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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Pencil sketch of a village with a church steeple and wooded hills behind, with figures and a horse cart in the foreground.

Zell near the Harmersbach

Nude child kneeling and gazing upward in a glowing gothic cathedral with tiled floors and a distant altar.

Child of the Ages

Da Loria Norman, 1910

Pencil sketch of a columned excavation interior at Beni Hassan with a domed chamber and a figure in a doorway.

Interior of Excavations at Beni Hassan, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a windmill with lattice sails beside a cottage and trees under a loosely drawn sky.

Landscape with Windmill

John Constable, 1825

Pencil sketch of badlands mesas and mountains under rising smoke, with handwritten color notes along the bottom edge.

Fire in the Bad Lands of Dakota

Thomas Moran, 1890

Brown ink and wash sketch of a sailing boat on water beside dark shoreline trees under a brightening sky, with birds.

Dawn

John Constable, 1831

Pencil sketch of a seated boy with lowered eyes, one hand on his knee, signed Smedt and dated 1950.

Boy with globe

Pencil sketch of a two-story hermitage with a bell niche and cross, a horse under an arch, and trees beside it.

Hermitage at Vesuvius

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor sketch of a pointed stone archway opening onto a shaded woodland path with tall trees.

East Bergholt Church, Looking Out the South Archway of the Ruined Tower

John Constable, 1806

Pen and watercolor drawing of a crowded auction room with an auctioneer on a rostrum and framed paintings covering the walls.

Christie's Auction Room, Pall Mall

Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1808-10

Pen and grey wash drawing of a woman working in a tiled kitchen, with an open door onto a leafy garden.

Kitchen interior with view of a garden (by Abraham van Strij)

Abraham van Strij, 1790

Chalk drawing of a spiky vine coiling around a cup, with white wind lines on grey paper.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Bitter Cup

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a beardless man in a broad cap and high collar, shown in bust length, looking forward.

Bust of a beardless man

Karl Sandhaas, 1817

Pencil sketch of an open landscape with a path, trees on the right, and dark hatched clouds above.

Dedham Vale from Langham

John Constable, 1830

Charcoal drawing of a workman in a straw hat climbing a ladder while carrying a large woven basket on his back.

Workman on a Ladder

Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, 1940

Pencil drawing of a young boy in a white robe standing with clasped hands against a shaded background.

Choir Boy

Belle Silveira, 1890

Pencil drawing on tan paper of two male portrait heads, one with tousled hair and moustache, the other wearing a tricorn hat.

Portraits of Messrs Dr. Böhmer from Frankfurt and Abate Tomaso di Ariccia

Karl Sandhaas, 1818

Pencil portrait of a man with shoulder-length hair, high collar and coat, drawn on pale yellowish paper.

Dr. Carl Witt from Berlin

Karl Sandhaas, 1817

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded Vienna street with soldiers, a mounted rider and onlookers in front of large city buildings

Departure of Austrian Jägers for the Northern Army through Aspern Street in Vienna

Ladislaus Eugen Petrovits, 1866

Pencil and brown wash drawing of an uprooted tree with exposed roots and a small rider on horseback at right.

Helmingham: The Silent Pool

John Constable, 1800

Pencil sketch of hills, palm trees, and sailboats on a river, with handwritten inscription in lower right corner.

Biro Mountains

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor of a sandy beach with beached sailing boats, walking figures, and a row of seafront buildings under a cloudy sky.

Brighton Beach Looking West

Seated woman in blue drapes with a tragedy mask, laurel wreath and trumpet beside her, framed by an arched gilded border.

Muse of Tragedy

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Graphite sketch of flowers in a faceted pitcher with handwritten plant notes along the bottom edge.

Flowers in a Pitcher

Watercolor drawing of two dead snipes lying on a pale ground, one with its long bill extended and wings partly spread.

Two dead snipes

Martinus Rørbye, 1840-1844

Ink sketch of an ornate helmet with a curved crest and decorative borders, with handwritten notes on the paper.

Protesilas helmet design for the play

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1903

Pencil drawing of a canal with gabled houses, a footbridge, moored boats and figures on the quay.

View of the Zoutkeetsgracht

Willem Antonie van Deventer, 1854

Grey wash drawing of a timber plantation house with shingled roof, boats on the bank, and a thatched hut beside palm trees.

View of the mill and the boiling house of sugar plantation Waterland

Dirk Valkenburg, 1708

Pencil sketch of an ornate balcony, keys, chimney details and two veiled women, with handwritten 'Malta 19th Dec. 43'.

Malta

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Bust of the painter Adam Eberle from Düsseldorf

Karl Sandhaas, 1817

Grey wash drawing of a wooden plantation house and a thatched barn with numbered labels, by Dirk Valkenburg, 1708.

Residence and a Barn on the Surimombo Plantation

Dirk Valkenburg, 1708

Grey wash drawing of three thatched plantation buildings with grazing cattle and a horse on sandy ground.

View of three houses on the Surimombo plantation

Dirk Valkenburg, 1708