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Drawings & Sketches

78,986 works

Pen sketch of a village with half-timbered houses, a gothic church spire and archway, and a faint ornamental scroll design.

Sketch of a Small Gothic Church, with a Design for Gothic Ornamentation

Pen drawing of a Gothic spire, a classical house, and carved ornamental woodwork and timber detail on aged paper.

Three Sketches of: a House, A Gothic Spires and Ornamentation

Pen sketches of Gothic church objects and an angel above a watercolour of the crucified Christ on a pale ground.

Sketches, Volume one

Augustus Pugin, 1833

Watercolor caricature of a bald, bearded man in a dark formal suit with a red lapel ribbon, holding a white paper.

Eugène Giraud, caricature of Gustave Boulanger, Les Soirées du Louvre 23

Pen and ink sketch of a standing female figure in flowing drapery, head tilted, with a wreath in her hair.

Standing Draped Female Figure

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and ink sketch of a reclining river god with a goat's head, a heraldic shield, and small emblem studies.

Reclining River God, a Goat's Head, and Studies of Heraldic Emblems (recto); Cavalier Standing on a Globe Supported b…

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and ink sketch sheet with figures bending forward and a grey pencil standing figure seen from behind.

Standing Figure and Figures Bending Over

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and wash drawing of God the Father in clouds reaching toward a kneeling figure in a landscape with trees.

God the Father Appearing to a Kneeling Figure

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and wash drawing of a winged nude woman riding a triton with a curling fish tail.

Nude Female Riding on a Triton's Back

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Loose brown ink sketch of a charioteer leaning forward with arm outstretched, driving a horse-drawn chariot.

Charioteer

Domenico Gargiulo, 1609

Pen and brown ink sketch of a crouching man and a standing nude man with a staff on a shaded ground.

A Crouching Man Defecating and a Standing Man Urinating

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and brown wash sketch of four male figures in hats and loose clothing, two standing and two seated, on aged paper.

Figure Studies: Two Standing and Two Seated Men

Domenico Gargiulo, 1609

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a standing nude putto beside a study of a helmeted head.

Standing Nude Putto and Study of a Helmeted Head

Domenico Gargiulo, 1609

Pen and ink sketch of a seated figure receiving an object from a smaller turbaned figure, with grey wash.

Seated Figure Receiving an Object Presented by a Smaller Figure

Domenico Gargiulo, 1609

Sheet of Studies: Three Figures Above, Studies of Horses Below

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and ink sketch of robed figures on steps beneath columns, with a rising figure among clouds above.

Unidentified Subject: Scene of Martyrdom ?

Domenico Gargiulo, 1609

Pen and ink sketch of a seated Virgin and Child in clouds above a standing robed figure with a staff.

Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Paul

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and ink sketch of seated draped figures and flying figures with outstretched arms on aged paper.

Studies of a Group of Seated Figures and of a Flying Figure

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and brown ink sketch of two nude male figures, one seated and one reclining, on aged paper.

Two Nude Male Figures, One Seated and One Reclining

Domenico Gargiulo, 1609

The Baptism of Christ (recto); Kneeling Figure (?) in a Landscape (verso)

Domenico Gargiulo, 1612

Pen and grey wash drawing of two standing men in feathered hats and ruffled collars, one seen from behind.

Two Standing Men

Domenico Gargiulo, 1609

Pen and blue wash drawing of a battle on a bridge, with an angel above and a radiant cross inscribed IN HOC SIGNO VINCES.

Constantine's Battle at the Milvian Bridge

Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder

Circular pen and brown ink drawing of nude women bathing in a woodland with a reclining bearded river god in the foreground.

Diana Surprised at her Bath

Hans Rottenhammer

Black chalk portrait of a man with a mustache and fur collar, drawn on grey-blue paper, looking at the viewer.

Portrait of Piermarino Bernabò

Ottavio Mario Leoni

Black chalk portrait of a woman with curled hair and feathered headdress on blue-grey paper, gazing at the viewer.

Portrait of a Woman

Ottavio Mario Leoni

Pencil drawing of the Holy Family with Mary holding the Christ Child, a kneeling man, and reclining cherubs on clouds.

Holy Family

Girolamo da Carpi

Sepia lithograph of a man leaning on a door while two veiled women in striped robes stand in a rustic room.

La Fiancée du Roi de Garbe

Louis Hersent, 1900

Grey wash drawing of the risen Christ on a cloud above a tomb, with sleeping and startled soldiers below.

The Resurrection of Christ

Jan Claudius de Cock

Pencil drawing of children playing in a backyard between wooden houses, with a dog, a rocking chair, and trees.

After Supper

Grey wash drawing of draped classical women and a helmeted warrior on a rocky shore, with a ship in the distance.

Study for bank-note vignette- Minerva with classical figures

John William Casilear, 1831

Watercolour of a seated woman in a white gown handing a card to a standing man in a green coat in an interior.

The Visiting Card - Langham Sketching Club Subject

Hand-colored set design of a palace interior with columns, golden statues and two costumed figures on a checkered floor.

Alessandro Sanquirico - Interno del Palazzo di Cleopatra (set design for the ballet 'Cleopatra in Tarso' by Jean-Pier…

Alessandro Sanquirico, 1821