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Drawings & Sketches

76,861 works

Watercolor of three rock slabs with fossilised fern fronds labelled Allthopteris, Jurassic Formation, Waikara.

Allthopteris, Jurassic Formation, Waikara

John Buchanan, 1864

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark curly hair holding a round fan against a yellow-olive background.

L' Africaine

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch in a sketchbook of figures in hats, including a man leaning over a seated child in a rural work scene.

Sketch of a sheep-shearing scene

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Pencil sketch of a rocky mountain gorge with tall trees, a small standing figure on a ledge, and distant peaks.

Mountain Gorge

John Sell Cotman, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a tipi, grazing horses, a campfire and a seated figure on a plain, dated Sept 99 Yankton S.D.

Yankton, S.D.

Solon H. Borglum, 1890

Watercolour of grassy hills and distant blue mountains under a pale cloudy sky, with trees at right.

From the hills above Dunblane

Edward Barraud, 1883

Pencil sketch of a flat shoreline with a rounded headland, a horse and rider in the foreground, and distant hills under pale

Langham, South Wales

the elder David Cox, n.d.

Charcoal drawing of a seated nude man seen from behind, head bowed, on a bench against dark hatched shading.

Nude from the back

Watercolor of two tall stems with clusters of orange four-petaled wallflower blooms and narrow green leaves.

Wallflower (Erysimum wheeleri)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Pencil sketch of two hourglass-shaped millstones on stone bases above a paved floor, labeled mills in bake shop Pompeii.

Mills in Bake Shop--Pompei

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pen and brown ink sketch of a seated man in a cap feeding a dog beside a table with food.

Mies ja koira

Alexander Lauréus, 1800

Graphite drawing with white highlights of a nude male athlete modeled on a classical statue, holding a discus.

(Untitled) (Greco-Roman Discus Thrower)

Kenyon Cox, 1870

Watercolor of a root beer seller's cart with two customers drinking on a city sidewalk, a street sign nearby.

The Rootbeer Seller

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Two nude figures with flowing hair fall through blue sky among gold stars and swirling clouds, in a tall vertical drawing.

Fallen angels (Franciscan Church polychromy design)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896

Pencil sketch of a river winding past wooded banks and hills, with a tall tree on the right and small figures wading.

River Scene

the elder Probably David Cox, n.d.

Ink drawing of several blackletter title designs reading Deutsche Bücherei with ornamental flourishes and variant sketches.

Type design for a book published by Dr. P. Kieft

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Ink and pencil book cover design with blackletter title Waal-Waal, ornamental borders and a flourished lower-right corner.

Book cover design for: Margarete Boie, Waal - Waal! Das leben eines Sylter Grönlandfährers, 1942

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1942

The Tanagra Figure

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pen and pencil sketch of nude warriors battling rearing centaurs, one figure raising a sword, with loose background figures.

Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs

Attributed to Joshua Cristall, n.d.

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a woman seen from behind with raised arm, with a separate study of an arm and hand at left.

Study of bathing women

Pen and ink sketch of caricatured figures in 19th-century dress, including a bowing man, a walking couple, and seated men.

The Story of Mr Lipko

Aleksander Gierymski, 1866

Pen and ink study sheet with looping calligraphic flourishes and spirals on ruled grid paper, with a wash smudge at left.

Study sheet

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1884

Pencil sketch of a standing boy in a fur cap, buttoned coat and laced boots, hands in pockets, against a sketched background.

Boy in a Fur Cap

Eero Järnefelt, 1918

Pencil study of a bearded male figure with both arms raised, on aged yellowed paper.

Drawing - Paolo de Matteis

Paolo de Matteis

D. Sickles

James Edward Kelly, 1890

Pen and ink drawing of a seated male figure seen from behind, with draped cloth over the legs, on tan paper.

Seated Female Figure after the Antique

Baldassare Peruzzi, 1533

Pencil sketch of a seated cat with tail wrapped around its body, on a tan sketchbook page numbered 59.

Sketch of seated cat in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pen and wash sketch of a caricatured man riding a galloping horse beside a dog, with trees and clouds in the background.

Comic Scene II

George Cruikshank, n.d.

Edward N. Duryee

James Edward Kelly, 1900

Pen sketch of a rural street with cottages and trees along a grassy bank, the lower page left blank.

Street next to the canal

Watercolor of a man in a blue coat driving a horse-drawn rubbish cart with a raised whip.

The Rubbish Man

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Ink drawing of a yarn ball and knitting needles with a yarn strand forming the words "vive L'Amérique".

Knitting

Léo Laporte Blairsy, 1910