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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Grey ink drawing of a plantation yard with a wooden shed, stacked logs, trestles and trees under a cloudy sky.

View of the Surimombo plantation

Dirk Valkenburg, 1708

Pen and wash drawing of a wooden sluice with a timber frame, crossed arms and chains over a channel, 1708.

Sluice on the Palmeneribo Plantation

Dirk Valkenburg, 1708

Watercolor of a canal with a bridge, rowing boat, tree-lined quay, gabled houses and pedestrians under a cloudy sky.

View of the Eilandsgracht

Hendrik de Winter, 1745

Brown and white chalk drawing of allegorical figures with an owl, a pillar, and a handwritten Rubaiyat verse panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Divorce of Reason

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of a canal with gabled houses, a raised drawbridge, moored boats and a sailing vessel under cloudy sky.

View of the Brouwersgracht

Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller, 1865

Brown wash drawing of a valley with a stream, dark trees and mountain slopes under a pale evening sky.

Borrowdale: Evening after a Fine Day, 1 October 1806

John Constable, 1806

Pen and wash drawing of a busy market square with a tavern, pedestrians, a horse cart and gabled houses.

View of the spring market on the Haarlemmerplein

A. Goedkoop, 1850

Portrait of Gesina ter Borch

Moses ter Borch, 1660

Drawing in chalk on blue-grey paper of a young woman in a red shawl working at a spinning wheel beside a wooden chair.

Girl at a spinning wheel

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1840

Drawing of a standing boy in a smock and cap holding a long stick, rendered in chalk on blue-grey paper.

Standing boy with stick

Marinus Jacobus Stucki, 1819

Chalk drawing of a canal with a raised drawbridge, moored boats, gabled houses and a cloudy sky.

View of the Prinseneilandsgracht

Anthonie van Teijn, 1926

Drawing of dancing draped women holding a garland of stars above a verse block, bordered by ivy and clouds with haloed heads.

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

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil and wash drawing of several nude male figures tangled together in a vertical struggle, with an inscription below.

But Deliver Us From Evil

John Flaxman Jr., 1805

Portrait of Dr. Böhmer from Frankfurt

Karl Sandhaas, 1817

Pastel drawing of a moonlit marsh at night with reeds, reflective water, a glowing moon and a small wooden structure.

Marshes in New Jersey

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1890

Pen and ink drawing of Independence Hall in Philadelphia with its clock tower, flagpole, trees and street scene.

Philadelphia, Independence Hall, Chestnut Street

Ernest C. Peixotto

Pen and ink sketch of a standing young man reading a paper beside a seated man reading a book at a desk.

In class

Aleksander Gierymski, 1866

Loose impressionist painting of a sunlit open-air market with women in colorful dresses beside wooden stall tables.

Study from the market

Jozef Teodor Mousson, 1915

Pen and ink sketch of a standing man in a plumed hat and long cloak, turned toward a smaller seated figure.

Study of a Gentleman, called Dr. Johnson

John Flaxman Jr.

Sepia wash drawing of a wooden bridge over a calm river with two rowboats on the bank and trees along the far shore.

Washington Crossing

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil sketch of two men, one facing forward and one in a top hat looking down, on aged paper.

The engraver Carl Barth and the architect Johannes Buck from Hildburghausen

Karl Sandhaas, 1817

Grey wash drawing of a bound nude figure on the left and a seated couple with onlookers on the right.

Illustration to Milton's Paradise Lost: Adam and Eve Guarded by the Angels

John Flaxman Jr.

Pen and watercolor sketch of a brown horse pulling a loaded wooden freight wagon with a blue canvas cover.

Italian freight wagon

Peter Hansen, 1899

Portraits of the painter Prof. Besel from Breslau and the architect Hübsch from Heidelberg

Karl Sandhaas, 1817

King from Tomb No. 6, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John, seated near a palm tree in a landscape.

Holy Family with Infant Saint John

Luca Cambiaso, c. 1562/1563

Sepia drawing of a clergyman gesturing to children beside an open Holy Bible, with a guardian angel and a standing woman.

Study for a Monument to the Reverend John Clowes

John Flaxman Jr., 1820

Pencil sketch of a walled fortress and arched stone bridge by calm water, with a sailboat at right.

Sidon

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and ink sketch of palm trees framing an oasis with dunes, a camel rider, and two figures by water.

Palms

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

An actor from Freiburg

Brown wash drawing of a rearing horse, armored soldiers and fallen figures beneath a cloudy sky with a distant city.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

after Lodovico Carracci, 17th century

Pencil sketch of a mounted rider on a horse moving through a crowd beneath arches and banners, on tan paper.

Sketch for the painting "Wyjazd Bolesława Chrobrego do Kijowa" - Bolesław Chrobry on horseback; a number of people

Jan Matejko, 1884