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78,986 works

Brown ink and wash sketch of figure groups, including men pulling ropes beside a boat and a crowd near a wooden frame.

Various Figure Groups

Palma il Giovane

Black chalk drawing with white highlights of a seated robed man bending over a large open book, on grey paper.

Seated Doctor of the Church Reading (Saint Ambrose or Saint Gregory)

Palma il Giovane

Pen and ink study sheet with a standing saint with staff, an angel, a Virgin figure, head studies and lettering.

Study sheet with St Francis, an Annunciation and three studies of heads

Palma il Giovane

Pencil and watercolor sheet of soldiers in shako hats and greatcoats, with rifle and equipment studies.

Uniforms of the civil guard in Courtray, Belgium

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Lithograph of mounted officers riding past a windmill, with a fallen soldier lying in the grass in the foreground.

Etat-Major 1794

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet, 1794

Ink sketch of a woman in a shawl and long skirt, seen from behind, with a touch of red wash at the hem.

Janie Ellice: Full Length Sketch

Edwin Landseer, 1649

Brown wash drawing of a bearded God in clouds with cherubs, above a kneeling man and women beside classical columns.

God the Father Appearing to Jacob

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Pen and ink drawing of several muscular nude male figures in dynamic poses, one restrained by the others.

Fantastic Subject: Five Nude Male Figures Punishing Another

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1609

Red chalk sketch of shepherds herding sheep and cattle past trees and rocks in a pastoral landscape.

Pastoral Journey with Flocks and Herds at a Stream

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1660

Brown wash drawing of nomads herding sheep and an ox past trees, with a woman and children riding on the ox.

Pastoral Scene: Nomads with Sheep and Cattle

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1609

Bearded Man Wearing a Turban

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1647

A Sheet of Sketches - Theatrical Studies

Theodor von Holst

Watercolor of well-dressed people gathered around a table in an ornate room with porcelain vases and lamps.

Selecting miniatures, old store, Bailey, Banks, Biddle, Philadelphia

Alice Barber Stephens, 1895

Watercolor of Roman ruins with a brick bell tower, a shepherd with sheep, and two figures pointing in the foreground.

Temple of Venus and Rome from the Colosseum by William Pars

William Pars, 1781

Pencil sketch of centaurs and Lapiths in combat across a frieze-like composition with a draped figure.

Sketch of Centaurs and Lapiths From a Frieze

Sketch of a Horseman, From the Parthenon Frieze

Pen drawing of a draped classical statue with measurement lines and numbers annotating its proportions on a pale paper.

Measured Drawing of Sculpture in Gymnasium at Ephesus

Grey wash drawing of a seated male nude facing right, head bowed, with white chalk highlights on the muscular body.

Seated Male Nude Facing Right - Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

Lithograph of two men in blue uniforms operating controls inside a submarine with pipes, dials and an arched hatch.

The Submarine Series. Diving controls while submerged - Lithograph PU8083

Eric Ravilious, 1941

Watercolor landscape of a river, rocky cliffs, a domed stone building and snowy mountains with small robed figures.

The Bourtassi Mosk, or the Derviches Convent, Tripoli, Lebanon

Louis-François Cassas, 1813

Brown and blue wash drawing of the Annunciation with an angel kneeling before Mary beneath a glowing dove.

The Annunciation

Jan Boeckhorst, 1659

Painting of a seated woman in a red dress drawing on paper at a table beside a marble bust.

A Lady Drawing

Eglon van der Neer

Winged Cupid draws back red drapery beside a sleeping nude Psyche on a bed in a classical columned interior.

Cupid and Psyche by Francois-Edouard Picot, Louvre

François-Édouard Picot

Pen and grey wash drawing of a classical arch and bridge beside a harbor with sailing ships and a domed building.

Capriccio of a Bridge with the Arcus Argentariorum by a Mediterranean Harbor

Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten

Watercolour of open plains with a horseback rider, a standing figure, sheep and a dog below blue hills.

William Mathew Hodgkins.The Upper Taieri Plains.Watercolour on card,161 × 208 mm.1896

William Mathew Hodgkins, 1896

Watercolor of armed robbers attacking kneeling Dominican friars while a mounted figure rides by a loggia with nuns.

Saint Catherine of Siena Rescues Two Dominicans from the Hands of Robbers

Johann Anton Ramboux

Two riders on horseback in a woodland clearing, one in a red coat with a top hat, with hounds nearby.

Drawing Cover by Jean-Richard Goubie

Jean Richard Goubie

Charcoal sketch of a helmeted soldier carrying a wounded soldier over his shoulders, on tan paper, 1918.

Soldier carrying a wounded soldier) - S.J. Woolf April 21 1918

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 1918

Black and white sketch of a man in a suit seated at a table, resting his chin on his hand and looking at the viewer.

Herbert Hoover, 1928 drawing by S. J. Woolf

Samuel Johnson Woolf, 1928

Pencil sketch of townspeople in 1820s dress: gentlemen in top hats, women with parasols, a horse rider, and a porter.

Sketches of Towns People

Joseph Nash, 1827

Pen drawing of the hooded figure Sycorax holding a serpent-wrapped staff, with two bats and Ionic columns framing it.

Sycorax (Bell)

Robert Anning Bell

Ink drawing of three vignettes: a woman with a whip, a seated man on a rococo bench, and a figure in an oval frame.

Three Vignettes for Book Illustration

Franz von Bayros