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Drawings & Sketches

76,731 works

Watercolor of a seated woman in a wide hat and dark dress leaning against a tree, with pencil foliage sketched below.

Marie à Bellevue

Louis Gallait, 1858

Charcoal and red chalk studies of several carp on cream paper, with fins and heads drawn in multiple views.

Studies of carps

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1876

Pen and brown wash drawing of five standing classical figures, some draped and some nude, arranged in a row.

Five statues

Gaspare Diziani

Sepia drawing of a steep rocky cliff topped by a ruined castle, with a town below and a hunter with dogs in the foreground.

Domfront, Looking to the South East

John Sell Cotman, 1820

Native of Tibet

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Ink and wash drawing of a formal room with paneled walls, framed portraits, a chandelier, armchairs, and two women by a windo

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pencil and wash drawing of a Romanesque church interior with arches and columns leading to an altar with a lectern.

East End of the Abbey Church of Saint-Georges de Boscherville, near Rouen, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Pencil sketch of a nude winged warrior angel holding a sword, arm outstretched, by William Blake.

A Warring Angel [recto]

William Blake, c. 1780

Pen and wash drawing of a hilltop town with churches, villas, a stone wall and a gateway under a pale sky.

City view with houses and wall by river; in the background churches and palaces

Jens Petersen Lund, 1730-1793

Pencil study sheet with several carp heads and eyes drawn from different angles, with handwritten Dutch annotations.

Studies of the heads and eyes of carps

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1876

Pencil sketch of a young girl with bangs, head bowed, hands visible below, on pale paper.

Girl

James Ensor, 1883

Pencil sketch of layered mountains and islands along a coast, with handwritten labels reading Naxos.

Naxos

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Grey wash drawing of a gnarled tree beside a small arched stone bridge over a riverbank, with a blank foreground.

Landscape by a riverbank

Edwin Austin Abbey

Sepia ink and wash drawing of historic cannons enclosed by a chain between stone pillars, surrounded by bare trees and hills.

West Point Revolutionary Relics

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Three pencil and watercolour studies of armoured men with plumed helmets, one holding a halberd, on beige paper.

Studies of men in armor

Karol Ľudovít Libay

Pencil and brown wash drawing of a Gothic church east end with arches and pinnacles, with a pack animal and figures on a stre

East End of Saint Jacques at Dieppe, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1819

Pen and ink sketch of a young girl in a long skirt carrying a pitcher, with faint figures sketched behind her.

Sketch of a Girl with a Pitcher to

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1882

Pencil sketch of a robed figure with bowed head and swirling lines, with a small crouching figure at lower right.

Time's Triple Bow [recto]

William Blake, c. 1804/1807

Pencil drawing of rocky sea cliffs, a church on a headland, distant hills and a sailboat on calm water.

Calabria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a bearded seated man with a staff gesturing to a robed figure, with studies of heads and standing attendants

Saint Augustine Converting King Ethelbert of Kent

William Blake, probably c. 1793

Sepia wash drawing of a ruined stone building beside an arched bridge, with cows drinking at a pool below hills.

An Old Building

John Sell Cotman, 1824

Watercolor of classical gods gathered around an enthroned central figure, with lyre players, a warrior, and garlands.

Conclave of the Gods

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Watercolor of a river with dense trees, billowing clouds, grazing cattle and a figure on the bank under a blue sky.

A Summer Day

John Sell Cotman, 1827

Pencil sketch of a man seen from behind, arms outstretched, rising above cloud-like forms on pale paper.

A Man Seen from Behind, Rising on Clouds

William Blake, probably c. 1794

Study for "The Reception of the Siamese Ambassadors at Fontainebleau"

Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1861-1864

Ink drawing of an elderly bearded man in a fur hat and dark cloak, hands clasped, hatched shading on pale paper.

Old Man with Flowing Beard

James Ensor, 1880

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a bonnet and lace collar, head tilted back against a chair, on tan paper.

Consumptive Young Lady of New Orleans

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil drawing of a stone fortress with a round tower and battlements rising above a harbor edge with mooring posts.

Civitavecchia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Copy

Pencil sketch of a seated man, an infant in a basket, and two standing figures in a classical interior.

The Infant Hercules Throttling the Serpents

William Blake, 1790-1793

Charcoal portrait of a man with tousled hair and mustache, head tilted, in a loose white garment, on yellow toned paper.

Portrait of Kahlil Gibran

Rose Cecil O'Neill, 1910

Fragmentary worn paper sheet with dark vertical tonal bands, horizontal fold lines and scattered spots.

Broadleaf plantain, leaf and flower spikes. Trial proof for the polychromy of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895