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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Pencil sketch of a figure in a headscarf and long dress beside a stove and kettle on aged paper.

Skeleton that wants to warm itself

Grey wash drawing of a large tree and smaller trees in a meadow beneath a pale blue sky with clouds.

Trees in a Meadow

John Constable, 1805

Pencil study of a right hand resting on a curved base, shaded in graphite, drawn as a sculptural academic study.

Sculpture of a right child's hand

Pen and grey wash drawing of a bearded seated man beneath trees with dogs and a rough shelter in a wooded landscape.

The Prodigal Son

after Pietro Testa, 18th century

Pencil sketch of a rural landscape with a walking figure, trees, and a church spire on distant hills.

View near Arundel

John Constable, 1834

Watercolor sketch of a caricatured man in a brown cape and plaid breeches, holding a large dark hat.

Man with a Large Hat

Paul Gavarni, 1819-66

Two figures and ornament

Head of a Young Lady

Antonin Mercié, 1910

Pencil drawing of a forearm with a hand gripping, fingers lightly outlined on cream paper.

Gripping or picking up forearm

Karl Sandhaas, 1818

Pen and wash drawing of a frontispiece cartouche with a winged cupid writing, an old man pointing, and an open book.

Design for a Frontispiece: Cupid Studying Nature

Loose oil study of a crowd dancing at a folk festival in red, pink and brown clothing before wooden houses.

Study of a folk festival

Jozef Teodor Mousson, 1925

Study of a Boy

Władysław Ślewiński, 1902

Green-washed drawing of nine figures crowded around a central nude body, with raised arms and faint arches behind.

Nine Figures

after Giuseppe Nicolo Vicentino

Pen and ink sketch of a wooded headland above a river, with a commemorative medal reproduced in the lower right.

Stony Point

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil sketch of a seated young woman with dark hair in a bun, eyes lowered, hands resting in loose drapery.

Study of a Young Woman

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Pencil drawing of two child's hands on a pale sheet, one showing the back and one the inner palm.

Left the back, right the inner surface of the open right hand of a child

Chalk drawing on blue paper of Neptune in a chariot drawn by sea horses, with tritons, a sea nymph and cherubs.

The Triumph of Neptune

Unknown artist, 18th century

Copies of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of caricatured faces around a horned devil, with a medallion portrait held above.

Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1776

Pencil sketch of robed women and men gathered at night, with a handwritten caption reading Athene girls at Thebes, moonlight.

...Girls at Thebes--Moonlight

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil drawing of three panoramic views of distant mountains and coastline above a sea horizon, labeled Entering Rhodes.

Rhodes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a bird of prey perched on rock, head bent downward, with detailed feathers and a clawed foot.

Chinoiserie, a bird of prey

Pen and ink drawing of a robed preacher addressing a crowd beneath hovering angels, with head studies at right.

Saint Paul Preaching to the Britons

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1775

Red chalk drawing of the Madonna and Child with infant John and an older bearded figure at upper right.

Madonna and Child with Saints John and Joseph [recto]

Unknown artist, 17th century

Pen and wash sketch of two men fighting with swords while a woman sits nearby at the left.

Two Men Fighting Before a Woman

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1771

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of robed figures gathered before classical arches, kneeling men in foreground, distant to

Joseph and His Brother in Egypt [verso]

Unknown artist, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd in 18th-century dress processing toward a Gothic church with clergy and musicians.

A Procession Entering a Church

Hubert François Gravelot, 1700s

Pencil sketch of slender tree trunks along a path, with loosely hatched foliage above, on pale paper.

Trees

Loose oil study of gold damask fabric folded over a bed, with a pale cloth in the lower right against a brown background.

Fragment of the Cover of Quinn's Bed. Study to the Painting

Pencil study of a bare foot and ankle with toes, drawn in light contour lines on cream paper.

Foot

Pencil drawing of a long vaulted stone arcade receding to a bright doorway at the far end.

Entrance to Tasso's Prison, Ferrara

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Embroidered silk sampler of two flying yellowhammer birds linked by a twig, with handwritten verse and a ribbon border.

Yellow Hammer's

n.d E. M. Donough, 1810