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Drawings & Sketches

79,656 works

Sketches of Figures

Lord Leighton Frederic, 1840-60

Graphite sketchbook page with three studies of young children in varied poses, including a reaching child and a seated child.

Three Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of three seated children on a sketchbook page, one wearing a round cap, with a handwritten Bruxelles note.

A Group of Seated Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of a nude male figure leaning forward with outstretched arm, with two small standing figures to the right.

Male Figure Study

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of two seated children, one lifting a large jar and one holding out a bowl.

Two Children

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1849

Pencil sketch of a man with round spectacles and curly hair, head resting on a cushion, on a sketchbook page.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1850

Preliminary Studies for Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1855

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat and frock coat seated on a balloon-back chair, legs crossed, on a sketchbook page.

Man Seated on a Chair

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1855

Pencil sketch of a geometric chair-like form on an otherwise blank sketchbook page.

Geometrical Figure

Lord Leighton Frederic, ca. 1855

Watercolor interior of a basilica with rows of columns, coffered ceilings, and kneeling figures in the foreground.

Interior View of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Anton Hallmann, 1833

Pen and wash design drawing of an arched rococo entrance portal with scrollwork, flower garlands and columns.

Design for an Entrance Portal with a Single Door

Michael Furtner the Elder, ca. 1720

Pen and watercolor design for a pulpit with a canopy, carved balustrade, staircase and floor plan on aged paper.

Design for a Pulpit

Michael Furtner the Elder, 1690-1720

Watercolor drawing of a circular domed market hall with a tall column, carts and figures in a cobbled street.

La Halle aux Blés, Exterior View

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, ca. 1810

Watercolor interior of a vaulted grain hall with brick arches, columns, a dome at left, and workers stacking flour sacks.

La Halle aux Blés, Interior View

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, ca. 1810

Pen and wash drawing of a tiered fountain with figures and cascading water, with a circular floor plan below.

Project for a Fountain for La Place Louis XV

Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, ca. 1806

Portrait of Giovanni Ricasoli, aged 5

Luigi Sabatelli, 1808

Brown wash drawing of Roman figures in a colonnade, a youth embracing a dying man beside armor, soldiers watching.

Scene from Roman History, depicting a Youth receiving Armor from a Dying Man (Scipio Africanus and His Son?)

Mathieu-Ignace van Bree, late 18th-mid 19th century

Three-quarter-length Study of a Standing Boy with a Whip, in Profile to the Right

Cornelis Saftleven, 1617

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Nativity with the Virgin, infant Christ, shepherds, an ox and a donkey under an arched port

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink, 1599

Brown wash drawing of Adam and Eve in a forest, Eve holding a branch as a serpent coils around the tree above.

The Temptation of Eve

Pieter van Lint, 1639

Red chalk drawing of a seated sibyl reading a book with putti, plus a lunette study of reclining figures.

The Cumaean Sibyl (after Michelangelo)

Jean-Robert Ango, 1767

Grey wash drawing of a forest with gnarled trees, a grazing doe and a resting stag on a path.

Bosgezicht met twee herten

Joannes de Bosch, 1760

Grey wash drawing of a canal with stone towers, a city wall, and two women working on cloth on the grassy bank.

Gezicht op de Plompetoren te Utrecht

Joannes de Bosch, 1748

Watercolour of a ship's deck with a striped mainmast, cannons, barrels, rigging and a sailor climbing the ropes.

Dekzicht van een VOC-schip naar de grote mast

Jan Brandes, 1778

Watercolor sketchbook page of sea fish and a squid, including a flying fish, a garfish and a flatfish, with Dutch notes.

Zeevissen

Jan Brandes, 1778

Pencil drawing of a vine branch with serrated leaves and curling tendrils on a pale sheet.

Tak met wingerd

Paul Theodor van Brussel, 1764

Watercolor sketch of a rainbow arching over rough sea, with smaller rainbow studies over green land and handwritten notes.

Regenbogen op zee en op land

Jan Brandes, 1778

Pencil and wash sketches of two hammerhead sharks on a sketchbook page, with handwritten Dutch annotations.

Hamerhaai

Jan Brandes, 1785

Ink and wash drawing of a funeral monument with a skull, putti, candelabra, draped curtains and a coat of arms.

Design for a Funeral Monument (Preparatory Drawing for a Print)

Johann Jakob Schübler, 1724-41

Pencil sketch of a canal with a church tower, a windmill, a crane and moored boats along the quay.

Gezicht op de Nieuwe Vaart met de Oosterkerk en de molen De Gooyer

Anthonie van Teijn, 1873

Grey wash drawing of a brick warehouse with arched windows beside a canal, with small boats on the water.

Gezicht op 's Lands Zeemagazijn aan de IJgracht

Abraham de Haen, 1717

Sepia drawing of a columned neoclassical building beside a canal with rowing boats, a bridge, and people on the quay.

Gezicht op het Paleis van Justitie aan de Prinsengracht

Augustus Wijnantz, 1805