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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pencil costume sketch of an armored knight with an eagle crest, labeled Bolingbroke, Tournament, with a small mounted rider s

Bolingbroke (Tournament scene), costume sketch for Henry Irving's Planned Production of King Richard II

Edwin Austin Abbey

Portret van een man, en profil naar links

Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1816

Pencil portrait of a woman in a frilled bonnet and tied neck ribbon, turned to the left.

Portret van een dame

Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1796

Pencil and chalk portrait drawing of a young man with curly hair and a high-collared white shirt, looking at the viewer.

Portret van een jonge man

Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1832

Drawing of an elderly man in a top hat and overcoat, leaning on a table with a pipe beside his hands.

Oude man met pijp

Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1796

Watercolor of a rocky headland above a bay with boats and small figures on the shore under a pale sky.

Rots van Gibraltar

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Watercolor of an old wooden barn with a thatched and red-tiled roof, shrubs at its base, under a pale grey sky.

Oude schuur

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Pencil and watercolor costume sketch of two dancers in striped yellow and red-black outfits with feathered details.

Dancers, costume sketch for Henry Irving's Planned Production of King Richard II

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor of a beached wooden boat on a sandy shore, with figures walking and sailboats resting on the sand by the sea.

Schuiten op het strand

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Pencil sketch of a ship's hull and rigging seen from a quay, with sailors at the rail and wooden posts in the foreground.

Schip Cuba Packet gezien vanaf de wal

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1857

Watercolor costume sketch of an armored knight in a red cross-patterned tabard with handwritten note reading Berkeley.

Berkeley, costume sketch for Henry Irving's Planned Production of Richard II

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil study of a tree trunk with a broken branch, shaded with diagonal hatching on pale paper, with grass strokes at left.

Studie van een boom

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Ink drawing of a monogram of interlaced looping letters J and B on a small cream sheet with a dot at lower right.

Ontwerp voor een monogram met de letters J en B

Antoon Derkinderen, 1869

Watercolor drawing of a ruined gothic church with pointed windows, weathered brick walls and overgrown shrubs in grey tones.

Ruïne van een kerk

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Watercolor and pen drawing of a Gothic church tower with multiple pointed spires and arched windows, labeled Delft.

Kerktoren te Delft

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1834

Pencil drawing of an interior where a seated man reads a book beside a curtained bed alcove, with a windmill seen through the

Interieur met man die voorleest aan een zieke in bed

Hendrik Adriaan Christiaan Dekker, 1846

Loose charcoal sketch of an older man's head turned three-quarters, with wide eyes and heavy brows on pale paper.

Study for Smith?: sketch for mural for the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1911 (completed b…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor abstraction of overlapping orange, blue, teal and gray triangles arranged like sails, signed and dated 1921.

Abstraction Based on Sails, VII

David Kakabadzé, 1921

Watercolor of a yellow-haired figure on a dark rock beside a swimming figure in blue underwater seaweed.

Underwater scene

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and ink drawing of two women in long gowns descending a stone staircase past urns and balustrades in a garden.

Ursula: "She's lim'd, I warrant you!; we have caught her, madam." Hero: "If it prove so, then loving goes by haps: So…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891

Watercolor sketch of eight figures in a street scene: a man with a pig, two boys, vendors, a couple, and a dog-drawn cart.

Acht figuren

Pierre Jean Fardon, 1850

Watercolor of a smiling fishmonger holding up a fish at a window ledge with fish, a barrel and kitchen utensils.

Visverkoper toont zijn vangst

L. de Jong, 1853

Watercolor sheet showing ten small figures in a row: a basket carrier, a blue-uniformed man, a hunter with dog, a rider, and

Tien figuren

Pierre Jean Fardon, 1850

Charcoal study on blue-grey paper of a hooded, draped standing figure with head bowed and hand at the chest.

Study for figure of 8 pm in "The Hours" ceiling at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1902

Watercolor of a handweaver's workshop with a seated weaver at a loom, a woman at a spinning wheel, and a standing figure in b

Werkplaats van een handwerker

Wybrand Hendricks, 1759

Pencil sketch of a gondolier in a hat standing in a gondola, poling with a long oar.

Sketch of a gandoleer

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pastel portrait of a woman in a white tiara and high lace collar, drawn on grey paper.

Coronation of Edward VII Portrait: Princess Beatrice of Battenberg

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1903

Pencil sketch of a smiling middle-aged man scratching his head, with two smaller facial studies above.

Study of a middle-aged man, scratching his head

Edwin Austin Abbey

Head and Figure Studies, and Study of a Chair (recto); Sketches for Book Illustrations (verso)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen and wash drawing of a seated man at a lamplit table with a standing woman in a long dress in an interior.

Man and woman in an interior - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pastel portrait of a mustached man in a red-collared uniform with white cord, on a gray ground.

Coronation of Edward VII Portrait: Prince Charles of Denmark

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1904

Ink sketch of a horse carrying a rider and a slung figure through hatched rain, with a cloaked figure at left and handwritten

"Oh, Ransome, Ransome, do no hide mine eyes" (preliminary sketch for 1937.1090) - Act IV, Scene I, All's Well That En…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891