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Drawings & Sketches

75,832 works

Charcoal sketch of a seated nude woman with dark hair, one arm raised to her head, on cream paper.

Seated Female Nudes

Watercolor of a multi-arched stone bridge over a river, with towers and houses behind it and two figures on the bank.

View of a Bridge at Angers

David Young Cameron

Graphite drawing of a young woman's head in a light headscarf, looking directly at the viewer, with sketched background.

Head of Mary B. Thayer

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Pale pastel drawing of a willow tree over a soft meadow and faint horizon on tan paper.

Willow

John Henry Twachtman, 1830

Ink and wash sketch of a seated female dancer in a full skirt, with loose brown shading and dark contour lines.

Standing Female Dancer

Grey wash drawing of Edinburgh Castle on a rock, with stone walls, a domed sentry box and small figures on a terrace.

View of Edinburgh Castle

David Young Cameron

Nude: Study of a Young Girl

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Pencil sketch of a woman holding a tennis racket beside two studies of nude figures, one seated and one kneeling.

Woman with Tennis Racket and Two Figure Studies

Graphite sketch of a steep Yellowstone canyon slope with pine forest, a jagged rock spire, and boulders in the foreground.

From near Inspiration Point, Yellowstone Canyon

Thomas Moran, 1890

Stippled charcoal drawing of two intertwined nude female figures in an angular, sketch-like composition.

Two Nude Female Figures

Pencil sketch of a tall church tower with spire beside a street, with trees and a small figure in front.

Church, St.-Germain-des-Prés, France

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Profile of an Ideal Female Head

William Page, 1810

Charcoal drawing of a uniformed man seen from behind at a canteen counter where women in white caps serve food.

A.R.C. Canteen, World War I

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Pencil sketch of clouds over distant mountains with numbered color notes written across the top of the page.

Catskill Mountains at Sunset, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pen and ink bookplate design with a Gothic cathedral behind a shield reading J. J. MacLehose, Glasgow, framed by trees.

Alternative design for the bookplate of James J. MacLehose

David Young Cameron

Pencil and chalk drawing of a masted ship stranded on wide tidal flats at low tide, with small figures on shore.

At the seashore in Mantoloking

Howard Russell Butler, 1880

Pink-lit mountain at sunrise rising above a still lake, with dark rocks and forest along the shore.

Mt. Katahdin at Sunrise, from Katahdin Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a man, a woman with a child, and an ox cart with large wooden wheels in an open landscape.

Yoke of Oxen

Winslow Homer, 1870

Oil sketch of a rushing waterfall over mossy rocks with trees above and a faint rainbow in the spray at lower right.

Top of Tequendama Falls, near Bogotá, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil sketch of alpine mountains glowing pink at sunset above dark forested slopes and a golden meadow with a lone pine.

Bavarian Alps at Sunset, Germany

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Engraving of a carved Buddhist rock-cut temple with arched doorway and sculptures, with two figures standing below.

Buddhist Rock-Cut Temple, Ajunta, India

William Simpson, 1876

Small sketch of a Roman landscape at dusk with a domed basilica, villa, bare trees and a river in the foreground.

Claude's Villa and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Faint pencil sketch of distant mountain ridges and hills on a brown toned sheet of paper.

Mountainous Landscape, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Small landscape study of a wooded ridge with distant hills under a pale sky with pink clouds.

Wooded Landscape with Hills

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Engraved landscape of a domed stupa on a rocky plain, with mountains behind and armed men and a rider in the foreground.

The Ahin Posh Tope and Vihara, near Jellalabad

William Simpson, 1879

Engraved view over a harbor and city with steamships, wooden houses, a cemetery in the foreground, and minarets in the distan

Constantinople, View of the City and the Golden Horn

William Simpson, 1896

Pencil sketch of a distant hilly landscape above figure studies of men in robes, one with a rifle, with handwritten color not

Figure Sketches with Landscape, Petra, Syria (Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of the Temple of Jupiter columns at Baalbek with scattered fallen stones in the foreground.

Temple of Jupiter at Sunrise, Baalbek, Syria (Lebanon)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of rolling hills under a pale sky with a glowing horizon, annotated with handwritten color notes.

Winter Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of thatched huts on stilts behind a wooden fence, with leafy trees at right, on grey-green paper.

Street with Houses, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and wash drawing of layered Andean-style mountains and hills receding into a hazy sky, with a white patch in the foreg

Mountains near Guanujo and Guaranda, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Loose oil sketch of a sunset with orange light behind dark clouds over a mountain ridge and dark green foreground.

Sunset across the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880