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Drawings & Sketches

77,595 works

Watercolor of white evening primrose blossoms with yellow stamens, pink buds and serrated green leaves on a pale background.

Evening Primrose (Pachyoplus hirsutus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Watercolor of sequoia cones and drooping green foliage on a branch against a pale background.

Sequoia (Sequoia gigantea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1890

Design drawing of a round footed vase with two dancing nude figures in relief, decorated with white dots and green glaze.

Vase with Dancing Figures

André Metthey, 1910

Charcoal drawing of a haloed recording angel with an open book, two winged attendants, and many hands reaching up from below.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Recording Angel

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pastel drawing of a man in a striped top hat and high-collared coat, with white smoke rising behind him.

Portrait of Kazimierz Lewandowski

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1898

Watercolor of a blue California lilac branch with dense flower clusters and large green leaves on a brown stem.

California Lilac (Ceanothus thyrsiflorus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Watercolor of a green strawberry cactus with spiny reddish stems and two pink flowers on a pale background.

Green Strawberry Cactus (Echinocereus viridiflorus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Watercolor and pencil design sheet with mosaic letter Q, letter O outline, rooster and cross friezes in red tones.

Kirjainikkunat ja ornamenttifriisejä. Luonnoksia Tampereen tuomiokirkon maalauksia varten

Pencil sketch of a craggy rock tower above low rocky coastline, with handwritten inscription near Marmelito dated 1890.

Rock Tower near Marmelito

Thomas Moran, 1890

Charcoal sketch of a seated man in a dark jacket reading a book, with a faint reflected face behind him.

Reading man

James Ensor, 1880

The Parting

Francis Cadell, 1915

Watercolor of hooded pitcherplant stems with yellow nodding flowers and tubular red-veined green pitchers on a pale backgroun

Hooded Pitcherplant (Sarracenia minor)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Pencil sketch of a building interior with large pipes suspended by chains, stone blocks, and a man in a hat at right.

How the Pipes Are Suspended

Joseph Pennell, 1920

Watercolor of a columbine plant with pale lilac nodding flowers, yellow stamens, buds, and lobed green leaves on white paper.

Aquilegia ecalcarata

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Watercolor of red primrose blossoms and buds on tall stems above broad green leaves.

Primrose (Primula parryi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Two cloaked figures on a rocky shore face a pale moon rising over a calm, hazy sea in a sepia drawing.

Moonrise

Caspar David Friedrich, 1835

Pencil sketch of market vendors selling grapes, with a balance scale, a seated woman and a man in a wide-brimmed hat.

Viinirypäleenmyyjät

Alexander Lauréus, 1817

Vincentia conspera (Tas) : Southern Cardinalfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1866

Drawing of a winged figure above a seated woman with her back turned, beside three stanzas of handwritten verse.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Awakening

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a standing draped female figure within an architectural setting on cream paper.

Study for "Joan of Arc" - left side of two sheets

Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879

Watercolor of a pinkshell azalea branch with pale pink flowers, green leaves and long stamens on a cream background.

Pinkshell Azalea (Azalea vaseyi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Sepia chalk portrait drawing of a man with short hair in three-quarter view, looking left against a plain background.

Robert Burns, 1759 - 1796. Poet

Archibald Skirving, 1796

Watercolor of a drooping California nutmeg branch with narrow green needles and three oval green fruits.

California Nutmeg (Tumion californicum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1929

Pencil sketch of a desert valley with hatched mountain ridges, rocky foreground and handwritten place notes below.

Woody Sheila 1st Encampment from Sinai Towards Akaba

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a tree trunk with textured bark and climbing vines, with handwritten inscription in lower right corner.

Westoe (tree study)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Torn tracing paper with a blue-outlined fern leaf design and faint pencil grid lines, a decorative study.

Fern leaf (fragment). Design for painted decoration of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of fleabane flowers with lavender petals, yellow centers, and green leaves on a white background.

Fleabane (Erigeron macranthus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1938

Watercolor of pink hedge bindweed flowers, buds, and green heart-shaped leaves on red stems against a cream background.

Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia (Convolvulus) sepium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1932

Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs, a waterfall, and trees on tan paper, titled Falls of Yellowstone by Thomas Moran.

Falls of Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1890

Watercolor of bogbean stems with white and pink fringed flowers and green leaves on a cream background.

Bogbean (Menyanthes trifoliata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Watercolor of a snowball fight in a city street with neoclassical columns, a carriage, and a church spire in the distance.

Snowballing Outside Edinburgh University

Samuel Bough, 1853

Pencil sketches of arched panels with mounted riders and a shield with a cross and floral emblem on torn tan paper.

Sota ja rauha, Nälkä ja kuolema, Elämänpuu. Luonnoksia Tampereen tuomiokirkon lasimaalauksiin