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Drawings & Sketches

76,603 works

Loose oil sketch of an older man's head and shoulders turned to the side against a dark background.

Portrait Sketch (Charles H. Freeman)

Joseph Frank Currier

Untitled (seated female figure)

George Ault, 1920

Pen drawing of a boy dancing before seated figures, a lute player, a hookah and dogs under trees, 1833.

Boy dancing before an assembly of Orientals

Johann Michael Wittmer, 1833

Painted portrait of a man with a moustache in a dark jacket and white collar, against a grey textured background.

The Sculptor Nils E. Santesson

Valle Rosenberg, 1916

Pencil and wash drawing of a room with tall windows, classical columns, wooden chairs, benches, framed pictures and a piano.

Philadelphia

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil sketch of a mud-brick house with a bare tree and figures above, and a cliff and riverside town below.

Gebel el Haridi

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil drawing of a camel caravan passing a city gate, with turbaned figures, a horse at a fountain, and a dog.

Caravan at the bridge gate

Johann Michael Wittmer, 1833

Watercolour of a standing peasant woman in grey coat and green skirt, with two pencil head studies beside her.

Seisova talonpoikaisnainen sekä kaksi naispäätä Jaakkimasta

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Grey chalk drawing of a dying saint reclining as angels and cherubs gather around him in the clouds.

Dying Saint Francis surrounded by angels

François Perrier

Pencil sketch of a conical volcano with a billowing smoke plume drifting sideways over layered mountain ridges.

Etna

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a hilltop town with stone walls and buildings above terraced fields, with a rounded hill behind.

Pizzo

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen sketch of a tiered church iconostasis with arched doors and painted saint icons, annotated with handwritten notes.

Iconostasis of St. Paraskeva Church in Lviv

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Pencil sketches of a carved column capital and a rooftop with a water tower, ladder and brick wall.

Alexandria (Rooftop/Cap of a Column)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Black chalk drawing of bearded winged Chronos cutting the wings of a nude Amor lying across his lap.

Chronos cuts off Amor's wings

François Perrier, 1630

Pencil and watercolor study sheet of peasant women in traditional headscarves and a colored costume figure.

Talonpoikaisnaisia Kronoborgista

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Brown wash drawing of a river with a sailing boat, a round stone tower, ruined arches and a distant windmill.

Flat coastal landscape with an old tower and windmill

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1769

Pencil design on tracing paper of stylized fern fronds and a curled fiddlehead, arranged along vertical guide lines.

Vetch. Design for painted decoration of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor sketch of two thatched huts with wooden doors, ducks, a cow, and a standing figure in a hat.

Wells, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pencil sketch of a flowering plant with a spike of pea-like blossoms and long narrow leaves on tan paper.

(Untitled--Flower Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Oil sketch of a hazy mountain valley with rocky foreground, scrub, a small white building and clouded sky.

Landscape Study

Jan Nowopacký, 1860

Watercolor landscape of a winding river through a valley, framed by trees in the foreground and hills beyond.

Landscape with Winding River

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Green-toned drawing of a chaotic scene of soldiers and struggling figures before a classical temple, with a commander at righ

Rape of the Sabines

Vincenzo Camuccini, c. 1820

Monochrome drawing of a woman mourning at a stone memorial under a weeping willow, with a town and church behind.

In Memory of Beloved Parents Oloff and Betsey Hanson

n.d Hanson Family Member, 1830

Crazy French Monk...Mt. Sinai

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown wash drawing of a round stone tower on a riverbank, figures in the foreground, and a ruined bridge across the water.

River landscape, in the foreground a round tower, in the middle ground on an island a square tower, with ruins of a b…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1769

Rear view of a woman in a red Finnish folk costume with headscarf, drawn in watercolor and pencil with handwritten note.

Kansallispukuinen nainen

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Sheep

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Ink sketch of an elderly man in a wide-brimmed hat and long coat, seen from behind, leaning on a walking stick.

Old man

Pencil drawing of a hooded robed figure gazing upward among several lions in a rocky landscape.

Daniel in the lions' den

Alfred Rethel, 1838

Pencil and wash drawing of a bearded man in a blue turban seated with clasped hands, gazing at the viewer.

Untitled (Hill Tribesman)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of tall eroded cliffs above trees and a rocky foreground, with handwritten inscription at lower left.

Tongue River Cliffs (In Camp)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Loose pastel drawing of a man's head in blue, green and orange strokes on a tan ground.

Portrait of a Man

Valle Rosenberg, 1912