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Drawings & Sketches

77,457 works

Watercolor of a showy milkweed stem with pink flower clusters, buds, and large green leaves on a cream background.

Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Tan and white chalk drawing of grapevines with grape clusters, vine leaves, morning glory flowers and tendrils on a dark grou

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Lining Paper

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a street crowd with women in hats, a child in front, and a flag above.

Group Scene

Jerome Myers, 1900

Watercolor of scarlet gilia stems with pink star-shaped and red tubular flowers and buds on a cream background.

Scarlet Gilia (Gilia aggregata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a trumpet creeper branch with red trumpet-shaped flowers, buds, and green leaves on cream paper.

Trumpet Creeper (Bignonia radicans)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926

Pencil drawing of a crowned heraldic eagle shield beside a knight tomb effigy holding a mace.

Sigismund Eagle (Jan Herburt); Tomb of Władysław

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Two women in blue gowns and flowered hats stand before green drapery in a softly painted interior.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Watercolour of a bay seen through framing trees and tree ferns, with white cliffs, hills, and a figure with a horse in the fo

Untitled (New Zealand seascape)

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1863

Watercolor of a branching Lotus plant with yellow and red-tipped pea-shaped flowers and slender green leaves on pale paper.

Lotus puberulus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Watercolor of a branch with red bell-shaped flowers and green oval leaves on a pale background.

Western Menziesia (Menziesia glabella)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1924

Watercolor of a flowering butterfly pea vine with purple blossoms, buds, and green leaves on a pale background.

Butterfly Pea (Clitoria mariana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1934

Miehen muotokuva

Severin Falkman, 1860

Charcoal drawing of a skull on stacked books beside a candlestick, with a panel of Rubaiyat verses and faint faces in the sky

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Theology

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen and ink sketch of a flat-topped limestone mountain above eroded desert ridges, with handwritten notes below.

Desert of El Tih

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolour of a river winding through a valley with trees, a hut by a fence, blue hills, and a figure in a boat.

Upper Hutt Valley

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Watercolor of a strawberry bush branch with green leaves and red seed capsules opening to show orange seeds.

Strawberry Bush-"Hearts Bustin' with Love" (Euonymus Americanus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of beargrass with a tall stalk of creamy white flowers, a reddish bud, and long narrow green leaves.

Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1924

Loose pencil sketch of an elderly bearded man in a cap and robe seated in an armchair beside a table.

The Goldsmith Jan Lutma

Pencil sketch of a flat landscape with a distant town, low hills on the right, and buildings in the lower left.

Town of Monselice

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of a mountain road along a rocky ravine with pine trees, inscribed Golden Gate Road, July 23rd.

Golden Gate Road

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a tiered church iconostasis with arched niches, religious figures, and ornate finials, with handwritten note

Fragment of the iconostasis from the church of the Holy Spirit in Rohatyn

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Watercolor of a golden fairy lantern stem with yellow nodding flowers, long green leaves and a green seed pod on pale paper.

Golden Fairy Lantern (Calochortus amabilis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1936

Charcoal drawing of a reclining female nude with arms raised overhead, sketched loosely on cream paper.

Liggende kvinnelig akt

Edvard Munch, 1912

Watercolor sketch of ruined Greek temple columns and fallen stones on pale ground, with small figures near the base.

Ruins of Greek Temple, Azani, Phrygia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of a bell tower with arched windows beside a study of steep rocky cliffs and handwritten labels.

Civitavecchia/Bay of Naples

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor drawing of a flathead fish in side view with annotated fin counts and handwritten labels.

Leptoscopus macropygus (NZ) : Estuarine stargazer

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Watercolor of two white turtlehead flower stems with serrated green leaves and unopened buds, by Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926.

Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926

Watercolor of an American chestnut branch with yellow-green catkins and long serrated leaves against a cream background.

American Chestnut (Castanea dentata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1932

Pencil sketches of two boys, head studies, and a small shoreline scene with a figure in a boat.

Harjoitelmia teokseen Leikkiviä poikia

Albert Edelfelt, 1884

Pencil sketch of a herder with cows resting in a landscape beside a tree and a wooden fence.

Shepherds with cows

Leonaert Bramer, 1642

Pencil sketch of a hunting party with dogs and horses beneath a large tree in an open landscape.

Hunting party

Leonaert Bramer, 1642

Pencil panoramic sketch of Benmore Station with homestead buildings, rolling hills and mountains, annotated by hand.

Benmore Station (Lake Ohau)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866