a landscape, within an oval frame.

Jugendlicher Amor, der zwei junge Frauen an einer Kette führt

Conrad Martin Metz

Pencil sketch of two soldiers in helmets, one raising an arm and one carrying a rifle, on cream paper.

Ontwerpschets affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger, schets met twee soldaten

Leo Gestel, 1939

Pencil sketch of three standing soldiers in uniform, two seen from behind and one partly turned, on cream paper.

Ontwerpschets affiche voor propaganda kunstbescherming in het leger, drie schetsen van soldaat

Leo Gestel, 1939

Watercolor of a woman in a red bonnet and a bearded man swimming in the sea near a cliffed shoreline.

Male and Female Bathers

Watercolor of a calico mother cat with three kittens, one playing with a mouse, on a cream background.

Weiße Katze, schwarz und rotbraun gefleckt, mit ihren drei Jungen, die mit einer Maus spielen

Pen drawing of a kitchen where a woman pours water on a fire while a seated knight sits by the hearth amid smoke.

In der Küche einer Mühle sitzt ein Ritter am Herde, die Müllerin sucht mit einem Eimer Wasser das Feuer zu löschen

Ferdinand Fellner

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate architectural frame with a putto, scrolls, and an urn with foliage.

An Elaborately Sculpted Frame

Unknown artist

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man pointing and a woman with a flower basket, both kneeling in draped robes.

Two Kneeling Figures with Offerings

Unknown artist

Pencil drawing of a mother with curled hair embracing a young child, her cheek resting against the child's head.

Eine Mutter, ihr Kind umarmend

Marie Ellenrieder

Pen and wash drawing of a muscular man in a cap holding tongs across his torso, grimacing, on aged paper.

A Tormentor With Tongs

Follower of Taddeo Zuccaro

Watercolor drawing of a brown flounder fish with fins spread, labeled with fin counts and the name Tasmanian flounder.

Rhombosolea tapirina : greenback flounder

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Pencil sketch of a forest with tall trunks, a stone well at lower left, and patches of orange wash in the foliage.

Forest section

Pen and ink study of a costumed man with a feathered hat and staff, with smaller sketches at right.

Studies for a Scene from Dante's "Inferno"

Pencil study with red grid lines showing an elderly woman and several children, with a standing woman and city rooftops behin

Die Märchenerzählerin (?)

Watercolor drawing of crumbling brick ruins with arched windows on a grassy hillside under a partly cloudy sky.

The Great Villa of the Quintilii on the Appian Way

Carlo Labruzzi, 1789

Pencil sketch of a woman holding a baby in a doorway, drawn on a numbered sketchbook page.

Sketch of a woman in a doorway holding a baby. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Pencil sketch of a seated girl with construction grid lines and diagonals across a yellowed sheet of paper.

Sitting girl

Pen and brown ink sketch of the Madonna and Child with saints in several overlapping groups on a pale sheet.

The Madonna and Child with Saints

Unknown artist, 17th century