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Drawings & Sketches

76,868 works

Charcoal drawing of a hooded shepherd with a staff, a dog and sheep in the foreground, and a hillside behind.

The shepherd

Petrus van der Velden

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark upswept hair wearing a green cape with embroidered blue and gold collar.

Laura in Green Cape

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pastel set design of a dim living room with a fireplace, pink armchair, wooden chairs, and red checkered curtains.

Alice's Living Room--False Proscenium (set design)

William Penhallow Henderson

Colored crayon study of stylized flame-like ornament with curling scrolls and wavy lines on a red ground, with grid lines.

Study of an ornament for painted decoration of the blind east window in the transept arm of the Franciscan Church in…

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of a spruce branch with five pendant reddish-green cones and blue-green needles on a pale background.

Engelmann Spruce (Picea engelmanni)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Charcoal sketch of a standing woman playing a pipe beside a seated woman in loose clothing, on pale paper.

Standing and sitting gypsy woman

Watercolour of an old cobbled street with gabled houses, figures with baskets, and a church spire in the misty distance.

Old street, Chester

Brown ink drawing of a fortified hilltop town with hatched hills, cloudy sky and two ornamental cartouches with cherubs.

A Fortified Town (recto); A Geometric Design (verso)

Leonardo Scaglia, 1645

Pencil sketchbook page with several studies of women in aprons and bonnets, one carrying a tray on her head.

Figures

James Ensor, 1873

Pencil sketch on tan paper of abstract geometric forms, vertical lines, and stepped rectangles, with small Chinese characters

Original drawings and manuscripts by the artist, and documentary material

Viking Eggeling

Claudine

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a white gown with gold trim, holding a fan in an ornate gilded chair.

Lady with Fan

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of rocky sea stacks and grassy shoreline at Lyall Bay near Wellington, with distant mountains and a bird in the

Lyall Bay near Wellington

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Pen and pencil sketch of a Gothic cathedral with a pointed tower, steep roofs and tall arched windows.

Sketch of a Gothic Cathedral

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Beatrice

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a stone farmhouse with a red tiled roof, trees, a pig and a wooden fence.

Farmyard, Albi

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil drawing with an oval portrait of Józef Poniatowski in uniform, a small portrait of a man, and a group of women in head

Józef Poniatowski; Portrait of a man; “Descent of St John” (Hans von Kulmbach)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Grey wash drawing of soldiers arresting a chained man in a dining room while diners react with raised hands.

Arrest of Pieter Dirksz. Hasselaer, 1573

Joannes Pieter Visser Bender, 1809

Pencil drawing of the siege of Alkmaar in 1573 seen from Oudorp, with tents, soldiers, windmills and town churches.

Siege of Alkmaar in 1573, seen from Oudorp

Bernardus Gerardus ten Berge, 1861

Pencil drawing of the 1573 siege of Alkmaar showing soldiers, cannon, a stormbridge and the walled town skyline.

Siege of Alkmaar in 1573, seen from the north

Bernardus Gerardus ten Berge, 1861

Grey wash drawing of soldiers fighting in a field before a walled city with a church and windmills.

Sortie on the Boshuyser schans, 1574

J.C. Wendel, 1835

Long horizontal sketch of boys carrying a rose vine garland across arches and pillars, a frieze design by Hugo Simberg.

Panoraamakuva ruusuköynnöstä kantavista pojista, toteuttamaton suunnitelma, jossa 12 poikaa Tampereen tuomiokirkon le…

Sunset over the sea with orange and pink clouds, dark rocks and surf in the lower left foreground.

Maine Coast (#34)

Howard Russell Butler, 1920

Pen drawing of four soldiers aiming rifles while an officer with a sabre watches from the foreground on an open field.

Target practice exercises

Felician von Myrbach-Rheinfeld, 1895

Grey wash drawing of townspeople suffering famine during the siege of Leiden, with a soldier, a cart and a tower.

Famine during the siege of Leiden, 1574

J.C. Wendel, 1854

Sketch of figures in coats by blue water on snowy ground, with dark animals at left and handwritten lettering below.

Pakoretkellä Impivaarasta

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Pencil sketch of the Rhine river with a ruined castle on a hillside and distant mountains.

The Rhine below St. Goarshausen

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of a lake with hatched mountains rising to snowy peaks on the right, in an open sketchbook.

(Sketchbook) (Lake of Geneva from Vevey)

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Oil study of an older man with white moustache in a grey suit, resting his arms on a table against a brown background.

Sir Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, 1854 - 1925. Statesmen. (Study for portrait in Statesmen of the Great War)

James Guthrie, 1918

Watercolor of a bouquet of yellow zinnias with red centers and slender green leaves on a pale background.

Zinnia (Zinnia grandiflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1931

Chalk drawing on grey paper of a standing woman in a full skirt with ruffled hem, one arm raised.

Study of a standing lady with one hand resting on her skirt, the other slightly raised

Hendrik Pothoven, 1735

Pencil sketch of a bird in flight beside a tree trunk, above a sketched arched railing on a peach-toned sheet.

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