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Drawings & Sketches

76,418 works

Engraving of hunters in feathered headgear catching geese by a pond, with decoy gourds on water and a distant town.

Catching geese

Flemish Cornelis Galle I, 1600

Woodcut of Christ in Limbo with nude figures, a fleeing demon, a banner-bearing Christ, and an old man in the foreground.

Christ in Limbo (Harrowing of Hell), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Symmetrical grotesque ornament print with a central mask, scrolls, feathers, pendants, and a small elephant at the top.

Plate 14, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)

Christoph Jamnitzer, 1600

Engraving of foxes attacking a bull and goat in a landscape, with a shepherd and sheep, Latin verses below.

Bulls and goats attacked by foxes

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Engraving of holidaymakers on a rocky seashore with children in tide pools, women with parasols, and sailboats offshore.

August in the Country - The Sea-Shore

Winslow Homer, 1850

Etching of a woman in a headwrap leaning over an open book, absorbed in reading, with fine crosshatched lines.

Woman Reading

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraved ornamental design with an arch, grotesque masks, garlands, seated figure, lions and figural panels below.

Design for Grotesque Ornament

the elder Jean Berain, 1690

Engraving of soldiers charging across a field toward smoke, with a mounted officer raising a sabre on the right.

Charge of the First Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit Near Yorktown

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of a family arriving by carriage at a snowy house for Thanksgiving, greeted by relatives at the open door.

Thanksgiving Day - Arrival at the Old Home

Winslow Homer, 1850

Wood engraving of a night street scene with top-hatted men and women in crinoline gathered around a telescope at a shop.

Boston Evening Street Scene, at the Corner of Court and Brattle Streets

Winslow Homer, 1850

Etching of a seated woman in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe reclining on cushions beside a draped curtain.

Sultane Noire (The Black Sultana), plate 28 from the series Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to…

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1740

Cut-out paper doll in a dark lace-trimmed cloak over a pale blue gown, with hands clasped at the waist.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Donna Anna from the opera "Don Juan"

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Engraved portrait of an elderly man with long grey hair, white collar and dark coat, hand resting at his waist.

Oliver Cromwell

Thomas Johnson, 1900

Head of a Young Woman

George Charles Aid, 1910

Woodblock print of travelers resting by a large tree and smoking fire in a winter field, with pines and thatched roofs behind

Hamamatsu, Wintertime, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Printed paper craft sheet with kiosk template, roof pieces, balustrade, trees, flowers and figures, hand-colored in green, re

Kiosque No. 6, Nouvelles constructions faciles pour jeunes enfants (Kiosk No. 6, New Easy Constructions for Young Chi…

Pellerin et Cie., Epinal, France, 1880

Wood engraving of a ship under construction in Gloucester Harbor, with workers on scaffolding and children playing with toy b

Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor, from Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1873, p. 900

Winslow Homer, 1870

Etching of an ornate fountain with a foliage-wrapped column and leaping animals in a colonnaded courtyard.

Fountain

Wendel Dietterlinn the Elder, 1500

Engraved magazine cover of a man and woman in a rowboat among cattails, with verse printed below.

All in the Gay and Golden Weather

Winslow Homer, 1860

Sailors struggle with a heavy canvas sail on a snowy deck while rigging and a mast rise into a stormy sky.

Winter at Sea - Taking in Sail off the Coast

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraving of children playing snap-the-whip in a grassy field beside a small schoolhouse and wooded hills.

Snap-the-Whip

Edward Lagarde, 1870

Engraved crowd scene of soldiers in caps greeting women in crinoline dresses, with a child in the foreground.

Home from the War

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved street scene of fashionable city pedestrians with parasols, top hats, dogs and a child passing a Laces & Fancy Goods

Spring in the City

Winslow Homer, 1850

Engraving of young women in period dress and a gentleman with a cane walking along a tree-lined avenue past a fence.

The Morning Walk - Young Ladies' School Promenading the Avenue

Winslow Homer, 1860

Hand-coloured paper doll costume in red with white lace sleeves, gold sash and green ribbon, hands clasped at chest.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Valentine from the opera "Die Hugenotten" (The Huguenots)

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Etching of three long-tailed ducks flying low over rough sea under a rainy, cloudy sky with a distant shoreline.

Old Squaws

Frank Weston Benson, 1910

Engraving of cavemen attacking elephants in a palm-filled landscape, with a fallen elephant being butchered in the distance.

Cavemen Chasing Elephants, plate 3 from the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraving of women unwinding silk cocoons in an arched workshop, with a child, baskets, and a town view through an archway.

Unwinding the cocoons

Flemish Philip Galle, 1590

Engraved plate of an ornate Roman-style vase with a coiled serpent, a shell-holding figure, and scrollwork decoration.

Vase (Plate 5 of a Series)

Enea Vico, 1520

Grayscale lithograph portrait of a young woman with curled hair, a plumed dark hat, and a lace-trimmed dark dress.

Melle Noblet

Henri Grévedon, 1820

Hand-colored paper doll in a cream skirt with red trim, yellow bodice and blue sleeves, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Jenny Lind Paper Doll Costume, Amine from the opera "Die Nachtwandlerin" (The Somnanbule)

Swedish Jenny Lind, 1840

Woodblock print of travelers at a lantern-lit inn courtyard with blue crest banners and tents, pine trees at right.

Seki, Early Departure, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820