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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Loose painting of a frosty river under grey skies, with bare trees and shrubs lining the bank and pale ice on the water.

A Grey Frosty Morning, Sketch, Brookville

Pencil sketch of a building with hanging laundry, a robed figure at a doorway, and two arched openings.

House of the Governor of Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of layered coastal headlands and distant mountains, labeled Ida, Patroclus, Achilles, and Entering the Dardanel

Dardanelles

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil landscape sketch of a village with a church tower beneath rolling hills and a distant mountain ridge.

Landscape with church

Johann Christoph Erhard

Pencil landscape drawing of a river valley with rolling hills, a tall lone tree, and a small boat on the water.

Motif from the Lahn valley

Peter Becker, 1857

Architectural drawing with a first floor plan of labelled rooms and a roof plan with an observatory, dated 1752.

Design for a School Building in Karlstad. First floor plan and roof plan with the observatory

Carl Hårleman, 1752

Pencil sketch of a camp stool, a bedstead with animal-shaped legs, and a seated figure beside a small stand.

Campstool/Beadstand

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch in a small notebook of carpentry tools and a sawhorse, with a numbered page corner.

Drawing of carpentry tools

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Pencil sketch of a ruined stone city wall with an arched niche, a cobbled path, a tree, and distant hills.

Wall of Zareh, Damascus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil and watercolor street view of half-timbered houses, a church tower, and a castle ruin on a hill.

Philippstein near Weilburg

Peter Becker, 1877

Watercolor of Naples harbor with a red lighthouse, moored ships, sailing boats, and a dark stormy sky over the coast.

Naples from the Moli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Study Head (Old Man)

Samuel G. Richards

Pencil sketch of rocky mountain ledges and slopes with sparse vegetation, inscribed "Sinai from Horeb".

Sinai from Horeb

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel drawing of a harbor with steamships, masts and a glowing moon under a swirling green and yellow sky.

Untitled (NMG 1,248)

Will Henry Stevens, 1940

Grey wash drawing of a young man in a vaulted hall under an arch, with a pope figure, skeleton with scythe, and cherub above.

Henry II's dream

Franz Pforr, 1810

Charcoal drawing of a night city street with an elevated railway, tall buildings, a searchlight beam, and a lone pedestrian.

New York Night (recto)

Muirhead Bone, c. 1920-40

Brown and white chalk drawing of a reclining woman with flowing hair above handwritten verses, framed by blossoms and a water

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Invitation

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of a tall rococo tiled stove with an arched firebox, monogram cartouche, and crown finial.

Draft for a Tiled Stove

Carl Hårleman, 1748

Pencil sketch of five figures in hats and a bonnet seated around a wooden tavern table, with a heart-carved chair in front.

Peasants of the Kinzig valley at a tavern table

Grey drawing of a kneeling old woman silhouetted beside a wooden cross in a cemetery at dusk, with trees behind.

Old woman kneeling in prayer in a cemetery

Watercolor study of a seated allegorical woman in gold above two miners working with tools, framed by laurel and scrollwork,

Mining (study for panel, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Title page drawing for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Elihu Vedder, with lettering framed by blossoms and a knot motif.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Title Page

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a tomb entrance beside an ancient Egyptian boat, with a standing figure, serpents and hieroglyphs.

Entrance of Tomb of Kings, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of three dogs resting on a pavement beside a building facade, with loose hatched shading.

Three dogs

James Ensor, 1880

Study sheet with heads, Johann David Passavant above, Julius Hamel below

Albert Hendschel

Loose pencil sketch of an angel with outstretched arms among crowded figures and clouds, with handwritten notes on the right.

Sketch of composition with figures and an angel

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Graphite pencil drawing of a flowering plant with frilled blossoms, buds, hairy stems, and lobed leaves on cream paper.

(Untitled--Plant Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1940

Red chalk drawing of a pastoral pond scene with nude figures, cattle, trees and a cloudy sky.

Classical Subject

Émile-René Ménard, 1930

Pencil sketch of saddled and grazing horses, a horse head study, and a rider with a lasso on horseback.

Tartar riding horses, on the right a rider with a lasso

Teutwart Schmitson

Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs and a sloping hillside, with handwritten notes including Yellowstone Park, July 1892.

Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of two robed men seated indoors, one in a hooded cloak and one smoking a long pipe.

Bedouin

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil drawing of a woman resting beneath poplar trees beside a river, framed by trees on both sides.

Resting woman under poplar trees by the river

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866