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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Pen and ink sketch of a rural landscape with farmhouses, a tower, and two men leading a laden pack animal.

Italian landscape with two men and a pack animal

Pencil and watercolor sketch of market figures: women with fruit baskets, men in top hats bargaining, and a walking soldier.

Fruit sellers

Martinus Rørbye, 1832

Pen and ink study with green wash of a bound nude male figure with arms raised, beside a draped cloaked figure.

Study for Saint Sebastian

Ink and wash drawing of Saint Bartholomew's martyrdom below, with the Madonna and Child and two saints among clouds above.

Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, above in clouds the Madonna with Child, on both sides the Saints John the Baptist and…

Watercolor drawing of a grey rhinoceros with a reddish horn walking left across a grassy field with shrubs.

Rhinoceros

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Watercolour of a grassland plain with ox wagons and mountains under blue clouds, labelled Cafferlands Bergen tegen 't Noorden

Amathole Mountains

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Watercolour drawing of a standing Xhosa woman with a young girl holding a bowl, both wearing beaded necklaces, on grass.

Xhosa woman and daughter

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Hand-coloured drawing of a standing man with spears, leopard-skin cloak, beaded necklace and feathered headband, dated 1776.

Xhosa man

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Hand-coloured drawing of a standing woman with a child on her back, holding a walking stick, on grassy ground.

Xhosa woman and child

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Pencil sketch of a domed building, city walls, small boats and a rowboat in the foreground at a harbor.

Carth at Sidon

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil drawing of a veiled woman in draped clothing holding an oil lamp against a dark background.

Copy of the portrait of a woman in vestal clothes by Angelika Kauffmann

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1882

Grey wash drawing of nude women bathing in a stream under a rocky hillside with a tree, a hunter with bow at right.

Diana surprised by Actaeon

Cornelius van Poelenburgh

Hand-coloured drawing of a standing woman with beaded necklaces, a feathered headdress and a spotted staff on grass.

Xhosa woman

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Hand-coloured drawing of a wooded mountain ridge with ox wagons traveling a dirt road below under pale clouds.

Groot Bruintjieshoogte (left half)

Johannes Schumacher, 1776

Pencil sketch of the Theban Mountains with cliffs, hills and a row of palm trees under a long horizon line.

View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Graphite drawing of a nude man seen from behind with both arms spread wide, on toned brown paper.

Male with Arms Spread Wide Seen from Behind

Nude woman holding an apple beside a serpent on a tree, with a winged cherub and a verse inscription in a garden.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) In the Beginning

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen and grey wash drawing of the Arch of Constantine in Rome with surrounding ancient ruins and small figures.

Rome, A View of the Arch of Constantine with Other Ruins

Brown wash drawing of a lute player and a singing old woman beside a candle on a stool in a dark interior.

Lute player with singing old woman by burning candle on a three-legged stool

Pencil sketch of a shoe on a sketchbook page, with faint smudged studies around it.

Detail of closure

James Ensor, 1905

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded classical sea god statue standing on a pedestal beside a dolphin, with a draped cloth.

Statue of Neptune, Venice

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Chalk drawing of a draped figure reaching toward a laurel wreath with a monogram, above a dedication plaque.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Dedication

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal self-portrait of a bearded man with a direct gaze, buttoned coat, and dark hatched background.

Self-portrait

Józef Chełmoński, 1904

Brown chalk drawing of a forest path with trees, a rocky bank, and small figures struggling at the lower left.

A forest path, a wanderer is attacked by two men

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a wooden cart and a wooden frame with rope, with a leather strap and buckle below.

Wooden Cart, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pen and ink drawing of a man in a powdered wig seen from behind, holding a quill beside a handwritten letter.

Self-portrait

James Jefferys, 1771

Pen and wash drawing of agitated figures in a classical colonnade, with raised arms and a central standing man in a toga.

The Body of Lucretia Exposed to the Romans

James Jefferys, 1777

Col. Wm. Duane

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1770

Graphite and brown wash landscape drawing with rocky hills on the left, a winding path, and hazy distant figures.

Landscape

Johann Wilhelm Schirmer

Ink ground plan of a church with a long nave, apse, side chapels and two scale bars below.

Plan for SS Carlo e Ambrogio al Corso, Rome

Carl Hårleman, 1726

Ink and wash drawing of a muscular man with raised arms beside a skull and winged witch-like figures.

Macbeth and the Witches

James Northcote, 1777

Loose oil study of two children reading a book together, one in a dark jacket and one in a red dress.

Study of two children