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Drawings & Sketches

76,778 works

Ink drawing of a seated man in layered robes rubbing his head with a cloth, sandals placed beside him.

Seated man rubbing his head with a cloth

Totoya Hokkei, 1791

Hattupäinen nainen

Ester Helenius, 1923

Emma Isabella

n.d Anna Armstrong, 1800

Pastel portrait of a woman in a white turban and colorful patterned shawl, gazing forward against a muted background.

The White Turban

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch with blue colour accents of a bearded man in a rogatywka cap and high-collared jacket, in a sketchbook.

Portrait of a man in a rogatywka cap

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Watercolour drawing of a banded weedfish in side view with fin counts and a Tasmanian locality label.

Possibly Heteroclinus sp (Tas) : Weedfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Pencil sketch of an elderly woman with upturned face and folded hands, with handwritten note reading ma mère morte Ensor.

My dead mother IV

James Ensor, 1915

Pastel portrait of a woman with grape leaves and clusters of grapes in her hair, wearing a pink garment against a green backg

Bacchante

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Study for an Equestrian Monument

Solon H. Borglum, 1900

Graphite study of a standing male nude with outstretched arm, surrounded by smaller limb and figure sketches on tan paper.

(Untitled) (Studies of Male Nudes)

Kenyon Cox, 1870

Charcoal and red crayon drawing of a ruined village with collapsed walls, rubble, and a dirt road under a pale sky.

Destroyed Village, War Front

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketches on a page: an oval female portrait with draped shawl above, and a curly-haired male bust below.

Two copies after miniature portraits

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Pencil drawing of the classical Laocoön sculpture showing a muscular bearded torso and a coiled serpent below.

Laokoön

Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm, 1827

Pastel portrait of an older man's head in frontal view on tan paper, with a blue signature at lower right.

Old Actor

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pastel portrait of a young man with dark hair in a green open-collared shirt against a tan background.

Young Poet

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man on a bench with a small gnome figure and a boy, with ornate bowls on the floor.

Healing the Knee ; Original drawing for "Kalewala, Finsk National-dikt, framställd i teckningar af R.W.Ekman"

Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1860

Pencil sketch of a seashore at low tide with rocks in the foreground, a distant rocky outcrop, and a cloudy sky.

Untitled (Seashore)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a cluster of elm trees with hatched foliage and a single tree at right, on cream paper.

Elms--Eton, England

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Sepia drawing of a figure with a staff by a river under trees and clouds, with a pale sky.

Landscape

Henry Jury, 1873

Ink wash drawing of a dark bird with open beak perched on a branch, with loose brown foliage strokes on paper.

Chinoiserie, a bird

Pencil sketch of dancing and seated figures below rows of songbird studies with handwritten plumage notes.

Dance of the Haymakers

William Sidney Mount, c. 1845

Pencil sketch of three men in colonial dress on a lawn before a white colonial mansion with a cupola and bare trees.

Washington at Mount Vernon

Childe Hassam, 1930

Brown wash drawing of a grand arcaded palace interior with a staircase, soldiers, and a crowd carrying a large cross.

Christ Led Captive from a Palace

Giuseppe Galli da Bibbiena, 1740

Pastel portrait of a woman with short auburn hair and blue eyes, set against a green and teal background.

Untitled - Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Charcoal drawing of a standing male nude seen from behind, head bowed, on tan paper.

Hesitation

Pencil sketch of two men seen from behind in a notebook, with a leafy branch sketched at upper right.

Sketch of two men seen from the back

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Ink drawing of two men walking past a destroyed tank and wrecked vehicle in hilly countryside with trees.

"When the Slovaks rose up" (Illustration)

Karl Wiener, 1947

Oil study of a deer's head turned upward, with raised ears and a dark eye against a warm brown background.

Study of a deer

Holger Roed, 1874

Ornate 1826 drawing with calligraphic birthday dedication to King Willem Frederik, framed by laurel wreaths, griffins and win

Birthday wish Willem Frederik, King of the Netherlands

J.D. Haeyere, 1826

Grey wash drawing of rubble from a fallen church tower in Westzaan, with workers among stones and a brick church behind.

Depiction of the ruins of the tower in Westzaan that collapsed on January 1, 1843, by which disaster a house with man…

Herman Thepass, 1843

Pen drawing of a crowd marching in a Hague street carrying banners reading Volk, Vrijheid, Vaderland, with a dog in the foreg

Popular demonstration in The Hague, 1848

J.C. Wendel, 1848

Engraved sheet with overlapping oval portraits of the princes of Orange in ornate frames, dated 1773.

Portraits of the Princes of Orange and the Princes of Orange-Nassau

Leonardus Venroy, 1773