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Drawings & Sketches

75,482 works

Pen and wash drawing of a river panorama with sailing boats, church towers, windmills and figures on a dike.

Gezicht over de Lek op Ameide, het Huis Herlaer en Tienhoven

Jan de Beijer, 1745

Watercolor of a river harbor with sailing ships, rowing boats, palm trees and palanquin bearers on a shaded path.

View of Calcutta from the Garden Reach, by Thomas Daniell

Pencil and wash drawing of a small temple, a leaning tree, and a winding path toward distant hills and a rock formation.

Thomas Daniell Temple near Bangalore (Mysore) with a distant view of Savandurg

Watercolor of a stone town wall, a Gothic church with pointed roofs, a tall tower, and riverside houses under hazy sky.

Ancient Cathedral and Tower of Harold, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil drawing of a marsh landscape with trees on a rise at left, reeds in the foreground, and a distant shoreline under a sh

Landscape with Marsh

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Ink outline drawing with pink wash of two reclining nude women, with a small pencil figure study at lower right.

Two Reclining Female Nudes

Pencil sketch of eroded badlands cliffs and a pointed rock formation above water, labeled Bad lands of the Yellowstone.

Bad Lands of the Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1890

Small sketch of a hazy sunset, with a glowing sun behind pink clouds above dark silhouetted trees.

Hazy Sunset

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a mountain landscape at sunset with hills and a distant peak, annotated with handwritten color notes.

Chimborazo at Sunset, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a hazy landscape with rolling hills, evergreen trees at right, and handwritten color notes across the sky.

Looking Southwest from Long Hill, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a distant landscape with mountains and handwritten color notes, dated February 25, 1890.

Landscape in Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Oil sketch of waves breaking on a sand beach below a wooded rocky headland under a pale pink sky.

Great Head from Sand Beach, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of St. Peter's Basilica dome with columns, smaller dome at left, handwritten notes, on pale paper.

Domes of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch on blue-gray paper of a distant shoreline and hills, with handwritten color notes above.

Sunset over Distant Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Soft-toned landscape of a calm lake, sandy shore with driftwood, forested edge, and a pale mountain under a hazy sky.

Mt. Katahdin from Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Painted textile design with two floral panels in pink, blue and yellow and a striped and dotted border strip on the right.

Design for a Textile

Louis-Albert DuBois, 1810

Pencil sketch sheet of sailing boats, a crowded open boat, and standing figures, with handwritten notes.

Boat Sketches

Pencil sketch of a sailing boat with a large raised sail on calm water, drawn in light graphite lines on cream paper.

Boat Sketch

Oil sketch of a snow-capped mountain range over a plain with a winding road and poplar trees near Baalbek.

Mountains near Baalbek, Syria (Lebanon)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a sunset sky over distant hills, with handwritten colour notes such as smoky gold and red along the sheet.

Sunset over a Mountainous Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a steep Yellowstone canyon wall with jagged rock formations and pine trees, with handwritten caption.

West Wall of the Canyon, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a distant landscape with a tower and buildings, handwritten colour notes on tan paper.

Sketches from Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a cliff reflected in a calm lake with distant hills and a small canoe at the bottom.

Shore of the Königssee and a Canoe, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of rugged brown mountains behind a band of green shrubs under a cloudy sky.

Rugged Mountain Range, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Charcoal sketch of two men paddling a canoe across water with reeds and trees along the shore.

Side View of Canoe with Two Men

Winslow Homer, 1890

Sunset over a river with a glowing orange reflection, low hills and distant mountains, and trees on a dark foreground shore.

View Across the Hudson River at Sunset, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1900

Pencil sketch of alpine mountains and rocky cliffs with handwritten notes near Salzburg, on cream paper.

Alpine Landscape near Salzburg, Austria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Small painted study of an orange and red twilight sky above dark silhouetted rooftops, a steeple, and a dome.

Hudson, New York, at Twilight

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a sunset over a river, with a wooded shore, distant hills and a brown sky with white clouds.

Sunset in the Hudson Valley, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Sepia drawing of a river reflecting eroded rock spires and cliffs, with trees along the banks under a pale sky.

Yellowstone Below the Falls

Thomas Moran, 1870

Pencil sketch of a columned classical temple with hatched shading and handwritten notes on cream paper.

The Parthenon Lighted at Night, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of an arcaded colonial building with balconies and a tiled roof, with handwritten colour notes, Guayaquil.

Street View in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850