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Drawings & Sketches

77,595 works

Painting of a ruined castle on a rocky cliff above crashing sea waves under a hazy sky.

The sea king's castle

William Kinchela, 1897

Pencil sketch of ruined brick archways beside palm trees, with a riverbank and hills in the distance above.

Beni Berzi

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of a pitcher plant with tubular green leaves and a nodding pink and maroon flower on a curved stem.

Catesby Pitcherplant (Sarracenia catesaei)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1929

Watercolor of purple prairieclover stems with dense magenta and grey flower heads and feathery green leaves on pale paper.

Purple Prairieclover (Petalostemon purpureum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Pencil sketch of layered mountain ridges and cliffs above a small coastal town along a strait, with an empty pale sky.

Strait of Messina near Scylla

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Drawing of a bearded old man looking up at a starry night through an arched window, with a table of objects and printed verse

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Vain Questioning

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Watercolor of a Rocky Mountain Kalmia branch with pink flowers, red stalks and narrow green leaves on brown stems.

Rocky Mountain Kalmia (Kalmia microphylla)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1940

Pencil drawing of a lighthouse tower above a fortified sea wall, with small figures on rocks at the left.

Lighthouse, Civitavecchia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Ink wash drawing of a seated woman seen from behind beside a window with curtains and a dark chair.

Untitled (Seated Figure)

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Watercolour of a crowded harbour with sailing boats moored at a quay, figures on the wharf and brick buildings behind.

Old Billingsgate

George Henry Andrews

Pencil sketch sheet with soldiers, women's heads, a bearded man and a pitcher, drawn in loose overlapping studies.

Vase, spinning wheel, soldiers, women

Watercolor of a dogwood branch with clusters of red berries and broad green leaves on a white background.

Pacific Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a tall stem with several orange recurved lily flowers, spotted petals, buds and green leaves on pale background

Small Tiger Lily (Lilium parvum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a beaked hazelnut branch with serrated green leaves and fuzzy husks with long beaked tips.

Beaked Hazelnut (Corylus rostrata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1932

Watercolor of Rouen Cathedral's south portal with a rose window, spires, and a busy cobbled street of townspeople.

Cathedrale de Rouen, portail du midi. From 'Foreign Cathedrals'

Charles Wild, 1823

Charcoal drawing of a nude woman with arms raised behind her head, set against angular shaded forms.

Female Nude with Black Stockings

Pencil sketch of a man's face with rapid studies of horsemen and a leaping lion above, on tan paper.

Self-portrait during lion hunt

James Ensor, 1879

Watercolor of two Blue-Eyed Mary plant stems with white and violet flowers and green serrated leaves on pale paper.

Blue-Eyed Mary (Collinsia verna)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Watercolor of two stems of pink orchid blossoms and buds with long green leaves on a cream background.

Grass-pink Orchid (Limodorum tuberosum)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Pen and ink drawing of a rider spurring a rearing horse toward a mountain lion in a tree, with a hound dog nearby.

Spurring His Horse in Pursuit

Frederic Remington, 1878

A Syrian

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1850

Watercolor and pencil study of decorative polychrome patterns with scrolling foliage in diamond and triangular panels.

Copy of the polychrome of the Church of the Holy Cross in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1897

Pencil sketch of Paros island, Antiparos islands, and two sailing boats on calm water.

Paros

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Charcoal study of a bald, bearded man in a loose robe, looking downward in a pensive pose.

Study for the Disciple Peter

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Pencil sketch of city rooflines and chimneys on a sketchbook page, with a faint path and fence sketched below.

Pencil sketch of city rooflines from a Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Pencil sketch of a standing female nude holding drapery at her hip, drawn on tan paper.

Lucretia after a painting by Albrecht Dürer

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Painting of a standing nude youth with long dark hair and a white loincloth against a dark background.

Study of a Naked Youth

Anthony van Dyck, 1615

Loose pencil sketch of stylized figures above wavy lines on cream paper, titled Apokalypse, by Karl Wiener.

"Apocalypse" (pencil sketch)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Watercolor of a Monterey cypress branch with green foliage, brown mature cones, and green young cones on a pale background.

Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1936

Ink drawing of two seated figures in a room before a window with curtains, a chair between them, and a bare tree outside.

(Figures before Window)

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Watercolour of a veiled woman reading beside a Gothic stone tomb with an effigy in a cathedral interior.

In Salisbury Cathedral

Joseph Nash, 1834

Loose pencil sketch of soldiers with packs and rifles resting on the ground, by James Ensor.

Military

James Ensor, 1880