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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Head of a horse and a foal to the left

Teutwart Schmitson

Pen drawing of an ornate arched frame design with scrolling foliage and two putti on either side.

Design for a frame with two putti

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1700

Pencil sketch of a hillside village with flat-roofed houses, hills behind, and a carved stone fragment in the upper left.

Samaria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and watercolor drawing of a cross-hatched city skyline with a central spire under banded blue, red and yellow evening sky

Evening

Karl Wiener, 1921

Pen and brown wash study of a striped tiger with sketches of climbing monkeys beside it on pale paper.

Study for a Tiger and Monkeys

James Northcote

Pen and brown ink sketch of four figures around a table in an interior, with a standing woman and seated men.

Saul and the Witch of Endor

Rembrandt van Rijn

Drawing of a nude woman with long hair on stone steps beside a lamp, with a verse panel in calligraphy above.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Long Rest

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Brown ink and wash design of classical gods and cherubs among clouds above columns and a cornice, for a ceiling.

A Design for a Ceiling

James Thornhill

Pencil and ink architectural sketch of a palace wall with columns, panels, a cornice and seated female figures above.

Sketch for the southern wall in the Hall of State at the Royal Palace in Stockholm

Carl Hårleman, 1730

Red chalk sketch of a southern harbor with a sailing boat, stone tower, and workers loading goods beside a donkey.

Southern harbor scene, on the right bank goods are being packed and loaded onto a donkey

Johannes Lingelbach

Travel in the living room

Pastel portrait of a young blonde woman in a dark blue dress with cape sleeves against a green background.

Portrait of a young lady

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1894

Pencil sketch of a rocky shore with a boat mast and rigging, distant hills and trees, by Thomas Moran.

The Fan

Thomas Moran, 1890

Drawing of a songbird on a skull with a ribbon reading Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, surrounded by petals and swirling lines.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Omar's Emblem

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil and ink drawing of a crowded Weymouth beach with sunbathers, seafront terraces, a church spire and a distant pier.

Weymouth Bay, The High Season

Muirhead Bone, 1946

Pencil and brown wash sketch of a church tower and riverside buildings with moored boats and trees.

Fullham Church

James Stark, 1804

Watercolor of a grassy park with footbridges, red-roofed houses, a church tower and apartment blocks beyond a waterway.

View of the Jan van Galenpark

Frans Everbag, 1938

Watercolor of a brick church with a tall tower beside a canal, with barges, houses and figures on the towpath.

View of the Saint Augustine Church from the Postjeskade

Frans Everbag, 1887

Watercolor of a star-shaped striped flower, green succulent stems and a pale bud, framed by blue lines.

Sea Star Flower (Stapelia hirsuta)

Nicolaas Juweel, 1675

Brown watercolor sketch sheet showing rooftops, masts, women in bonnets, a child, and geese and ducks in a yard.

Sketch sheet with the Nieuwebrug and various female figures

Christiaan Andriessen, 1785

Pencil sketch of a man in a long coat and fur hat, seen from behind, hand on hip, leaning on a table edge.

The Artist Nicolaas Pieneman Standing at a Table

Cornelis Kruseman, 1824

Chalk drawing of a draped woman beside a vine and vessel, with handwritten Rubaiyat verses on a brown ground.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Vine

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil drawing of a city with church spires and a bridge on the left, and fragmented geometric abstract shapes on the right.

City Scene--Abstract

Grey wash drawing of a winter village with skaters on a frozen river, a ruined church on a hill, and a bare tree at left.

Month picture January, top right the sign of Aquarius

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Grey wash drawing of a calm canal with wooden houses, a rowboat with one figure, and clouds reflected in the water.

View of the Slotervaart from the Surinameplein

Anthonie van Teijn, 1927

Study for Portrait of Mrs. Atherton Curtis

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Pen and wash design of a classical staircase wall with columns, relief panels and an allegorical painted ceiling above.

Design for Ceiling Walls and Staircase

James Thornhill, 1712

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a cloche hat and scarf, face turned upward, loosely hatched shading on cream paper.

Head of Woman

Pen and grey wash drawing of gardeners working in a formal garden beside tall trees and a manor house, with a bull roundel.

Month picture April, top right the sign of Taurus

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Graphite sketch of a reclining figure draped in cloth on a couch, with soft shading against a dark background.

Study of the Hermaphrodite

Pen and wash drawing of a rural road with horsemen, farm workers, a timber barn and a distant village under a large tree.

Month picture August, top left the sign of Virgo

Matthäus Merian, 1622

Watercolor of a seaside town with rooftops, chimneys, small figures on a promenade, and sailboats on the sea.

Untitled (Seaside Town)

Ida Josephine Burgess