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Drawings & Sketches

76,731 works

Pencil drawing of two human legs standing on a ground line, with a partial leg study beside them on aged paper.

Two Legs

William Blake, probably 1805/1810

Drawing of carved Romanesque capitals and two bas-relief panels showing knights, religious figures, and animals, by John Sell

Capitals and A & B Bas-Reliefs in the Abbey Church of Saint Georges de Bocherville, near Rouen, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Drawing of a man in a red fez and ottoman-style costume with a red sash, holding a cane beside a column.

Venetian Man

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Ink and wash sketch of three standing female nudes grouped closely together, outlined in dark brush strokes.

Group of Three Female Nudes

Loose pencil sketch of a figure ascending among swirling cloud forms, with a handwritten inscription in the lower right.

A Figure Ascending in a Glory of Clouds (?)

William Blake, probably c. 1805

Grey wash drawing of a misty estuary with a white-sailed boat, small figures, and a distant mountain peak.

Cader Idris from the Mawddach Estuary above Barmouth

John Sell Cotman, 1802

Pencil drawing of a tropical street with palm trees, wooden houses and women carrying baskets on their heads.

Street view just outside Paramaribo

Hendrik Huygens, 1849

Drawing of a winged angel offering a cup to a wreathed woman beneath a stanza of text, by Elihu Vedder.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Cup of Death

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal sketch of a reclining man with long dark hair in a draped robe, leaning on a dark cushion, by James Ensor.

Chinoiserie, a seated man

James Ensor, 1885

Pen and brown wash drawing of a large abbey with twin spires, with horse riders galloping across a field in the foreground.

Abbaye Aux Hommes, Caen

John Sell Cotman, 1818

Pencil sketch of a decorative border with scrolling ornament and small figures, inscribed as a first sketch by William Blake.

An Armed Man Spurning a Woman [recto]

William Blake, c. 1790/1795

Charcoal sketch of two seated men in an interior, one smiling and smoking, the other seen from behind in an armchair.

Two Gentlemen Smoking

Pencil sketch of a coastal sea view with small boats, distant hills and a lighthouse in the lower right corner.

Cape Spartel, Morocco

Jacobus van Looy, 1902

Pencil landscape of a large gnarled tree beside a river, with a thatched hut, horse and cart, and two figures on the left.

Landscape with a tree and hut with horse and cart and two figures

Hendrik Huygens, 1849

Pencil drawing of a wooden stilted house with figures, barrels and palm trees in a tropical landscape.

Simple dwelling with figures

Hendrik Huygens, 1849

Pencil sketch of a kneeling woman in a headscarf gathering potatoes into a basket in a field.

Kneeling potato harvester

Willem Witsen, 1884

Colored drawing of a brick gabled house with a picket fence, bare trees along a dirt road and canal, and a barn behind.

View of a house on the Schagerlaan

Tinus de Jongh, 1919

Drawing of a woman in a dark dress seated at a writing desk, pencil in hand, turning her head toward the left.

Portrait of Emma, Queen Regent of the Netherlands

Pieter de Josselin de Jong, 1893

Pencil sketch of a flat valley with palm trees and cliffs in the distance, labelled Thebes.

Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil portrait of a young man with curly hair and a beard, holding an open book, drawn on lilac paper.

Benjamin Rush Spencer

Lilly Martin Spencer, 1840

Head of a boy

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Brown wash drawing of a church tower with spire, a ruined arch, and oxen pulling a cart beside a stone wall.

Douvres Church, Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1820

Pencil sketch of a bearded seated figure in long robes with outstretched arms, attributed to William Blake.

An Ascending Spiral of Figures [recto]

William Blake, probably c. 1820

Pencil sketch of a seated female nude with long hair beside a landscape, with drapery studies on the verso.

Study of a Female Nude (possibly for an unrealized allegorical painting) (recto); Studies of Drapery and Study of a L…

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Pen and ink drawing of a tree-lined pond with lily pads, reeds, and a narrow path through a garden.

(Arboretum)

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Pen and wash drawing of a stone church gable with round-arched windows, pointed windows and a grassy bank in front.

Church of Graville near Havre de Grace, Normandy: End of the North Transept

John Sell Cotman, 1817

Pencil sketch of a bearded seated figure flanked by two women leaning toward him, with a sun and trees in the background.

Job and His Daughters

William Blake, c. 1821

Ink and wash drawing of a village street with stone cottages, an ox cart, and a distant obelisk monument.

Yorktown

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Painting of a large old tree with textured bark beside a forest path, with ferns and sunlit trees behind it.

Study of a tree

Wilhelm Peter Bayer, 1861

Ink and wash drawing of a Vienna council chamber with chandeliers, a crowd of men with raised arms, and seated officials.

"Address resolution of the Vienna City Council against the concordat on the evening of 9.10.1867"

fraglich: Vinzenz Katzler, 1867

Ink sketch of a seated group of women in flowing robes with a child, drawn in loose lines on tan paper.

Lady Torrens and Family

William Blake after John Linnell, c. 1825

Watercolor drawing of a seated old man, a plumed soldier, a boy in pink, a page in a blue coat with a turban, and a dog.

Figure composition with black court jester and dog

Hendrik Krock, 1671-1738