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Drawings & Sketches

76,817 works

Open sketchbook with pencil drawing of mountains above a lake, a château and village buildings on the shore.

(Sketchbook) Dent du Midi and Chateau du Chatelard from near Blouay

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Brown charcoal sketch with white chalk highlights obscuring faint outlines of two standing figures in a sketchbook page.

Obscured sketch of two standing figures fom An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor of a small stone chapel with a bell tower and cross, beside a stony road framed by trees and a seated figure.

Church by a Road

Jean Lubin Vauzelle, late 1700s-1800s

Ink and wash sketch of bare trees framing a lake and distant hills under a pale sky.

The Lake

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a large tree beside a long manor building with smoke rising from its chimney and a fence in the foreground.

Kiøsterud Manor, Åsgårdstrand

Edvard Munch, 1902

Pencil sketch on pale paper with scrollwork, wave hatching and faint outlines of a peacock, Rijksmuseum stamp at bottom.

Child with peacock

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1892

Painted ancient galley with a gilded commander pointing toward a walled riverside city and a stone bridge.

Landing of Scipio Africanus at Carthage

Michiel Coxie, 1555

Pencil sketchbook spread of distant mountains over a lake with trees and small buildings along the shore.

(Sketchbook) Dent du Midi from Chatel St. Dennis Road

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Study for Equestrian Monument (Gen. John B. Gordon)

Solon H. Borglum, 1900

Coloured drawing of stylized pink and yellow flowers on green stems against yellow, dark blue and red bands.

Everlasting. Design for the painted decoration of the chancel of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Pencil and ink sketch of a standing girl in folk costume with a bonnet, annotated with handwritten colour notes.

"Mora Tuna", kansallispukuun pukeutunut seisova talonpokaistyttö

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

The Shadow

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pastel portrait of a curly-haired child glancing over the shoulder beside a dark monkey, in soft green and pink tones.

Child with Monkey

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of tree trunks and branches on the right with a faint hillside across a pale sketchbook page.

Tree study. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Ink and wash sketch of three seated cats on tan paper, one shaded dark on the left and two lightly outlined.

Cats (recto)

Théodule Augustin Ribot, 1838-91

Pencil sketches on tan paper of animal leg bones and a rib cage with construction lines.

Sketch Book

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Open sketchbook with pencil drawings of two sailboats on calm water and a small cross monument at lower right.

(Sketchbook) Ouchy

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolour of a river winding past a red-railed bridge toward hazy mountains under a pale sky.

Glen Allen Bridge, Waiau River

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pencil study of a Gothic cathedral wall with pointed arches, tracery windows and a central altar structure.

Layout of the presbytery walls of Wawel Cathedral

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1900

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a green floral shawl beside a copper ewer, against a warm yellow background.

Seville in Montmartre

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch of a cluster of tall pine trees with layered branches and shaded foliage on a cream background.

Pines, Public Garden

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a young woman with a dark bob and hair ornament against a blue background.

Anita Hunt

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Charcoal drawing of a park with trees, a small classical pavilion, and two figures walking on an open lawn.

Landscape

Angèle Delasalle, 1910

Naive watercolor of the clipper ship Charles L. Cotton under full sail on blue waves, with banners and an American flag.

Clipper-Ship Charles L. Cotton of North Norwich

P. S. Downes, 1890

Pencil and wash drawing of a hazy valley with mountains, a winding river, trees and farm buildings on the right.

Manapouri (Manipori) Station

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pastel portrait of a woman in a dark hat, head tilted, set against swirling yellow and green diagonal strokes.

Firelight

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketchbook page with a large loose male face study and small sketched standing figures below.

Reading man and heads

James Ensor, 1886

Grey wash drawing of a windmill beside a wooden fence and embankment, with sailing boats on water under cloudy sky.

View of the Blaauwhoofd bastion with De Bok mill

Pieter Barbiers, 1727

Miehen kasvot

Ester Helenius, 1924

Colored design drawing of tall thistle stems and leaves in yellow and red, with geometric borders, by Stanisław Wyspiański.

Meadow thistle. Design for the polychrome of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of gabled brick canal houses, a bridge, pedestrians and a moored barge along a city canal.

View of the Singel near the entrance of the Huiszittensteeg

Johan Martinus Anthon Rieke, 1861

Poster of a standing man in evening dress beside a chair on yellow, with text naming Charles Dana Gibson in Scribner's.

Charles. Dana. Gibson./Is. One. of. the. Illustrators./in. this. Month's/Scribner.s./

William Sergeant Kendall, 1930