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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Watercolor landscape of billowing clouds over trees and small figures walking a path in the foreground.

A Landscape with Figures Walking along a Path

Henri Harpignies

Brown wash drawing of three fishermen by a lake framed by trees, with a stone bridge and church spire in the distance.

View of Stourhead

Richard Hoare, 1780

Oil sketch of a wooden hand cart piled with cut grass and clover beside a dark wooden post on a path.

Karren mit geschnittenem Gras beladen

Oil study of a standing sheep with three sheep head studies in warm brown tones on a dark background.

Sheep

Pen and brown wash drawing of two men in wide-brimmed hats: one standing from behind, one seated leaning on a cane.

Two Studies of a Man

Remigio Cantagallina

Pen and brown ink drawing of soldiers and horsemen fighting, with fallen figures and a dying horse in the foreground.

Soldiers Fighting

Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo

Watercolor drawing of a small silvery fish with red-dotted sides, with handwritten fin counts and labels on cream paper.

Maurolicus muelleri

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Painted study of a standing man in a tricorn hat, pale coat, grey waistcoat and tall boots, with a dark wash behind him.

Bauer mit großem Hut, weißer Jacke, Stulpenstiefeln

Ink and wash drawing of a fortified palace with round towers and an ornate gate, flanked by trees, with a statue in front.

A Stage Set with a Statue and a Palace

Daniel Marot the Younger, 1730s (?)

Watercolor drawing of a Gothic church portal with a pointed arch, clustered columns and a vaulted interior beyond.

Church entrance

John Sell Cotman

Sepia drawing of two grenadier soldiers in shako hats on a path, with a distant battle scene behind them.

Two Grenadiers

Sepia drawing of hills and snow-capped mountains seen from a vegetated foreground with trees and tussock grass.

View of Kaikoura Mountains and Cook Strait from Otari Hill, Port Nicholson

William John Warburton Hamilton, 1849

Oil sketch of dense broadleaf trees on a rocky slope, with layered hills fading into a pale yellow sky.

Broadleaf forest

Red chalk drawing of a rocky landscape with a stone tower, waterfall, arched bridge and windswept trees.

A Rocky Landscape with a Stone Tower and a Waterfall

attributed to Adriaen Frans Boudewyns

Oil sketch of a large old tree with thick roots beside a stone wall and worn steps, by Jakob Becker.

Alter Baum an einem Mauerstück

Pen and brown ink study of robed figures and a bearded head among clouds, with a figure in the sky above.

Studies for a Biblical Scene with God the Father Appearing to a Bearded Male Figure

Unknown artist, mid-17th Century

Sketch of a dramatic interior scene with a fainting woman supported by figures and a crowd watching, on blue paper.

A Dramatic Scene with a Fainting Woman

Small ink drawing by Paul Klee with loose, scratchy abstract forms and cross-hatching across pale paper.

Leiche (Corpse)

Paul Klee, 1913

Loose sketch of a farmhouse courtyard with stone steps, wooden doors, and a woman in blue holding a broom.

Brunnen an einem Bauernhaus

Narrow oil sketch of flat fields under a grey sky with a pale horizon and loose brushwork in the foreground grasses.

Dawn on the fields

Pen and brown ink sketch of a falling figure, a spoked wheel, a rearing horse and a helmet, on pale paper.

The Fall of Phaeton

Raymond Lafage, c. 1680

Sunlit valley with golden fields, trees, and a hill town below layered blue mountains, painted in 1839 by Schirmer.

Landschaft bei Civitella mit Blick nach Norden auf Rocca Canterano

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, 1839

Watercolor of Venice's domed Santa Maria della Salute at sunset, with sailing boats and a gondola on pink-tinted lagoon water

Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, at Sunset

Edward Lear, 1865/1884

Painted study of a young girl with a flower bouquet and a sheep beside her, against dark green foliage.

Bauernmädchen mit Blumenstrauß, von rechts ein ein Schaf

Charcoal study of three sleeves and a man's torso in a buttoned vest, drawn on tan paper.

Costume Studies

Jean-François Millet, 1854/1855

Pen and wash drawing of robed clergy in procession before a church portico, with ships on the sea and onlookers at left.

Paulinus, Cardinal and Patriarch of Aquileia, Transfers His Seat to Grado

Pietro Antonio Novelli, c. 1796

Mann im Profil nach links

Ink drawing of a barefoot figure in a top hat with a giant eyeball for a head, standing above a hilly landscape.

Standing on the Base Ground... I Become a Transparent Eyeball (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pen drawing of corn, melons and a gourd with a human face, with a handwritten quote from Emerson's Nature below.

I Expand and Live in the Warm Day Like Corn and Melons (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Kopf eines jugendlichen Mannes

Pen drawing of a seated man watching walking houses, a snake and a pig, with a quote from Emerson's Nature above.

Build Your Own World. So Fast Will Disagreeable Things...Vanish (Illustration for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature")

Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1830-92

Pencil and brown wash sketch of figures in outdoor settings with trees, two compositional studies side by side.

Two Studies for a Portrait of the Warren Family

George Romney, c. 1768