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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Loose oil sketch of women in headscarves, a man in a hat, a standing woman in red, and a kneeling figure on tan ground.

Study of Slovak Types

Josef Navrátil, 1840

Chalk study on tinted paper of a muscular male figure with outstretched arm, plus smaller head and draped figure sketches.

Study after Raphael's "The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple" as well as female figures

Nicolas Poussin

Drawing of a printed Dutch poem in an allegorical stone frame with a sword, laurel wreath, skull and Libertas scroll.

Poem in honor of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt in allegorical frame, 1619

Gerard van Nijmegen, 1778

Pencil drawing of a procession with a crowned queen on a canopied cart, winged torch bearers on horseback, and walking men.

Rhetoricians' procession with a horse-drawn cart with queen, 1620

S. van Zanten, 1800

Pen and watercolour drawing of a gothic church interior with banners, columns, and a man, child and dog in the foreground.

Interior of the Old Church

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1736

Pencil sketch of a curved wall and colonnade with a cypress tree and building beyond, pale sky above.

View from Behind the Colonnade, Piazza San Pietro, Rome

John Brown, 1772

Watercolor and ink drawing of a heavenly city above a path of figures, with a devil and skeletal Death figure at lower right.

Representation of the Different Ways Leading to Everlasting Life or Eternal Damnation

Gustav Sigismund Peters, 1840

Pencil sketch of ancient Egyptian ruins with fallen stone blocks, a large arch, and a carved head framed in the upper center.

Abydos, February 7, 1844, Turkey

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil and wash drawing of a thatched cottage with a brick chimney among trees, with a wooden gate in front.

Cottage among Trees

John Constable, 1795

Pencil and white highlight drawing of a large tree, a man fishing by a stream, and distant farm buildings and hills.

Landscape with Man Fishing, Conway, New Hampshire

David Johnson, 1851

Pencil sketch of a bearded standing man in a patterned kilt beside a seated sphinx-like figure, with handwritten labels.

From Tombs/Hebrew/No. 8/A King

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown wash drawing of a leaning tree and a reclining figure in a wooded landscape under clouds.

Narcissus looks at himself in the spring

Nicolas Poussin

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a top hat on a slope, with a dog on a distant rise under an open sky.

Hampstead Heath

John Constable, 1820

Pastel study of a woman in white and a bearded man in purple walking a pale path through a hazy landscape.

Study for Flight to Egypt

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Pencil sketch of a palm tree with a standing robed figure at left and two seated figures and a jar at right.

Bedouins

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pen and ink drawing of the Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and children before architecture and a distant landscape.

The Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and the boy John in a landscape

Nicolas Poussin

Grey wash sketch sheet with several studies of shrubs, foliage, rocks and a small pond edge.

Various small studies of foliage

Martinus Rørbye

Brown wash drawing of a forest scene with three horses and a rider crossing a wooden bridge beneath large trees.

Forest scene with a bridge, over which three horses and a rider are going

Johann Christoph Erhard

Pencil sketch of four sailing ships with rigging at anchor on calm water, with a distant shoreline and handwritten ship names

Four East Indiamen at Archor

John Constable, 1803

Loose oil sketch of green rolling fields, a winding path and tall trees under a pale sky.

Northern Studies (By a River)

Jan Ciągliński, 1910

Pencil sketch of a winged figure with a hook above a reclining nude on clouds, with a second figure at lower left.

The Love Reaper

Sepia landscape of a river with a ruined castle, a rowing boat, a stone house and stormy clouds overhead.

Untitled - Louisa Ferguson Weir, 1800

Louisa Ferguson Weir, 1800

Ink line drawing of a standing female acrobat in a ruffled leotard with floral details and crosshatched fishnet sleeve.

Female Acrobat

Walt Kuhn, 1940

Charcoal drawing of a seated nude figure seen from behind, with loose shading and a dark background.

Leisure

Ink sketch of a kneeling penitent with a scourge seen from behind, with a raven sketched in the upper right corner.

Flagellating penitent with a raven

Arnold Böcklin, 1857

Pencil sketch of a rolling rural landscape with trees, a winding path, and a faint distant horizon under an empty sky.

Dedham Vale from Langham

John Constable, 1803

Pencil sketch of a distant skyline and coastline above water, labeled 'Alexandria, first sight' and 'Aboukir Bay'.

Alexandria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil drawing of a church spire over trees with sailboat and rowboats on a calm river.

Fulham Church from across the River

John Constable, 1818

Pencil sketch of a town with a minaret, stone arched bridge, trees and a lone walking figure in the foreground.

Eshi Shehr, Ancient Darylaum

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman with a bundle walking past a wooden gate and slide in a sunlit field.

The Gate Slide

Walter Shirlaw, 1830

Antique head in profile to the right

Pencil sketch of a large tree, wooden gate and distant cottage in a wooded landscape.

Coombe Wood

John Constable, 1812