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Drawings & Sketches

77,595 works

Watercolor of a shaded tree-lined avenue with a crowd, horse riders, a carriage and townhouses in the background.

View in the Haarlemmerhout, with a crowd of people in front of the Heerenlogement

Hermanus van Brussel, 1773

Grey wash drawing of a balding man in a dark coat and white neckcloth, mounted on a bound album page with handwritten notes.

Self-portrait Jan Brandes

Jan Brandes, 1786

Oil study of an open green field, a dark tree line and distant hills under a sky of layered clouds.

Broad Landscape, Study

Werner Holmberg, 1855

Watercolor and pen drawing of the east side of Waihi Stockade, showing a timber palisade, gateposts, grassy slope and small b

Waihi Stockade, East side

George Sherriff

Sketch of a seated female nude with short dark hair, drawn in pink wash, ink outlines and red chalk on pale paper.

Female Nude, Sitting

Stylized pastel landscape with bare and autumn-colored trees on a curving hillside path, in muted blues, greys and olive gree

Untitled (NMG 1,264)

Will Henry Stevens, 1940

Pencil study sheet with four numbered sketches of women's heads in headdresses and a woman holding an infant.

Drawings of Compositions by Italian Renaissance Painters (Raphael, Perugino?)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Watercolor of a cholla cactus with a bright red flower in bloom and spiny green stems on a pale background.

Walkingstick Cholla (Opuntia imbricata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1934

Watercolor of a bedroom with two seated children on a wooden floor, a tall clock, a red bed, and rifles hung on the wall.

Bedroom with son Jantje and Bietja, an enslaved girl

Jan Brandes, 1784

Red chalk sketch of a standing helmeted female figure holding a spear and round shield on pale paper.

Scratched-out Minerva figure

Jakob Smits, 1865

Watercolor of two children playing with a toy horse on a wooden gallery floor, with red chairs and palm trees beyond.

Gallery with son Jantje and Bietja, an enslaved girl

Jan Brandes, 1784

Loose ink sketch of a standing woman with bowed head and simplified contours, faint pencil studies visible behind her figure.

Standing woman

Rik Wouters, 1892

Sheet with eight ink sketches of a cat in different resting and sleeping poses, with faint pencil lines beneath.

Sketch sheet with eight studies of a cat

Rik Wouters, 1892

Study for a Figure in a Composition of the Death of Sultan Selim

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Loose oil sketch of women in period dresses and a bearded man in a dark coat standing in a dim interior room.

Sketch to the Painting

Józef Mehoffer, 1895

Watercolor of two blue-violet iris flowers and a bud on green stems with long leaves against a pale background.

Western Blue Flag (Iris missouriensis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1933

Watercolor botanical study of small pink and magenta wildflowers on thin stems with feathery green leaves, on cream paper.

Gilia linanthus parviflorus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Painting of a tall pale-barked tree with green leaves in a sunlit forest clearing with receding trees behind.

A Study of a Tree

Achille Etna Michallon, 1816

Watercolor of a cluster of pink primrose flowers with yellow centers and green leaves on a cream background.

Primrose (Primula angustifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Ink and pencil sketch of a standing figure above a reclining woman, with a faint outline of another figure at right.

Sketch of a standing figure and a seated woman

Rik Wouters, 1892

Etching of a woman and an artist sketching a town with church spires below rolling hills and clouds.

Landscape with woman and artist drawing the lower-lying city

Adolphe Alexandre Dillens, 1831

Pencil drawing of a busy street with brick townhouses, pedestrians, a handcart and a street lamp.

View of the Vijgendam

Tinus de Jongh, 1895

Pencil drawing of a city square with gabled townhouses and pedestrians on a cobbled street, signed Tinus de Jongh 1911.

View of the Dam

Tinus de Jongh, 1911

Pencil study on grey paper of a kneeling draped man, a reaching arm, and a bearded head below.

Studies of a kneeling man, half-figure, arm and bust

Drawing of a tall funeral catafalque with statues, draped canopy, candelabra and a crowned tomb, inscribed with a 1751 memori

Catafalque for Empress Elisabeth Christine in Brussels, 1751

Ferdinandus Josephus de Rons, 1751

Pencil drawing of a nude woman reclining on her side, head resting on her arm, with simple contour lines on cream paper.

Untitled (reclined female figure)

George Ault, 1920

Ink line drawing of a nude woman leaning forward with eyes closed and one arm extended on cream paper.

Female Nude Leaning Over

Pencil and colored chalk study of a red heart ornament with curving scrolls and yellow wash on aged paper.

Heart motif. Study of an ornament for painted decoration of the Franciscan Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of two white forest anemone flowers on slender stems above toothed green leaves against a pale background.

Forest Anemone (Anemone deltoidea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Pen and wash ceiling design of Jupiter and Juno enthroned among clouds, with putti, musicians and winged figures.

Design for a ceiling with the marriage of Jupiter and Juno

Petrus Norbertus van Reysschoot, 1748

Chalk drawing of a male nude lying on his stomach across a stone block, with draped cloth beneath him.

Study of a male nude, lying on his stomach

Lambertus-Antonius Claessens, 1773

Watercolor of a sprig of blue columbine with purple flowers and green leaves on a pale background.

Blue Columbine (Aquilegia saximontana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937