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Drawings & Sketches

76,603 works

Pencil sketch of a family group gathered in an interior, with a seated man, overlapping heads, a bowl of fruit and a lamp.

Sketch for a Family Group

Sketch of an ornate vase with looped handles on a worn sketchbook cover, with the handwritten word VASES below.

Sketchbook of Vase and Decoration Studies

Worn cream paper sketchbook cover with pencil inscriptions and a column of handwritten figures below.

Sketchbook of Figure and Composition Studies

Pen drawing of a woman raising a dagger beside a reclining dead man on a draped couch, with trees and landscape behind.

Panthea Stabs Herself beside the Corpse of Abradatas

Pencil and ink sketch of a seaside scene with cliffs, a flagpole, a stone building, carts and groups of people on the shore.

Scene at Margate

Pen and grey wash sketch of riders, a rearing horse and a stag in a hunting scene with fallen figure below.

Study for "Alexander III, King of Scotland, Saved from a Stag by Colin Fitzgerald"

Ink and grey wash sketch of a reclining nude figure with seated figures and draped cloth in a dark setting.

The Finding of the Body of Clytemnestra

Arthur Middleton

Arthur Middleton (NYPL b12392788-420271)

Benjamin West, 1808

Pencil drawing of cows and a herder with sheep on a muddy path beside water, under a cloudy sky.

Cows in a Landscape

Eugène Verboeckhoven

Pencil and chalk drawing of sheep and a lamb in a field with a leaning wooden fence, a hen, and a bird.

Sheep in a Landscape

Eugène Verboeckhoven

Sepia photo reproduction of sheep and horses leaping a barrier in a rocky landscape, with a shepherd and dog, beside a catalo

Fotoreproductie van Troupeau sautant une barrière door Eugène Verboeckhoven, RP-F-2001-7-1721-16

Eugène Verboeckhoven, 1888

Pen and wash drawing of piled armor, banner, spears, books and a chained figure among flowers and smoke.

Illustration for the House of York

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Watercolor drawing of a classical tomb with inscribed tablet and ornate iron railing set in an open grassy landscape.

Tomb of Philip James de Loutherbourg, from Chiswick Churchyard

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Pen and ink drawing of an older man's head and collar, with a faint pencil sketch of another head above.

Drawing Study of a Man

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1764

Engraved landscape of a wooden bridge and small chapel above a waterfall, with travelers on a rocky path and mountains behind

An Old Bridge with a Chapel

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Engraved landscape of a ruined castle on a rocky hill above a river, with a herdsman, dog and cattle on the far bank.

Castle Ruins on a River

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Ink and wash drawing of stacked books, pages and a quill pen with foliage below, by Philip James de Loutherbourg.

Vignette by Loutherbourg for the Macklin Bible 127 of 134. Bowyer Bible New Testament. Headpiece to 2 John. Drawing d…

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Engraving of Captain Cook carried to the clouds by allegorical figures, with a volcano and sailing ships below.

Apotheosis of Captain Cook

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1794

Loose ink and watercolor sketch of a leaping deer among stylized flowers, with blue, ochre and red washes on beige paper.

Deer Leaping among Flowers

Sketch of a crowd of 18th-century men and women gathered around an easel, with a seated man pointing at the canvas.

Louis-Léopold Boilly - The Meeting of Artists (sketch)

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1798

Pencil and white chalk study of hands and an arm in a sleeve resting on a plate, on grey paper.

Studies of Hands

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Black chalk drawing with white highlights of a helmeted bust in a niche above a plinth with a winged relief.

Minerva (Study after a Sculpture)

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Drawing of a young woman in a white dress with curled hair, sketching on a pad at a table.

Portrait of a Young Woman Drawing Herself

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Grey wash drawing of a crowd in top hats and bonnets watching a performance in a wooden booth with cats, dogs nearby.

Louis-Léopold Boilly - The Poor Cat (sketch)

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Pen and watercolour street scene of fashionable figures, children and a dog outside a shop front, drawn in 1803.

Louis-Léopold Boilly - The Little Chapel

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1803

Pen and watercolor street scene of pedestrians with umbrellas, a man in a top hat with a greyhound, and a woman and child by

Louis-Léopold Boilly - Urban Toll

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1803

Hand-coloured caricature drawing of five elderly men in powdered wigs crowded together in an animated medical consultation.

Consultation des Médécins

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Sepia drawing of a draped woman bending over a reclining nude man, with a dog resting at his feet.

Diana and Endymion

Watercolor of a calm blue sea under a pale sky with soft orange and lavender clouds near a distant shore.

Frank Short - Sea and sky at Seaford

Etching of a huge ship hull beside tugboats and sailing ships in a pale harbor, with a submerged wreck in the foreground.

Breaking Up of the Great Eastern, No 2

Frank Short, 1890

Etching of a large stranded ship hulk in shallow water with wooden pilings in the foreground and a pale sky.

Breaking Up of the Great Eastern, No 1

Frank Short, 1890