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Drawings & Sketches

76,426 works

Pale wash drawing of the Thames with boats, a tall obelisk on the right, and Westminster Abbey's towers in the distance.

The City of Westminster from Near the York Water Gate

Canaletto, 1746

Pen and ink drawing of a standing female nude with hand on hip, hair piled up, drawn in fine hatched lines.

Standing female nude

Ivan Žabota, 1903

Watercolor drawing of three women in period bonnets and dresses talking before a stone pedestal.

Group of Three Ladies

Anthony Highmore

Pencil double portrait of a young man in a striped tie and an older mustached man, drawn on tan paper.

Double portrait

Ivan Žabota, 1925

Pale watercolor of women in 18th-century bonnets and cloaks standing beside a column and archway.

Ladies Beside a Column and Arcade

Anthony Highmore

Ink drawing of three stylized thistle plants with decorative outlines on a worn tan sheet, with red guide lines.

Meadow thistle. Design for the polychromy of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Pencil sketch of a woman in a feathered hat seated beside a man, with other figures in a room with curtains.

Company

Ivan Žabota, 1910

Pencil sketch of two standing men by a tree with a peacock in outline at lower right, on a sketchbook page.

Two gentlemen and peacock

Pencil sketch of a man seated at a table facing a woman with a child on her shoulder, with wooden chairs in the foreground.

Sitting

Ivan Žabota, 1905

Ink drawing of a landscape with a curving lake, framing trees, classical ruins, and a distant mountain under a pale sky.

Landscape with a Lake and Distant Mountain

Alexander Cozens, 1750

Pencil sketch of an elderly bearded man in a long coat, cap and wooden clogs, hands clasped, standing frontally.

Warsaw Jew

Józef Chełmoński, 1888

Colored crayon drawing of a seated nude woman with long hair, seen from behind, on green grass.

Act in grass

Ivan Žabota, 1920

Brown wash drawing of a sailboat on a calm river with dark trees on the right bank and hills beyond.

River and Boat

Alexander Cozens, 1770

Pencil sketch of a standing male nude seen from behind, arms raised to the head, on tan paper with handwritten notes.

Copy of a male nude from a drawing by Raphael

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pencil portrait of a young girl with a bob haircut, gazing downward, wearing a ruffled collar.

Portrait study of a young girl

Ivan Žabota, 1935

Monochrome drawing of a rocky wooded island with a small tower in calm sea under an empty pale sky.

Fantastic Landscape

Alexander Cozens, 1780

Pencil sketch on tan paper of an elderly bald man with a mustache, looking sideways with a serious expression.

Head of an old man

Ivan Žabota, 1935

Pencil and wash drawing of a small sailing ship on a calm sea beneath heavy grey clouds at evening.

Evening at Sea

Alfred Abram Constable

Black chalk and white highlight study of a man in a crouched pose, one arm raised, on blue-gray paper.

Study for The Siege of Gibraltar

John Singleton Copley, c. 1785-86

Pencil sketch of an angled timber structure with small figures at its base, with handwritten notes on tan paper.

Drawing of a fragment of the bas-relief

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pencil drawing of a seated nude man leaning forward and holding a long stick across his knees.

Man with a stick

Ivan Žabota, 1900

Brown ink drawing of two trees, one leafy and one wind-swept, above rolling hills and grass.

Study of Two Willows

Alexander Cozens, 1760

Pen and ink portrait of a man in a powdered wig and lace jabot, with cursive name inscription, on ruled sketchbook paper.

Copy of the portrait of Joachim Chreptowicz. Sketchbook page 21

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1879

Pencil sketch of a bobbed-haired woman seated in a wicker chair, looking down and adjusting her stocking.

Sitting female dancer

Ivan Žabota, 1925

Brown wash drawing of a ruined circular temple on a hilltop, framed by trees, with distant hills and birds in the sky.

Landscape with a Ruined Temple

Alexander Cozens, 1746

Charcoal drawing of a man's head with closed eyes, framed by dark hatched shading in an oval on pale paper.

Dead monk

Loose oil sketch of a young girl resting her head on her hand beside a vase of yellow tulips on a table.

Portrait Sketch of a Young Girl - two-sided painting

Olga Boznańska, 1894

Pencil and white chalk study of a seated nude male model and a standing figure seen from behind in a studio.

Model in atelier

Ivan Žabota, 1900

Dusk coastal landscape with orange and rose sunset clouds over dark silhouetted hills and a ruin on a ridge.

Close of the Day: Sunset on the Coast

Alexander Cozens, 1768

Pencil sketch of a young girl's head turned slightly, with a faint smile and hair pulled back, on tan paper.

Head of a girl

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Sitting young lady

Ivan Žabota, 1925

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with large trees, an arched stone structure, and a low wall in the foreground.

Hyde Park

Alexander Cozens, 1746