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Drawings & Sketches

79,224 works

Pastel portrait of a young man with powdered grey hair, grey coat, gold waistcoat and red rosette, seated in a gilt chair.

Portrait of a Young Officer

Pierre Allais, 1756

Brown ink and wash drawing of a knight on horseback and a squire with a donkey walking through a forest.

José Jiménez y Aranda Don Quixote y Sancho Panza

José Jiménez Aranda

Chalk portrait of a young woman with curled hair and a frilled white collar, looking upward.

Portrait de jeune femme au col troubadour - Constance Charpentier

Constance-Marie Charpentier

Watercolor of a tall reddish rock butte with green shrubs, flanked by snowy mountain ridges under a pale sky.

Cheops Pyramid, Grand Canyon by Gunnar Widforss, watercolor

Gunnar Mauritz Widforss

Red chalk drawing of a man with long curly hair and a jacket, drawn on grey paper with white highlights.

Portrait of a Man (recto); A Male Torso in Jacket and the Head of a Child (verso)

Vittore Ghislandi

Portrait of a woman with a diamond tiara, black lace shawl, blue sash, and pink roses, resting on a red draped ledge.

Sophie Liénard Queen Victoria at the theatre

Grey wash drawing of women and a child under a tree, with a kneeling woman holding an infant beside a basket.

The Finding of Moses

Giovanni Stefano Danedi

Charcoal sketch of soldiers running and firing through smoke near earthworks, with handwritten caption at the bottom.

12th Maine-19th corps driven out of their camp and over the earth works

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of artillery crews with cannons and wagons in an open field, smoke rising behind, dated 1864.

2nd Corps, Batteries in position on the bank of the North Anna. 2nd Maine Battery

Alfred Waud, 1864

Sketch of a funeral service in a grand hall with a chandelier, uniformed officers, a guard, and a casket draped with flowers.

Funeral service over Col. Ellsworth at the White House East Room

Alfred Waud, 1861

23rd N.Y. Vol.

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of uniformed soldiers carrying regimental flags, labeled 14th Brooklyn, on grey-green paper.

14th Brooklyn

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a uniformed soldier in a kepi holding a drum, labeled 14th Brooklyn, on grey-green paper.

14th Brooklyn

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of an elderly woman with a headscarf and walking stick, with handwritten caption about stolen hogs.

"Your men bin stealing my hogs"

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a uniformed bugler in a slouch hat playing a bugle, with a sword at his side on sketched ground.

A bugler

Pencil sketch of a uniformed soldier lying face down in tall grass beside a rifle, with trees in the distance.

A dead soldier

Pencil sketch of mounted cavalry crossing a ford beneath rolling hills, with officers watching from the right.

8th Penn Cavalry, crossing at Ely's Ford before battle of Chancellorsville

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers advancing through pine woods toward smoking log breastworks, with a seated figure at left.

5th Corps, 7th of February

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of a steamboat with a tall smokestack, rigging and a flag on tan paper.

A boat

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a mounted general and staff reviewing marching infantry in an open field below wooded hills.

A general and his staff reviewing troops in the field

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a horseman in the foreground and four riflemen in the distance on an open field.

A horseman and four rifleman

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a wooden bridge crossing a river, with tall trees and a distant treeline.

A bridge across a river

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a military funeral with a caisson, black-draped horse, mounted riders, and handwritten notes on procession o

A military funeral

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a mounted cavalryman with a wide-brimmed hat and upright rifle, riding a trotting horse, on torn tan paper.

A cavalryman

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of a mounted officer with raised sword leading soldiers charging under flags through smoke.

5th Mich. Charging at Opequon-Sept 19

Alfred Waud, 1864

5th excelsiors

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a standing soldier in a long coat and cap holding a rifle, with a tree and ground sketched behind him.

8th N.Y.V. Rifles

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a buccaneer in a hat and long coat aiming a pistol, with a cutlass at his side.

A buccaneer

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of cavalry and artillery advancing across a field toward smoke clouds, with a flagbearer at right.

9th Mass. batt. Bigelows going into position at Gettysburg

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of mounted soldiers and battle flags advancing across a field, with horses and riders in the foreground.

6th corps, headquarters at opening of battle, Winchester

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil and chalk sketch of soldiers charging across a field toward a fort under smoke, with handwritten notes in the margins.

9th Corps attacking Ft. Mahone better known as Fort Damnation

Alfred Waud, 1865

Brown wash drawing of mounted cavalry charging with raised sabers through smoke across an open field.

A calvary charge

Alfred Waud, 1860