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Drawings & Sketches

76,622 works

Ink and wash drawing of a ceremonial procession under a canopy with a mitred figure, crowds, and onlookers in an arched frame

The Entry of Saint Antoninus into Florence

Attributed to Giovanni Balducci

Mother of Ensor - foot and hands

James Ensor, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of a bearded figure on a cloud addressing a kneeling man beside standing women and architecture.

God the Father appears to Noah

Nicolas Poussin

Watercolor of two white oxen with floral head ornaments pulling an ornate gilded cart with a red canopy.

A Turkish Araba Drawn by Two White Oxen, ConstantinopleТурецкая араба, запряженная двумя белыми волами, Константинополь

John Frederick Lewis, 1841

Pencil sketch of a robed man with bowed head and clasped hands in prayer, drawn in loose hatched strokes on paper.

Robed figure, praying: study for The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a carved stone archway with decorative moldings and smaller arched openings, inscribed St. John's chapel Jer

Gate Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen drawing of a bespectacled man with a pipe leaning over a table to read, with a bottle and window beside him.

Man with pipe, sitting reading at a table

Pen and ink caricature of a choir with exaggerated faces at a music stand and a row of wigged onlookers below.

Choir and Orchestra (A Choral Band)

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1776

Pen and ink drawing of the Old North Church steeple above a cobblestone street with pedestrians and brick buildings.

Boston--North Church

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1940

Watercolor of a tuxedoed male dancer leaping before a group of red-dressed chorus dancers within an oval frame.

In Vaudeville (Dancer with Chorus)

Charles Demuth, 1918

Pencil drawing of a young peasant man in a tall hat with feather, seated at a table with a glass beside him.

Young peasant with pipe, sitting at a table

Pen and ink drawing of a man on a draped deathbed surrounded by mourners in classical dress, with a shield and spear behind.

Roman matron at the deathbed of her husband

Nicolas Poussin

Pen and ink drawing of a man kneeling with bowed head and arms outstretched, wearing a draped robe and sandals.

A Man Kneeling

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1770

Stippled pen drawing of a dining room with two women and a seated older man at a table beside a potted plant.

The Dining Room

Paul Signac, 1886

Pencil landscape drawing of a windswept pine in a valley with rocky cliffs, rolling hills, and distant mountain peaks.

Untitled - Henry Arthur Elkins

Henry Arthur Elkins

Pencil sketch of a dragon rising above armored figures and a spear-holding soldier, with horsemen sketched above.

Chinoiserie, scene

James Ensor, 1884

Brown ink drawing of a man with curly hair and a high-collared shirt, with handwritten inscriptions above and below.

Portrait of John Saxby

John Hamilton Mortimer

Sketch of a man in a green fur-trimmed robe on a rooftop among astronomical instruments, gazing up at the night sky.

Nicolaus Copernicus. Sketch to the Painting

Jan Matejko, 1871

Pencil sketch of a seated woman with bowed head and crossed arms, before a draped interior wall.

Greek Slave

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1850

Pencil sketch of the Yellowstone Range with layered mountain ridges and peaks, inscribed with the title and date at top.

The Yellowstone Range from Dead Indian Hill

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pen and watercolor drawing of a dirt road lined with tall trees, leading toward open fields and a distant fence under a blue

Trees lining a road leading to fields

Johan Rohde, 1893

Brown wash drawing of a vaulted wine cellar with barrels, workers, a ladder, and classical statues in wall niches.

Wine cellar in a niche hall with four statues of ancient deities

Hubert Robert, 1769

Studies of Academics

John Hamilton Mortimer

Watercolor of a man in a shirt and red tie riding a red bicycle before trees, set within a large yellow circle.

In Vaudeville, the Bicycle Rider

Charles Demuth, 1919

American Ox

Constant Troyon, 1800

Watercolor frieze of dancing figures with garlands, panpipes and a lyre in a garden procession, by Louis Schaettle, 1910.

(Bacchanale Revel, Pan and Procession)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Pencil sketch of a bearded elderly man in a white turban and robes, head bowed, with handwritten inscription below.

Sheik Mansour of Harchad

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor drawing of a tall pyramid with a broken top among ruins, trees, and small seated and standing figures.

Pyramid with broken tip in an ancient ruin landscape

Two Heads in a Roundel

John Hamilton Mortimer

Watercolor and pencil drawing of angular rooftops, a red chimney, tall trees, and a sailboat on water at left.

Rooftops and Trees

Charles Demuth, 1918

Watercolor sketch of a wheelbarrow above a sprig of wild thyme with pink flowers and handwritten notes.

St. Valery-Blow-Wild Thyme

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Studies of Groups of Heads

John Hamilton Mortimer