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Drawings & Sketches

76,868 works

Pen and watercolour design of a domed circular temple with columns, a central statue, and the word Concordia on its frieze.

Design for a Temple of Harmony

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and wash architectural elevation of a classical building with a dome, pediment, and central columned portico.

Design for decorations on the Felix Meritis building

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Red chalk portrait of a smiling man in a peaked military cap and uniform collar, with the name inscribed at upper left.

Elliot Christopher Cowdin

John Elliott, 1920

Pen and wash architectural design of an arched niche with drapery and figures, inscribed Huldiging van Amsterdam.

Design for decoration on the Felix Meritis building with Homage to Amsterdam

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Pastel drawing of a woman in a rose-embroidered black shawl beside a gilt mirror reflecting her figure.

The Spanish Shawl

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a calm bay with hills, a rocky outcrop, and a sailing boat reflected in the water.

Dunbarton from the West

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, n.d.

Watercolor of white trout lily plants with mottled green leaves and drooping white flowers with yellow centers.

White Troutlily (Erythronium albidum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1919

Two-panel drawing of a sword-bearing female figure amid mourners, raised arms, blue irises and thorny vines in red and blue t

Polonia - Lviv Cathedral stained glass window design

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1893

Brown ink and wash drawing of four putti playing music under a tree within an arched overdoor design.

Design for an overdoor with making-music putti

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Grey ink drawing of a man and woman at a table beside two landscape sketches with trees and sky.

Sketch of man and woman at table and two sketches of landscapes

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pencil sketch of two mules pulling a cart with a spoked wheel on yellowed, torn paper.

Two Mules and Cart

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pencil sketch of a large tree by a seaside promenade with a horse cart, lamp post, seated figure and distant hills.

On the Marina, Palermo

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a stone arch bridge over a rocky river, with trees and hills under cloudy sky.

Linmouth (Lynmouth)

Faint sketch of construction workers beside scaffolding and a wooden shed, drawn in blue and red pencil on pale fabric.

Construction Workers

Edvard Munch, 1929

Charcoal drawing of a seated peasant woman with a dark bun, striped shawl and clasped hands, with handwritten notes around he

Peasant Woman

Charles Léandre, 1910

Fantasy

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Watercolor of green pitcher plants with tubular leaves, a yellow-green flower, and purple-tipped rosette leaves.

Green Pitcherplant (Sarracenia orephila)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1933

Platycephalus sp (Tas) : Flathead

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Pastel portrait of a woman with short brown hair in a green dress and pale green bead necklace, set against a turquoise arch.

Portrait of Maria Choroszewska in a green dress

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1933

Charcoal drawing of low farm buildings under a stormy sky with diagonal rain strokes and muddy ruts in the foreground.

An Ambulance Post

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Soft pastel portrait of a young blonde girl with a dark bow in her hair, wearing a white blouse against a dark background.

Peggy

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Watercolor of a hemlock conifer branch with green needles and small purple young cones on a cream background.

Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1924

Charcoal drawing of an art academy studio with students at easels around a standing model.

Academy class

Watercolor study of figures beneath golden trees and a blue bird in a lunette-shaped composition, c. 1925.

Bird of Paradise, study

Magnus Enckell, 1925

Sepia drawing of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and jacket, looking directly at the viewer.

Walt Whitman

Thomas Dewing, 1870

Watercolour of a dirt lane past a red-roofed brick cottage and trees, opening onto a hazy valley and hills.

Near Bath

William Hardwick

The Letter

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Watercolor of a rainbow over a river with a ferry boat, figures, cows, geese and swans on a meadow.

An April Shower: A View from Binsey Ferry Near Oxford, Looking Towards Port Meadow and Godstow

William Turner, 1842

Brown ink drawing of swirling floodwaters, collapsing cliffs and dark storm clouds with mirror script above.

A deluge

Leonardo da Vinci, 1517

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of figures under an arched doorway between tall buildings, with onlookers at windows.

Christ mocked

James Ensor, 1885

Charcoal and crayon drawing of a man in a long coat with a mustache, set against swirling blue and yellow landscape bands.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Edvard Munch, 1906

Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard

James Edward Kelly, 1880