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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Loose ink sketch of a saddled horse seen from behind beside a robed rider in flowing garments on a pale ground.

Arab rider and horse

Loose brown ink sketch of a standing nude woman with raised arms and a long drape, washed with pale pink.

Standing Female Nude with Drape

Black and white chalk drawing of two hands emerging from dark clouds, tangled in twisting chains on tan paper with a black bo

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Pardon Giving and Pardon Imploring Hands

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil drawing of Saint George on a horse spearing a dragon, with a woman and forest landscape beside him.

The Holy George, killing the dragon

Franz Pforr, 1811

Pen drawing of an ornate historic house facade with carved cornices, a wrought iron gate, and a bare tree branch overhead.

Snouck-van-Loosen House in Enkhuizen

Huib Luns, 1938

Pencil sketch of a smoking volcanic island across the water, with a sleeping dog curled at the left edge.

Stromboli/Sleeping Dog

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of a hilly landscape with village buildings on a ridge, tents on the left, and olive trees and rocks in the for

Near Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of Gothic ribbed vaults and a Renaissance arch, labeled in Polish, on lined paper.

Copies of vaults and architectural details

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884

Pastel study of a symmetrical green and ochre ornamental motif on pale paper, by Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895.

Study of an ornament for the polychrome of the presbytery of the Franciscan Church in Kraków - carpet motif

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Pencil and ink study sheet with several standing figures in varied poses and handwritten numbers in the upper right.

Study of poses

Pencil sketch of a stone wall, domed buildings, a cypress tree, and a small figure in a long robe.

Red Balcony, Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown ink and wash sketch of a winged angel waking a sleeping man in prison, with studies of a reclining figure below.

Peter in prison, awakened by an angel

Rembrandt van Rijn

Watercolor study of a gnarled oak tree with spreading branches, grey-blue foliage highlighted in ochre, above rocks.

Study of a Tree

Paul Sandby, 1780

Drawing of a muscular male nude reclining on draped cloth, rendered in grey chalk with white highlights.

A Reclining Male Nude

Georg Rafael Donner

Pencil sketch of a stone archway in a masonry wall with small figures standing and seated at the gate entrance.

East Gate, Damascus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Dark drawing of a seated figure reading in a grove, deer and a stone basin with irises, with handwritten verses on a panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Thoughtful Soul to Solitude Retires

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Watercolor of a woman in a white headscarf seated beside a sleeping boy in front of a carved wooden door.

Woman with boy sleeping before a door

Angilbert Göbel, 1853

Charcoal study of two hands and forearms on aged paper, one hand gripping the wrist of the other arm.

Study of Two Hands

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Pencil sketch of several bands of mountain ridges with handwritten place labels and a date note along the bottom.

Landscapes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Brown wash drawing of soldiers attacking mothers and infants, with a central woman holding two children amid fallen figures.

The Massacre of the Innocents

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Pen and ink drawing of two men in a studio, one seated with a palette before an easel and wall portrait medallions.

"One painted the other." The artist with his brother Heinrich Jacob Tischbein in the studio

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Pencil sketch of arid hills and mountains with a row of tents and an encampment on a plain.

Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Night seascape drawing with a full moon over calm water, a sailboat silhouette, and a dark shoreline on blue paper.

Nile

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown ink and wash sketch of the Madonna and Child in glory with two saints and angels above.

The Madonna and Child in Glory with Saint Theodore and a Monastic Saint

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1708

Pencil sketch on tan paper of architectural details including cornices, a scroll bracket, and a fireplace in an interior corn

Loose sketches, including architectural details and a fragment of the interior of the Hall under the Birds

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pen and ink drawing of a tall church tower with a clock and columned portico, with a man carrying a sack in the foreground.

Michael's Church

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pen drawing of a white lion pulling a chained carriage with a bearded archer, with the words 'Why not learn to write?'

Why not learn to write?

n.d J. C. Saterlee, 1860

Ink drawing of a baroque palace with wings and a fenced forecourt, with a horse carriage and elegant figures on a lawn.

View of Falkenlust Castle from the East

Pencil sketch of a lakeshore with ruined stone buildings on a rise and rolling hills in the distance.

Tiberias from the Baths

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Untitled (standing female figure)

George Ault, 1920

Ink drawing of Falkenlust Castle seen across open grounds, with riders, walkers in long dresses, and birds in the sky.

View of Falkenlust Castle from the Southeast

Pencil sketch of a kneeling man tending an injured figure beside a standing donkey, on tan paper.

The Good Samaritan