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Drawings & Sketches

75,482 works

Hand-colored drawing of a militiaman in white uniform and cap leaning on a rifle beside a cannon and cannonballs.

Alfred Diston, Militiaman of Grand Canary (1829)

Alfred Diston, 1829

Hand-coloured drawing of a man carrying a pole hung with black top hats, with mountains and a cactus behind him.

Alfred Diston, Hat Seller of Grand Canary (1829)

Alfred Diston, 1829

Hand-colored illustration of three men in traditional costume with caps and headcloths, standing before arid mountains.

Alfred Diston, Natives of Fuerteventura (1829)

Alfred Diston, 1829

Two women in white shawls and black skirts stand by a doorway, one in a tall black hat, the other with face hidden.

Alfred Diston. Tapadas, or Walking Dress-Canaries

Alfred Diston, 1829

Hand-coloured drawing of a man in a dark hooded coat with red trim and red cap, holding a staff, before mountains and a camel

Alfred Diston. Winter Dress of A Native of Lanzarote

Alfred Diston, 1829

Watercolour portrait of a middle-aged man with side whiskers and a black cravat, wearing a dark coat and light waistcoat.

Elizabeth Heaphy Murray, Alfred Diston

Alfred Diston, 1854

Charcoal sketch of a young woman in a dark hat with a neck ribbon, looking to the side.

Head of a Young Woman Wearing a Hat

Anders Zorn, n.d.

Dürer - Studies of a Seated Woman and a Man's Head, MB 1955T 2 recto (PK)

Albrecht Dürer

Seated bearded man in white turban and blue robe on a carpeted platform in an arched Cairo market interior.

In the Bezestein, El Khan Khalil, Cairo

John Frederick Lewis, 1860

Watercolor of robed monks at a doorway as a family and kneeling child approach them for alms.

J F Lewis Alms 1833

John Frederick Lewis, 1833

Two women in an ornate interior with a reclining figure, a sleeping cat, peacock feathers and a patterned wall.

John Frederick Lewis - Hhareem Life, Constantinople

John Frederick Lewis, 1857

Sketch of a hunting party with horses, hounds and a fallen deer in a wooded parkland, by John Frederick Lewis.

Sketch for ‘Buck-Shooting in Windsor Great Park’

John Frederick Lewis, 1825

Watercolour of a seated man in a red hunting coat with two dogs in a richly furnished room beside a fireplace.

JohnCrockerBulteel ByJohnFrederickLewis

John Frederick Lewis

Watercolor of a crowded Cairo bazaar with arched colonnades, seated merchants in turbans, and sunlight through a timber roof.

The Bezestein Bazaar of El Khan Khalil, Cairo by John Frederick Lewis

John Frederick Lewis, 1872

Grey wash view of a harbor city with church spires and moored masted ships, framed by trees in the foreground.

New York City and Harbor from Weehawken

Pavel Petrovich Svinin, 1811-ca. 1813

Pencil sketch of Lake Como with tall cypress trees on a shore and mountains across the water, on an open sketchbook page.

Lake Como, May 3, 1869 (recto, from Sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee, 1869

Woman Sketching; Two Women Reading; Portrait of a Man (after Van Dyke?); Half-length Female Portrait; Two Equestrian…

Thomas Sully, 1810-20

Watercolor of New York harbor with ships, a flagged Marine Hospital on a hill, and a foreground path with figures and a dog.

View of the City of New York and the Marine Hospital Taken from Wallabout

Study for "Hob Taken Out of Ye Well," etched vignette in "Songs in the Opera of Flora"

Study for "Hob Taken Out of Ye Well," etched vignette in "Songs in the Opera of Flora"

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1737

3 sketchbooks of 82 drawings by Anne Rushout (B1977.14.9506-9587)

3 sketchbooks of 82 drawings by Anne Rushout (B1977.14.9506-9587)

Etude de mains, PPD548

Etude de mains, PPD548

Nasreddine Dinet

Rue de Venise, 1887

Rue de Venise, 1887

Henry Eugène Nocq

La rue Croulebarbe et la Bièvre

La rue Croulebarbe et la Bièvre

Eugène de Ménorval, 1894

Vestibule du Palais-Royal en 1786

Vestibule du Palais-Royal en 1786

Jean Baptiste Maréchal, 1786

Vue d'une masure aux Buttes-Chaumont

Vue d'une masure aux Buttes-Chaumont

Auguste Péquégnot

[sans titre] Paysage marin avec rocher

[sans titre] Paysage marin avec rocher

Victor Hugo, 1865