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Drawings & Sketches

76,731 works

Pen and brown ink sketch of a steam tugboat pushing a barge on a river, with trees and a domed building on the shore.

Tugboat Pushing Barge on River

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1868

Ink drawing of a Trenton street with carriages, tram tracks, brick storefronts, telegraph poles, and a distant monument colum

Trenton, Old King Street Looking from Hessian Headquarters

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Loose sketch of a New York river dock with cranes, barges, and blue-green water on brown paper.

North River Dock, New York

Childe Hassam, 1901

Pen drawing of a crowned skeleton riding a pale horse over fallen figures, with winged creatures above.

Death on a Pale Horse

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1775

Pen and grey wash drawing of tulips and carnations bound with a ribbon, with French varietal labels, 1700.

Flowers tied together with a ribbon

J. Porteret, 1700

Pencil drawing of eight studies of low plants with large ruffled leaves on a pale sheet, signed by Legillon.

Eight studies of low plants with large leaves

Jan Frans Legillon, 1761

Pastel sketch of a fisherman in cap and blue overalls standing beside a wooden mast and boat on a green-toned ground.

Fisherman, Isle of Shoals

Childe Hassam, 1903

Brown ink and wash drawing of a martyrdom scene with an angel and cherubs above, figures below, and an arched top.

Martyrdom of Saint John

Gaspare Diziani

Graphite drawing of a reclining male nude draped over a cloth on rocky ground, with a sketched background.

An Academy

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1773

Pencil sketch of a harbor village with wooden houses, masted sailboats, two standing figures, and a rowboat in the water.

View of Provincetown

Henry Farrer, 1890

Pencil sketch of a woman in a headscarf with handwritten notes above and a caption below, on tan paper.

Copy of the portrait of Barbara von Brandenburg from a fresco by Andrea Mantegna

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Brown ink and wash sketch of two putti with fish tails, one twisting upward and one holding a raised cord, on tan paper.

Two putti with fish tails

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and brown wash sketch of several flying cherubs in dynamic poses, studied from different angles on one sheet.

Playing cherubs

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil drawing of a female charioteer driving three horses, with attendant women in classical dress beside the chariot.

The Morn, All Beauteous to Behold, from Aeschylus, The Persians

John Flaxman Jr.

Pencil sketch of a multi-sided pedestal topped with ornate scrolled forms, on pale paper.

(Star-shaped structure)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown and white wash drawing of a seated woman with a stone tablet and stylus, surrounded by radiating light and clouds.

(Untitled)

Victor Nehlig, 1830

Pencil sketches of a swirling monogram, a seated crowned figure, an ornamental banner and small letter studies on paper.

Sketches of monogram

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1901

Pen and grey wash sketch of two women near a man resting his arms on a counter.

Two Women Talking to a Man at a Counter

John Flaxman Jr.

Pencil sketch on lined paper of a seated figure with a smaller study of another seated figure in the upper left.

Stage figures

Graphite sketch on tan paper of a bird's wing with layered feathers shaded in soft tones and a dark shadow at right.

Study of a wing, for "Infancy of Galahad" in The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library

Edwin Austin Abbey

Ink drawing of an older man in a cap seated on a bench, working on a thick rope across his knees.

Boatman on the Ithaca Canal

Albert Leighton Rawson

Pencil sketch of church towers, a sailing boat and a rowboat on calm water with a distant town skyline.

Study (Adage)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Charcoal drawing of a coastal village with church spires beyond a ploughed field, under a dark, streaked sky.

Ballantrae

Muirhead Bone, c. 1907

A reclining male nude as well as the face of a boy in profile

Gaspare Diziani

Pen and ink drawing of classical figures: a seated woman with children, a standing woman holding a lyre, and a winged figure

To Phoebus at His Birth, From Aeschylus, Furies

John Flaxman Jr.

Watercolor study of allegorical figures with sailors, anchor and oar, framed by laurels and labeled NAVIGATION.

Navigation (study for panel, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Two pencil and watercolour studies of a woman in rural dress carrying woven baskets, one holding it and one on her head.

Two studies of a girl with a basket

Karol Ľudovít Libay

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a canal with moored boats, houses, a windmill and church spires in the background.

View of the Hugo de Grootbuurt

Albert Martin, 1837

Charcoal sketch of a woman with downcast eyes, with loose overlapping gestural lines and hands above, on aged paper.

Woman with downcast gaze

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a village street with a windmill, brick houses, sheds and lamp posts under cloudy sky.

View of a mill near timber yard of Uytenboogaard

Albert Martin, 1837

The Reverend Anthony Stephen Mathew

John Flaxman Jr.

Watercolor drawing of a canal with a footbridge, street lamp, red-roofed houses and a row of trees.

View of the Vinkenbuurtpad behind De Liefde cemetery

Albert Martin, 1837