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Drawings & Sketches

75,768 works

Oil sketch of a dense Jamaican hillside with tropical trees, ferns, and yellow flowering shrubs in green and brown tones.

Hillside with Trees, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a raised two-storey wooden house with a balcony and sloping roof, beside a colonnaded structure.

A Street Corner in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sketch of a full moon over snowy hills at twilight, with pink rays across a pale sky and blue horizon.

Full Moon over a Winter Landscape at Twilight, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of domed buildings and a tall pine tree in misty Rome, with handwritten colour notes in the margins.

View of Rome from the Palazzo Braschi, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted woodland stream with rocky banks, dense shrubs and grass in the foreground under a hazy olive sky.

Woodland Stream, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Sketch of a sunset over a valley with a winding river, green hills, distant mountains, and pink and orange clouds.

Sunset in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Oil sketch of a tropical river valley at sunset with palm trees, cliffs, a winding river and small figures.

Imaginary South American Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in an armchair holding an open book, looking up, dated 1893.

Luise Scholderer, von der Lektüre aufblickend

Otto Scholderer, 1893

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in draped garments, facing left, with partial studies at the page edge.

Stehende Frau nach links

Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a long dress holding a cat, beside an armchair in an interior.

Luise Scholderer sitzend mit Katze

Otto Scholderer

Pencil sketch of a seated woman's legs, dress and shoe, with a hand holding a mandolin neck at the top.

Sitzende junge Frau, Mandoline spielend, Detail der Beine und Schuhe

Otto Scholderer, 1879

Drawing of a bearded old man with a key and book, one hand on his chest, gazing upward in a draped cloak.

Der Heilige Petrus, die linke Hand auf einem Buche und den Schlüssel haltend, die rechte auf der Brust

Cornelis Visscher

Plate VIII: eleven hand painted moth specimens numbered 1 to 11 on a cream mount, in varied colours and patterns.

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate VIII]

George Hudson, 1946

Pencil sketch of a villa on a wooded hillside with a large tree trunk in the foreground.

Villa Chigi in Ariccia

Ernst Fries, 1824

Hand painted entomology plate with numbered butterflies, caterpillars and chrysalides in watercolour, labeled VIII.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate VIII]

George Hudson, 1886

Watercolor of a tree-lined forest path with a horseback rider, strollers in period dress, and a white building in the distanc

Spaziergänger und Reiter im Haager Wald

Pencil sketch across three sheets of a lake with mountains, steep cliffs on the right, and small rafts on the water.

Lake Wanaka looking towards the head (with timber rafts)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Karl Gjellerup

P.S. Krøyer, 1897

Profile portrait of Marie Krøyer

P.S. Krøyer, 1903

Sophus Schandorph in silhouette

P.S. Krøyer, 1896

Dim interior with four men in dark suits seated and standing around a lit table lamp beneath a chandelier.

Study for “My friends”

Holger Drachmann in silhouette

P.S. Krøyer, 1896

Pencil sketch of fishermen and a woman with a child seated on a boat deck, with masts and a vessel behind them.

Fishermen by 'Stokken' in Hornbæk

Study of a standing bearded man

P.S. Krøyer, 1877

Pencil sketch of two men in caps, one striking an anvil with a hammer, drawn in loose graphite lines.

Sketch from “Fra Smedien i Hornbæk”

Watercolor of figures and a horse on a beach beside sailing boats, with a dark storm cloud over dunes on the left.

Figures on a Beach, Northern France

Thomas Shotter Boys

Examples of the Architecture of Venice

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1914

Watercolor of a village green with a cricket match, strolling figures, white cottages and trees under a cloudy sky.

Continental village green and cricket match - Thomas Shotter Boys (attributed to) - 9048-2048x1523

Thomas Shotter Boys

Watercolor of a Gothic town hall facade with a tower and pedestrians in a cobbled square.

Thomas Shotter Boys Old town hall Saint-Omer

Thomas Shotter Boys

Watercolor of Paris riverside with a domed classical building, a stone arch bridge over the Seine, and strolling figures.

View of L'Institut de France and the Pont des Arts, Paris by Thomas Shotter Boys

Thomas Shotter Boys

Hand-colored view of the Hôtel de Cluny courtyard in Paris with a Gothic turret, striped awning, and people in the yard.

Hôtel de Cluny, Paris

Thomas Shotter Boys

Hand-colored lithograph of the Gothic Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, with scaffolding and stacked stone blocks in the street.

La Ste. Chapelle, Paris

Thomas Shotter Boys