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Drawings & Sketches

76,581 works

Pencil sketch sheet with architectural studies of a Gothic arch, a building corner, and small figures in cloaks.

Architectural and figural sketches

Carl Werner, 1829

Pencil sketch on tan paper of architectural fragments and room plans with notes and small boat drawings.

Sketches of architectural fragments, plans of rooms

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Chalk drawing of a bishop's head in a tall mitre with crosses, smiling faintly, on tinted paper.

The Spirit of Justice - Study for Head of a Bishop

Ford Madox Brown, 1844

Painted study of military saddles, bridles, sabres, fur headdresses and a crowned pouch on a brown ground.

Studies of Military Accoutrements: a study for `The Battle of Waterloo'

George Jones, 1815

Watercolor and pencil drawing of an Egyptian temple interior with columns, stone fragments, animal sculptures, and a small fi

Ancient and Modern Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of pollarded willows with laundry hanging, a woman and child resting below, and a village with a church tower b

Laundry is being dried under willow trees, below lies a woman with a child, in the background a village

Johann Christoph Erhard

Pencil drawing in a circle of a young woman with long hair holding an open book, signed Ford Madox Brown 1848.

Wycliffe Reading his Translation of the Bible - Study of young Woman representing the Protestant Faith

Ford Madox Brown, 1848

Brown ink and wash drawing of Venice's lagoon with ships, gondolas, the Doge's Palace and figures on a terrace.

View on Venice

Friedrich Nerly

Oil study of two officers in dark braided hussar jacket and red tunic with feathered shako, on brown ground.

Studies of Royal Horse Artillery Uniform, and of an A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief: a study for 'The Battle of Wate…

George Jones, 1815

Ink and wash drawing of a stylised ornamental motif with looping scrolls, a dark central medallion and curved side elements.

Stylised Flower Basket - Embellishment to

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1897

Pen and ink studies of reclining camels, including a saddled camel and a sketched camel head, on pale paper.

(Camel Studies)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil study on brown paper of a turbaned man leaning over a reclining woman with loose hair, with sketches at right.

Parisina's Sleep - Study for Prince Azo and Parisina

Ford Madox Brown, 1842

Watercolor sheet of tree studies: umbrella pines, a date palm, an agave, and windswept shrubs on a pale background.

Tree studies from Rome

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1846

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a head covering holding a child on her lap, drawn on speckled tan paper.

Mother and Child (recto)

Paul Gauguin, 1870s

Pen and ink drawing of mounted officers and soldiers with flags riding along a road toward distant ships.

The Surrender of Cornwallis

F. Luis Mora, 1930

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a blouse raising her arms to braid long hair, with a patterned cloth draped over her legs.

Roman woman braiding her hair

August Lucas, 1850

Ink sketch of a crouching lioness tearing at prey on the ground, drawn with loose dark hatched strokes on grey paper.

Lioness tearing prey

Black and white ink drawing of a tree framing a distant town with church spires and a white fountain in a garden.

Untitled - H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Drawing of a nude woman seen from behind raising a wine cup, with a bending figure above and verses of the Rubáiyát beside he

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Cup of Love

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of beggars receiving alms at a doorway, with cloaked figures and a child seen from behind.

Beggars Receiving Alms at the Door of a House

James Ensor, 1885

Pencil sketch of a carved column capital with scrolls and acanthus leaves on a grey-green paper.

Capital of Column at Theatre at Azani

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a curly-haired putto leaning forward inside a faint circular frame.

Putto between vines

Moritz von Schwind

Charcoal drawing of a woman in a headscarf watching a child bent over an open book on a table.

Maternal concern

Pencil sketch of a nude putto seen from behind, holding grapes and twisting within a circular scroll frame.

Putto between vines, in rear view

Moritz von Schwind

Pencil sketch of a rocky canyon with steep cliffs and a winding road, inscribed Yellowstone Park, Golden Gate.

Yellowstone Park, Golden Gate

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of Greek island coastlines with a castle on a hilltop and handwritten labels for Naxos and Paros.

Naxos/Castle of Paros

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Loose ink and colored pencil sketch of a nude woman reclining on a bed with raised legs, against a grey background.

Reclining Female Nude

Pencil sketch of billowing clouds over rolling hills, with handwritten color notes including gray and blue.

Lower Geyser Basin

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of ruined stone church walls and an arch, with a grazing camel and distant hills beneath a pale sky.

Ruin of Christian Church, Tyre

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a seated man with bowed head, apparently writing or reading at a table, on a sketchbook page.

Man writing or reading

Pencil sketch of a woman in evening dress beside a classical statue figure, on aged yellowed paper.

Lady in Evening Dress with Figure of Venus de Milo

William Page, 1870

Red chalk drawing of a woman and a man in a cap standing close together before a sketched tree.

Figure Study

Alfred Philippe Roll, 1910