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Drawings & Sketches

76,731 works

Pencil drawing of an elderly woman seated by a window in a simple room, wearing a long coat and holding a lace cap.

The Berchtesgaden peddler Toni Adner at the age of 113 in his room

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1818

Loose oil sketch of a leaning tree beside a muted field and distant treeline under an overcast sky, with two small birds.

Sketch of a Landscape with a Tree in a Foreground

Karol Miloslav Lehotský, 1900

Sheep

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil and colored-pencil design of stylized grain stalks with looping tendrils and root-like bases on tan paper.

Grain stalks. Trial proof for the polychromy of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of a pale Gothic church with pointed windows, gravestones, a tree, and a seated figure on the grass.

Blickling Church, Norfolk, from the South-East

John Sell Cotman

Pencil sketch of Gallipoli waterfront with a fortified hill, minarets, low buildings and moored sailing boats.

Gallipoli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Oxen

Christoph Voll, 1930

Young woman, female head

Gaspare Diziani

Grey wash drawing of the ruined Bolton Priory church with arched windows, a tower, trees and two figures on a path.

Bolton Priory, Yorkshire

John Sell Cotman, 1803

Pen and ink sketch with grey pencil underdrawing showing draped figures around a table and armed men in a loose scene.

Scene from Roman history (?)

Gaspare Diziani

Ink drawing of an ornate carved column with grotesque faces beside a ring-shaped door handle with a mask and lion heads.

Tracings of ornaments decorating a column and an ornamental handle from the 16th century

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Armenian Girl of Constantinople

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Graphite sketch of a galloping horse with flowing mane and tail on cream paper.

Copies after compositions by Jan Matejko: a running horse

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1882

Grey wash drawing of a stone bridge over a river with a ruined castle tower and a figure on the bank.

Brecon Bridge, Yorkshire

John Sell Cotman, 1803

Watercolor and pencil design for a circular ceramic plate, with blue ground, green stem and foliage, and pale medallions on c

Design for a painting on a ceramic plate

Félix Bracquemond, 1875

Pencil sketch of the volcano Stromboli emitting a smoke plume above the sea, with a small rock at the left edge.

Stromboli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor and pencil design of botanical motifs of leaves, flowers and seed pods arranged in a circle for a ceramic plate.

Design for the painting of a ceramic plate

Félix Bracquemond, 1875

Charcoal drawing of two windswept women beside a block of handwritten verse, against dark swirling clouds.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Whence and Whither?

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen and watercolor drawing of a gilded secretaire cabinet with an oval figural medallion and tapered legs, 1798.

Depiction of a secretary decorated with Japanese lacquerwork

Jean-Henri Riesener, 1798

Grey wash drawing of a narrow street with gabled houses, a canal with a wooden bridge in front, and a carriage in the distanc

Binnen Vissersstraat seen from the Brouwersgracht

Pieter Ernst Hendrik Praetorius, 1811

Pencil drawing of an octagonal church font with Gothic arches, carved relief scenes and standing figures in niches.

A Font in Walsoken Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1811

Grey-wash drawing of armed civic guardsmen feasting at a long table in a hall with tall windows and a drum.

Civic guards' banquet in celebration of the Peace of Munster

Hermanus Petrus Schouten, 1762

Trompe-l'oeil drawing of a calligraphic certificate, engraved prints, blue ribbons and a quill feather on wood.

Trompe-l'oeil with a letter, three drawings and a quill

Abraham Tjerks, 1764

Ornate 1771 Dutch tribute drawing with decorative border, allegorical figures, cornucopias, and a verse honoring Nicolaas ter

Poem with framing on the occasion of the election of Nicolaas ter Smitten as captain of civic ward XVIII in Amsterdam

Abraham Tjerks, 1771

Pencil sketch of a Prague bridge arch, gothic tower with spires, a statue and gabled rooftops on tan paper.

Charles Bridge and the Malá Strana Bridge Tower in Prague

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Harpress Tomb, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown wash drawing in an oval showing three angels before a bearded man seated beside trees.

Abraham receives the three angels

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil drawing of a ruined Gothic church east end with pointed arches, pinnacles, ivy, and a resting cow.

East End of Howden Church, Yorkshire

John Sell Cotman, 1803

Brown ink and wash drawing of three winged putti hovering and tumbling together in an energetic cluster.

Three hovering putti

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil sketch of a fortified castle and town on a shoreline with hills behind, labeled European Castle, Dardanelles.

European Castle, Dardanelles

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Drawing of three draped women among swirling stars with a verse panel, shears and a lantern in the foreground.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Fates Gathering in the Stars

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Watercolor of moored sailing boats in a shallow estuary with brown hills and distant blue mountains under a pale sky.

Barmouth Estuary with Cader Idris, North Wales

John Sell Cotman