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Drawings & Sketches

79,685 works

Pen and wash drawing of Venus seated, a vine-crowned Bacchus reaching toward her, and a flying cherub above, 1576.

Bacchus, Ariadne und Venus

Hans Friedrich Schorer, 1576

Grey wash drawing of rocky cliffs, circular rock-cut basins in the foreground, a ruined wall and a robed figure with a staff.

The Altar of Baal

Harry Fenn, 1885

Brown wash drawing of Saint Anthony's temptation: grotesque demons and monsters fill a landscape with smoke and ruined arches

Die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius in einer Landschaft

Pencil sketch of three classically draped women among trees and rocks in an Arcadian landscape.

In Arcadia

Heinrich Dreber

Ink and wash drawing of a half-timbered clubhouse beside a bowling green, with a flagpole, poplars and figures on the lawn.

The Athletic Club at Bowling Green

Harry Fenn, ca. 1900

Pencil sketches of a memorial library: several elevations, a clock tower facade, and a labeled floor plan on aged paper.

Design Sketches for a Memorial Library (recto and verso) (possibly the Winn Memorial Library, Woburn, Massachusetts)

Henry Hobson Richardson, ca. 1876

Studie einer Frau, verbräunt, durchgestrichen

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Watercolor design for an arched stained glass window showing a grey urn with blue flowers and lavender ribbons.

Stained Glass Design with Flowering Vase

E. E. Q., late 19th century

Grey pencil drawing of Venus reclining beside Adonis under a tree, with a cupid and dog in the background.

Venus and Adonis

Pen and wash drawing of a three-masted ship on rough sea with a harbor town and spires in the distance.

Schiffe auf See, im Hintergrund eine Hafenstadt

Watercolor design of an ornate wrought iron hall lantern with scrolling leaves and a glass panel with a sunburst.

Wrought Iron Hall Lantern Design

J. B. B. Frost, 19th century

Pencil drawing of Chepstow Castle ruins above cliffs, with figures in a rowing boat and a sailboat on the river Wye.

Chepstow Castle, Wales from the river Wye

Lilburne Hicks, 1830-60

Pen and brown wash drawing of Saint Jerome with a crucifix and a lion in a rocky wooded landscape.

Saint Jerome

Watercolor of a half-timbered Tudor style building beside railway tracks, with a steam train, gate keeper, and rolling hills.

Tudor Style Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

John Connell Ogle, 1844-77

Watercolor of a half-timbered rural railway station with a tiled roof, veranda, passengers, tracks and a distant church spire

Victorian Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

John Connell Ogle, 1844-77

Pen and wash sheet with unfinished bearded heads in circular medallions, halo rays, figure sketches, and cloud study at top.

Unfertige Köpfe mit Heiligen in Kreisen komponiert

Watercolor of wine barrels being loaded from a plank onto a sailing barge on calm water, with a distant sailboat.

Wine Barrels Loaded onto a Sailing Barge at Vevey

Johann Jacob Ulrich, c. 1850

Brown wash drawing of a rocky gorge with a waterfall, two figures on a ledge, and a tower in the distance.

Felsige Landschaft mit Wasserfall

Herman Saftleven

Brown ink drawing of a stone underpass with a horse carriage and pedestrians on a dirt road, evergreens on the hill beyond.

Central Park, Transverse Road No. 2

E. P., 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of a tall Gothic spired monument with pinnacles and tracery against a dark ground.

Spired Gothic Monument

Joseph Michael Gandy, 1797 (?)

Pen and brown wash drawing of two standing nude figures in a cloudy landscape, with handwritten Italian notes below.

Unidentified depiction

Fortunato Duranti

Pencil portrait of a woman with short hair and a ruffled collar, looking toward the viewer against a sketched background.

The Artist's Sister, Marie von Kalckreuth

Leopold von Kalckreuth, 1897

Charcoal drawing of two children sleeping side by side on a bed, with dark foliage in the upper left corner.

The Artist's Children Wolf and Anna Asleep

Leopold von Kalckreuth, c. 1900

Young man, looking up

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded, nearly nude penitent kneeling beneath a tree with a rosary, beside a cross and a lion.

Heiliger Hieronymus in der Einöde

Alessandro Magnasco

Pencil and white-heightened sketch of a seated man at a table in a dim studio, lit by a window behind him.

Der Kupferstecher Eissenhardt in seinem Atelier

Angilbert Göbel, 1850

Watercolor of a studio corner with pink roses in a glass vase on books, a yellow patterned cloth, and a wooden easel.

A Corner of a Studio

Henri Harpignies

Watercolor drawing of a long wherry rowing boat with oars and a pink canopy, labeled A Thems whery at London.

A Thems whery at London

Johann Heinrich Müntz, 1760

Brown wash sketch of a draped female figure and child beside classical architecture, with handwritten Italian text below.

[Letter text]

Fortunato Duranti

Pen and ink drawing of a priest with a sistrum and a wreathed companion before hieroglyph-covered obelisk and palm tree.

Procession at Memphis

Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, 18th century

Pencil portrait of a bearded man with tousled hair in a double-breasted coat, inscribed Gisbert Flüggen.

Gisbert Flüggen

Wilhelm Joseph Heine, 1830s

Pen drawing of four horsemen in clouds, one with a bow, one with scales, one with a sword, and a figure restraining a horse.

Vidi, quod aperuisset agnus... (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)

copy after Luigi Sabatelli I, 1809/1810