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Drawings & Sketches

76,868 works

Pencil drawing of a riverside mill settlement with smoking chimneys, wooden houses and rapids below wooded hills.

Tammerkoski

Magnus von Wright, 1846

Pencil drawing of Castle Oberlahnstein on the Rhine, showing a tall stone tower, gabled buildings and trees in the foreground

Castle Oberlahnstein, Rhine

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Vamp of 1900 (Lottie Stein)

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Watercolor of blue-eyed grass stems with blue star-shaped flowers, yellow centers and slender green leaves on a pale backgrou

Blue-eyed-grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a horse-drawn baker's cart loaded with bread, with a man in a blue jacket handing a loaf to a woman.

The Baker's Cart

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Untitled (Two Drawings of Men)

Howard Russell Butler

Sketchbook page with smudged graphite figure at center and a pencilled hand outline at upper right.

Sketches in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolor drawing of the Annunciation with an angel and the Virgin Mary at a lectern, framed by Gothic stained-glass style o

The Annunciation

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1891

Watercolor of yellow evening primrose blossoms, buds and green leaves on a dark stem against a white background.

Evening Primrose (Oenothera)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1933

Pencil drawing of a Gothic cathedral with tall spires and a rose window, surrounded by scattered rubble in the foreground.

Cathedral

Solon H. Borglum, 1910

Pencil sketch of the Rhine at Oberwesel showing a church, riverside town, hilltop castle ruins and a rowboat on the shore.

Rhine at Oberwesel

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Notolabrus celidotus (NZ) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke

Pencil design drawing of a circular geometric rose ornament above scalloped arch friezes on tan paper, by Stanisław Wyspiańsk

Design of a chair for the Żeleński family

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Colored pencil sketch on canvas of a woman with blonde hair and blue outlined dress, with faint background figures.

Dagny Konow

Edvard Munch, 1917

Watercolor of a Leather Flower clematis with nodding violet-blue bell flowers, a bud, and fine green leaves on red stems.

Leather Flower (Clematis hirsutissima)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Ink and red chalk drawing of a dense crowd of faces with a robed figure beside fish on the right.

The multiplication of the fishes

James Ensor, 1891

Ink drawing of a large decorative letter V overlapping a military cap with feather plume and uniform details.

Munter-runon alkukirjain V. Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitusta

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Pen line drawing of a woman's face and shoulders, facing forward with bobbed hair, signed Gorky in the upper left.

Head

Arshile Gorky, 1940

Pencil sketch of a river valley between mountain ranges, with grass in the foreground and a smaller study at right.

Hurunui Valley

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Graphite and red chalk sketch of a woman in a red headscarf holding a young child on her shoulder, on gray paper.

Mother and Child

Fernand Maillaud, 1940

Pencil sketch of a shoreline with boats, rocks, sand and a small building near the water.

The Shoreline in Åsgårdstrand

Edvard Munch, 1904

Watercolor of two Columbia lily stems with orange spotted nodding flowers and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Columbia Lily (Lilium columbianum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Pencil sketch of a man in three-quarter view with head tilted upward, high collar and jacket, on cream paper.

J. R. Danielson-Kalmari

Eero Järnefelt

Watercolor of a man in a green coat and top hat talking with a cane seller holding a cane beside a bundle of canes.

The Cane Seller

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Poster of a standing bearded man in white sweater and pink trousers beside a pole, with text advertising Robert Blum's painti

Robert Blum's/Great Decorative/Painting/In/January/Scribner's

William Sergeant Kendall, 1930

Pen and ink sketch of five figures on a walk, two men in caps and coats and two women with parasols and long dresses.

On a walk

Aleksander Gierymski, 1866

Oil study of an elderly bearded man looking upward, with grey hair, white garment and orange drapery against a dark backgroun

Study of the head of a bearded man

Frans Floris, 1530

Major General David Sloan Stanley

James Edward Kelly, 1890

Watercolor drawing of a man in a yellow hat playing a banjo while dancing on a wooden platform.

The Negro Banjo Player

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Pastel head study of a young man with dark hair, drawn in loose colored strokes on a tan paper ground.

Head Study

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Watercolor of two plume anemone plants with tall stems, feathery silvery seed heads, and finely divided green leaves.

Plume Anemone (Pulsatilla occidentalis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Charcoal and colored crayon drawing of a black toucan with a large upturned beak and yellow throat, perched on a branch.

Aerial Toucan

Henry Keller, 1930