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Drawings & Sketches

76,778 works

Pastel night landscape with green hills, a pale moon, and a deep blue frame resembling a window opening.

Sea Shore (set design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson

Major General William Starke Rosecrans

James Edward Kelly, 1900

Pastel portrait of a young man with powdered hair in a brown velvet coat and embroidered gold waistcoat against a dark backgr

Sir John Reade, Bart.

Rosalba Carriera, 1739

Pencil sketch of a standing woman beside a grand piano, with studies of two dogs in the lower foreground.

Interior with Woman, Two Dogs and Grand Piano

Edvard Munch, 1918

Grey wash drawing of workers and onlookers at a stone dry dock construction site with scaffolding and a wooden bridge.

Work on the sea lock and dry dock at Hellevoetsluis, ca. 1802

Balthazar Jooss, 1802

Watercolor drawing of a wooded landscape with two tall tree trunks, a seated figure on a path, and misty hills beyond.

Arcadian landscape with a resting man by the water

Jacob van Liender, 1725

Watercolor of five men in a paneled interior, one writing at a table, a dog in the foreground, a man in an open doorway.

Five men in interior

Jan Striening, 1837

Grey wash drawing of a battle scene with infantry firing muskets, a mounted officer, a fallen horse, and a flag among smoke.

Capture of the Russian General Hermann during the Battle of Bergen, 1799

Dirk Langendijk, 1799

Watercolor and pencil drawing of green wooden houses with red tiled roofs and shrubs under a cloudy sky.

View of houses in Nieuwendam

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Pencil sketch of a tall stone tower among trees and mountains, with handwritten colour notes, on an open sketchbook page.

(Sketchbook) Sierre

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor of ruined houses and rubble along a Leiden canal after an explosion, with people on the quay and a church spire be

View of the ruins on the Rapenburg in Leiden after the explosion of the gunpowder ship on January 12, 1807

Jan Willem Pieneman, 1807

Pastel portrait of a mustached man in a suit and yellow tie, on tan paper, inscribed Andrew Keogh, M.A., Librarian.

Andrew Keogh, M.A. 1904, Librarian 1916-

William Sergeant Kendall

Ink and wash drawing of a bridge over a stream with a large building, figures, a donkey and a dog on a dirt road.

Vigo Bridge

George Overbury "Pop" Hart

Pastel portrait of a smiling young woman with blue flowers in her hair, holding a paintbrush and palette against a gray backg

Painting - Rosalba Carriera, 1730

Rosalba Carriera, 1730

Pen and ink sketch of three men with knapsacks and pipes walking across a flat landscape toward a distant domed building.

Celebration of the 3 May

Aleksander Gierymski, 1866

Watercolor drawing of a woman carrying a rolled mat beside a man pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with matting.

Woman next to a man with a wheelbarrow

W. Barthautz, 1700

Watercolor of a cloth seller with a bundled fabric pack talking to a woman in a white headscarf and striped skirt.

Fabric merchant negotiating with a woman

W. Barthautz, 1700

Grey wash ornament panel of acanthus scrolls and vine leaves with four birds, signed Johannes Beretta 1791.

Ornament of leaf scrolls and birds

Johannes Beretta, 1791

Watercolor drawing of two girls standing face to face, one pointing, both in traditional dress with white bonnets.

Two girls standing opposite each other

W. Barthautz, 1700

Watercolor of a knife grinder at his cart in a courtyard, with a man handing a blade to a standing customer and a child watch

The knife grinder

W. Barthautz, 1700

Pencil sketch of a crouching nude female figure with a separate face study beside it on pale paper.

Luonnos kuvaan Peikko ja impi

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Pencil sketch of the Rhine river with castle ruins on a steep hill at right and a village church along the far bank.

The Rhine near Salzig, Castles Stirrenberg and Liebenstein

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of a dancer bending with raised arms and a veil swirling above, signed Troy Kinney in lower left.

The Seventh Veil

Troy Kinney, 1930

Pen and watercolour drawing of a seated woman, a child, and a standing man in front of a brick house with stairs.

Boy and woman with child in front of a house

W. Barthautz, 1700

Watercolor of a seated woman in a lace cap and striped skirt, a wooden yoke across her shoulders, on sand.

Seated woman with a yoke on her shoulders

W. Barthautz, 1700

Watercolor of a small girl holding a ball, looking up at a standing man in a blue coat and fur hat who smokes a pipe.

Girl with ball standing in front of a man

W. Barthautz, 1700

Watercolor of a cobbler smoking at his bench in a workshop while a child reaches toward a leaded window.

Shoemaker in his workshop

W. Barthautz, 1796

Pencil sketch of a tree-lined street in Galveston with a picket fence, a shuttered house, and palms.

Galveston, Texas

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor of a woman leaning on a half door looking at a boy in a blue coat holding a red clay pot.

Boy with a pot near a woman leaning on a half-door

W. Barthautz, 1700

Watercolor interior of a woman spinning at a wheel while a child sits on the floor beside a hearth and kitchen objects.

Interior with a spinning woman with a child

W. Barthautz, 1796

Two officers in red coats with blue facings and plumed hats stand on grass before a cloudy sky, painted in watercolor.

Two Subaltern Officers of the Batavian Army

Jan Anthonie Langendijk, 1797

Pencil sketch of a cottage, church spire and cart under loose cloud strokes, with handwritten notes above.

Sketch of cottage and cart from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893