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Drawings & Sketches

76,418 works

Pen and ink drawing of a fantastical landscape with a reclining sleeper, snails, hybrid creatures and boats by a river.

Sloth

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1557

Watercolor of a kneeling veiled woman praying toward an angel and a dove above a grassy field with yellow flowers.

Annunciation

Ferdinand von Wright

Pencil sketch of Knowsley Hall with battlemented towers, a columned portico and a lawn framed by trees.

Knowsley Hall

Ink and light color drawing of a songbird perched on a branch above pink plants, with calligraphy and a red seal at upper rig

Strawberry Spinach and Nightingale

Tsubaki Chinzan, c. 1845-54

Pencil and brown wash sketch of a country house with chimneys, surrounded by trees, shrubs and a garden path.

A Country House

Edward Lear, 1834

Watercolor and pencil landscape of a manor with red roofs beside a lake, with rocks and trees in the foreground.

Tervu manor in Kurkijoki

Magnus von Wright, 1860

Pencil sketch of Villa d'Este with a leaning tree on the left, cypresses on the right and a multi-storey villa behind.

Villa d'Este

Edward Lear, 1866

Pencil and watercolor sketch of wooden houses, sheds and chimneys beside a sandy pond under an overcast sky.

Katajanokka, sketch

Magnus von Wright, 1867

Grey-toned drawing of a striped tiger prowling forward on bare ground, looking toward the viewer against a dark background.

A Prowling Tiger

Elizabeth Pringle, 1800

Pencil and red chalk drawing of an elephant rubbing against a tree trunk, with grasses and dragonflies around it.

An Elephant Rubbing Itself against a Tree

Roelant Savery, 1608

Pen and brown wash drawing of a dense forest grove with gnarled trees and a small stream in the foreground.

Grove Landscape, Copy after Schirmer

Oscar Kleineh, 1868

Graphite drawing of a striped tiger lying at the mouth of a dark cave, framed by trees and rocks.

A Tiger Lying in the Entrance of a Cave

Elizabeth Pringle, 1796

Red chalk drawing of a central nude male figure with surrounding studies of heads, arms and legs in dense overlapping lines.

Lamentation (recto), c. 1530

Michelangelo, 1530

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a seaside village with wooden houses, rocky shore, boats on calm water and sailing ships.

Seaside Landscape

Pencil and watercolor sketch of Karnak temple ruins with an obelisk and palm tree under a pale sky.

Karnak, 24 February 1867 (545)

Edward Lear, 1867

Bearded prophet with staff looms over a crouching man with a sword beside a slain animal, spectral figures in the sky.

Teiresias Foretells the Future to Odysseus

Henry Fuseli, 1770

Painted study of lichen-covered boulders on grass, with pencil sketches of a distant hill and shrubs at upper right.

Stone study, Iso Lehtisaari in Espoo

Magnus von Wright, 1865

Sketch of a temple and cherry trees with people viewing blossoms on a hillside, in soft grey and pink washes.

Cherry Blossom Viewing at the Temple on Mt. Suribachi after a Design in Volume 5 of Picture Book of the Souvenirs of…

Utagawa Hiroshige, after 1850

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a Nile river view with a sailing boat, desert cliffs, and robed figures.

Just above Ekhmim

Edward Lear, 1867

Pencil sketch of kitchen utensils including pots, a jug, a bowl and a hanging lantern on a sketchbook page.

Kitchen utensils

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Watercolor and pencil sketch of a brown and white dog lying on the ground, facing right, with a faint hill behind.

Dog

Ferdinand von Wright, 1831

Watercolour sketch of a Nile riverbank with tall palms, a figure in blue, sailing boats, and a ruined villa.

Kom el Amhr, 1:00 pm, 4 January 1867 (68)

Edward Lear, 1867

Pen sketch of a theatre stage plan with sky, transparent curtain, hills, a house, and wings labeled in Polish.

Plan view of the stage for Act II of the drama

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Brown ink and wash drawing of a wooden rowing boat in side view with oars resting across the thwarts.

Boat

Panoramic watercolor sketch of a river with layered mountains, palm trees and rocky islets, with handwritten colour notes.

Korosko

Edward Lear, 1867

Pencil drawing of a gothic window with stone tracery framing a view of city rooftops and a distant church spire.

Gothic window of St. Mary’s Church

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Watercolor interior of an attic room with a writing desk, sloped window with a plant, and an open door to another room.

Interior. Writing desk and armchair, with an open door leading to another room in the background

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Pen and wash sketch of the Karnak temple ruins with a gateway, palm trees, obelisk and a sphinx statue in sand.

Karnak, 9:30 am, 24 February 1867 (546)

Edward Lear, 1867

Pencil sketches on tan paper of four winged putto figures and a bending nude woman, with handwritten inventory notes.

Sketches of four puttos and a nude woman

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a lakeshore with large boulders, a tall pine, leafless birches and reeds beside calm water.

Spring Landscape

Magnus von Wright

Aged sheet with a pounced drawing of horse chestnut leaves, blossoms and scrollwork for building polychromy.

Leaves and flowers of horse chestnut. Pounced drawing for polychromy of the Medical Society building in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a sandy shore with dry grass, rocks, and a grey sea on the horizon.

Springlike shore

Magnus von Wright, 1850