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Drawings & Sketches

78,344 works

Pencil drapery study of a headless figure in a patterned gown with folds of cloth, drawn over a grid.

Drapery study for figure of Botany

Kenyon Cox, 1896

Pencil study of a standing nude woman with bowed head and draped cloth, with faint sketched figure behind, on yellowed paper.

Study for figures of Sculpture and Painting

Kenyon Cox, 1896

Pencil drapery study of a seated, hooded female figure with arms folded, drawn over a faint grid on tan paper.

Drapery study for figure of Physics

Kenyon Cox, 1896

Pencil study of a nude winged child holding a telescope to his eye, with faint grid lines on the paper.

Genius with telescope

Kenyon Cox, 1896

Graphite nude study of a standing woman with a grid behind her, labeled as a study for the figure of Botany.

Nude study for figure of Botany

Kenyon Cox, 1896

Pencil sketch of a seated nude woman seen from behind, one arm extended to the right, with faint studies of limbs.

Zoology LCCN2004662301

Kenyon Cox, 1896

Pencil study of a shaded icosahedron with circles in squares, a tilted slab, a vase outline and grid lines on cream paper.

Shapes and forms

Kenyon Cox, 1896

Watercolor elevation of a hallway with a wrought-iron staircase, framed mirror, armchair, and console table.

Design for a Hallway with Wrought-iron Details

Georges de Feure

Design drawing of a wardrobe, chair, bureau and washstand decorated with roosters and female head medallions.

Furniture Designs: Wardrobe, Chair, Bureau and Washstand

Georges de Feure

Hand-coloured title page of Spanish bull-fights showing a ticket booth and figures in Spanish costume with bull-fight posters

The Spanish bull-fights, illustrated from original sketches made in the plazas of Madrid, Seville, Cadiz etc. Drawn f…

William Frederick Lake Price

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a white gown and blue shawl beside a gilded lyre and draped curtain.

Downman, J - Portrait of Lady Nugent

John Downman, 1810

Black and White Dog, Head Turned to the Left

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1794

Brown ink and wash drawing of allegorical figures with scales, a flute, a trumpet, a cherub and a heraldic shield.

Allegorical Composition: Music and Justice with the Spinola Arms

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Pen and grey wash drawing of music-making angels, saints and prophets gathered among clouds in a heavenly glory composition.

Prophets, Patriarchs, Saints, and Music-Making Angels in Glory

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Brown wash drawing of a draped woman on clouds holding a chalice and cross, with a cherub beside her.

Allegorical Figure of Faith

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Pen and wash drawing of Christ giving communion to a veiled abbess, surrounded by angels and cherubs on clouds.

Christ Giving the Host to a Holy Abbess

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Grey wash drawing of a heavenly scene with a bearded figure in light, a woman standing on a globe, and figures on clouds.

Allegory of the Immaculate Conception

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Sketches of Women

George Hayter, 1855

Pencil drawing of the hilltop town of Aricia with a domed church and palace above rooftops and trees in the foreground.

View of Aricia

Eduard Wilhelm Pose, 1843

Dark charcoal drawing of a man and a woman with children walking a path toward a distant village at dusk.

Burial of a child, drawing by Jean Delville, 1890, Prints Department of the Royal Library of Belgium, S.III 41960

Jean Delville, 1890

Head of a man, drawing by Jean Delville, 1910, Prints Department of the Royal Library of Belgium, F 27547

Jean Delville, 1910

Graphite drawing of a robed woman with a torch above a kneeling nude man and a seated hooded figure, over a grid.

Modern Justice, drawing by Jean Delville, 1911, Prints Department of the Royal Library of Belgium, F-2020-5

Jean Delville, 1911

Watercolour portrait of a woman in a white gown and green sash leaning on a stone terrace balustrade before a garden.

Portrait of Sarah Ley (b.c.1771), Mrs Richard Tickell from 1789 - Richard Cosway - ref Cosway-K07730-2

Richard Cosway, 1771

Pencil portrait sketch of a standing woman with curled hair, long gown and ruffled collar, inscribed Mrs Plowden below.

Portrait of Mrs Plowden

Pencil and chalk sketch of a standing woman in a long period gown with curled hair and ruffled collar.

Portrait of Mrs Plowden (cropped)

Black chalk drawing of a bearded older man with long hair gazing upward, on grey-blue paper.

Head of a Bearded Man

Domenichino, 1620

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated monk in a robe, looking upward and holding a book and staff.

Seated Monk

Brown wash drawing of the risen Christ rising above a tomb as soldiers recoil below, lit by radiant light.

The Resurrection of Christ

Grey wash drawing of a winged putto riding a lion with a sea horse head, framed by a curved arch.

A Winged Putto Riding a Sea Horse and a Lion (after Raphael); verso; The Three Graces (after Raphael)

Manet and his Easel

Frédéric Bazille, 1868

Pen and wash drawing with white highlights of a seated bearded god receiving a cup from a standing youth amid clouds.

Jupiter and Ganymede

Johann Carl Loth, 1645

Painting of a richly dressed noblewoman walking past a market street with vendors, a boy with a dog, and onlookers.

The Great Lady

George John Pinwell, 1873