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Drawings & Sketches

76,817 works

Pencil sketch of a steep alpine valley with mountains and a small village on the valley floor.

Toblach, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Red Crayon Study

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Watercolor of Lake Wakatipu with calm blue water, hazy mountains, and boulders with reddish shrubs in the foreground.

Lake Wakatipu

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Man and Woman Under a Fruit Tree

Edvard Munch, 1929

Pencil and wash drawing of a bowed, bearded elderly man with clasped hands, seated in a loose robe.

Ukko

Alexander Lauréus, 1817

Lace Making

Joseph Bail, 1920

Hand painted plate of numbered beetles and their larvae, each with a scale bar, labelled Plate VIII.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate VIII]

George Hudson, 1934

Woman in a yellow gown with a serpent and birdcage, above a reclining nude figure, against a dark swirling background.

Babylon

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Painting of many overlapping hands and arms with lace cuffs, a red and white flower bouquet, and blue fabric on a dark backgr

Study of hands

Nicolas de Largillière, 1715

Brown wash drawing of a timber house beside a leaning tree, with a flat landscape and distant church spire.

House with trees

Child with Fruit

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Watercolor of a stone arch bridge over a river, with cows on rocks, cottages, trees, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Bolton Bridge

Percy Lancaster

Sketch of a man in a wide-brimmed hat with a raised hand, drawn in red chalk on pale canvas with paint drips.

Self-Portrait with Afflicted Eye

Edvard Munch, 1930

Pencil drawing of Liverpool Cathedral under construction, with scaffolding, timber trusses, a curved vault and workmen on the

Liverpool Cathedral

Muirhead Bone, 1913

Pencil sketch of tall sumac plants with seed heads and leafy stems, with handwritten colour notes in the lower right.

Sketch of weeds

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a lakeside village with cypress trees and mountains reflected in still water.

(Sketchbook) The Lake from Vevey

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a young woman with dark hair, red lips and a white ruffled collar against a green background.

Pierette

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Charcoal sketch of a standing man in a long coat beside animals in a rocky landscape with distant trees.

Sketch of man and animals in landscape in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Pencil sketch of a central woman holding an infant with other figures around her, on a long pale sheet.

Alma Mater. The Researchers

Edvard Munch, 1914

Pencil sketch of poplar trees, a farmhouse and a mountain ridge across a flat landscape.

Near Evian

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a woman with upswept hair, head turned upward, against a loose teal and grey background.

Self-Portrait in Light Tones

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Watercolor of a river winding through a golden valley beneath blue-shaded mountains under a pale sky.

Mataura Gorge, Southland

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil study sheet with several arms and hands in varied gestures, including two hands reaching toward each other.

Arms and Hands

Watercolor of a sandy shore with a town, church spire, distant mountain, and a sailboat on calm water.

Isle of Wight from Portsmouth

Anthony Copley Fielding, 1832

Sepia crayon portrait of a young man in a peaked military cap and tunic, with the name Richard S Conover inscribed above.

Richard Stevens Conover

John Elliott, 1920

Joseph B. Carr

James Edward Kelly, 1890

Seated man with a cigar in a dark jacket on a chair, with lettering naming C.S. Reinhart as a Scribner's illustrator.

C.S. Reinhart/Is. One. of. the. Illustrators./in. this./Month.s./.Scribner.s

William Sergeant Kendall, 1930

Two studies of a young girl, standing with tam'o'shanter

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Colored pencil sketch of a tall tower with a pointed tiled roof and surrounding stone and timber rooftops.

Sketches from Nuremberg. City buildings at the river

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pencil study of a nude male figure with raised arm and bent leg on cream paper.

Hevosella ratsastava alaston nuorukainen

Anders Ekman, 1845

Watercolor fragment of a still life with a tall vase and a rounded jug on white cloth against an ochre background.

Still life (fragment)

Julie de Graag, 1887

Sepia wash drawing of a tall tree, a standing man with a staff, rocks, and distant mountains.

Untitled - Charles Conner, 1880

Charles Conner, 1880