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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Sketches of figures and a woman’s head in profile

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Pen and watercolor drawing of a bearded hermit standing in an arched niche of a ruined stone chapel beside a clay jug.

Hermit before a stone chapel

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman and a nude figure with a crescent headpiece, with two cupids on a cloud above.

Jupiter, in the guise of Diana, approaches Callisto

Johannes van Dreght, 1780

Etching of two goats and a kid resting under a tree, with a flat landscape and church spire in the distance.

Two Goats and a Kid

Johann Heinrich Roos

Charcoal drawing of a reclining man on a stone slab beneath a hovering shrouded figure and starry sky, with a verse panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Suicide

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil drawing of a small hut beside a pond with tall trees, reeds, and a winding path under a cloudy sky.

A hut on a pond

Carl Ernst Morgenstern

Watercolor drawing of a rustic timber hermit's hut with a bell and cross, and a small saint statue, among trees.

Hermit's hut with statue of a saint

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Grey wash drawing of a snowy winter farmhouse with bare trees and two people gathering firewood in the foreground.

Winter landscape with wood gatherers in front of a farmhouse

Pieter Pietersz. Barbiers, 1838

Pencil sketch of an old wooden alms box with iron bands and a pitched roof on a stone base, drawn on tan paper.

An Ancient Alms Box, Walsingham Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1805

Grey wash drawing of a stone tower with an angler seated by an arch and a woman walking a road in the foreground.

Landscape with angler and walking woman near a fortress tower

Pieter Pietersz. Barbiers, 1838

Pencil sketch of a seated painter at an easel in a studio, with a draped model at left and plaster casts on shelves.

Painter working from model

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Loudly playing angel

Watercolor stage design of a marble colonnade with Corinthian columns opening onto a loggia and distant landscape with a spir

Design for a stage set of a colonnade with loggia

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Pen and watercolor design of a symmetrical church interior with gilded columns, a central altar, and a saint statue, dated 17

Design for a stage set of a church interior

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a bearded man beside clay pots, with handwritten Rubaiyat verses in a central panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Ungainly Pot

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil drawing of a church spire rising above riverside cottages, with a moored boat and trees along the water.

Great Marlow Church, Buckinghamshire

Thomas Girtin, 1795

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a fallen tree trunk leaning against a rock face, with distant blue hills at left.

Tree Trunk Leaning Against a Rock. Norway

Martinus Rørbye, 1830

Pen and wash drawing of a sea horse and a winged putto among scrolling grotesque ornament.

Grotesque with sea horse and putto

Peter Flötner, 1550

Pen and watercolor design of a neoclassical room with green paneled walls, gilt mirror, console table and two tall windows.

Design for a stage set of an interior

Pieter Barbiers, 1779

Pencil drawing of a street vendor with a barrel cart talking to a woman and child on a cobbled quay with ship masts behind.

Children with a street vendor along a quay

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Grey wash drawing of a lagoon with rowing boats, fishing nets, a flagged vessel, tree-lined shores and cattle on the bank.

Governor Loten and his Entourage on Negombo Lagoon

Pieter de Bevere, 1754

Pencil drawing of a fortified harbor front with sailing ships and rowboats on calm water under a pale sky.

View of Colombo

Pieter de Bevere, 1755

Panoramic engraving of sailing ships on calm water with a wooded coastline, hills, and shoreline buildings under a pale sky.

View of the fort in Galle in Ceylon

Pieter de Bevere, 1755

Watercolor study of men in a legislative chamber beneath two winged allegorical figures, within a gilded arched frame.

A Legislative Session (study for panel, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Grey wash drawing of a village with a church steeple below steep, wooded mountains and patchwork fields in a valley.

Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France

Henry Swinburne

Grey wash drawing of a town street with a church, rooftops and a group of figures in period dress near a halberd guard.

Labor of the month February

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Watercolor of a frozen harbour in winter with skaters, moored sailing boats, gabled houses and a clock tower.

Winter view in Harlingen

Nicolaas Baur, 1777

Red chalk drawing of a man in a curled periwig and buttoned coat, shown in bust length, dated 1700.

Portrait of Mattheus Brouerius van Nidek

Frans Berkhuys, 1700

Pencil sketch with green accents of a rocky landscape, trees, and a grotto entrance on a hillside.

Exterior of Grotto, Aldberg

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of Constantinople's fortified waterfront with towers, minarets and two sailing boats on the water.

Constantinople

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Red chalk architectural studies with rococo scrolls, moldings, a lattice window and a figure in a niche.

Studies for the Royal Chapel, Stockholm. Wall elevations and profiles

Carl Hårleman, 1723

Five Classical Heads

Inigo Jones, 1630