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Drawings & Sketches

77,670 works

Pencil sketch of an ancient Egyptian boat with sail and rowers above a king's chair with lion-headed armrest.

Boat of Ancient Egyptians from the Tombs/King's Chair

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Bust of a man wearing a cocked hat, in profile to the left

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a red-hulled sailboat on calm blue water, on a sketchbook page.

Sailboat

Watercolor of white anemone flowers with yellow centers and green leaves on tall stems, with pale blue blossoms at lower left

Anemone (Anemone zephyra)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Watercolor of a violet plant with purple flowers and scalloped green leaves on a cream background.

Butterfly Violet (Viola papilionacea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Grey chalk drawing study of a sleeve with heavy folds and a hand emerging at left, with white highlights.

Study of a sleeve with a hand

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Charcoal and chalk study of a muscular arm ending in a clenched hand, set against gray paper with draped cloth.

Study of an arm

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Black chalk study of a left bare foot and ankle on grey paper, with drapery at upper left.

Study of a left foot

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Pencil study of a right foot seen from the front, toes shaded softly against a grey ground, with dark drapery at the sides.

Study of a right foot, seen from the front

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Pencil drawing of Loki kneeling beside the sleeping Thor under an oak tree, with two goats resting nearby.

Loke varastaa vasaran nukkuvalta Torilta

Carl Eneas Sjöstrand

Ink and wash sketch of six men skating in various poses, wearing hats and long coats.

Studies of an ice-skating man

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Watercolor of a blue alpine lake in a valley with snowy mountains and a braided stream in the foreground.

Lake Tennyson

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling woman in a turban holding a lily and crown of thorns beside an urn.

Samian Sibyl

Claude Vignon, c. 1630

Oval sketch of an allegory with a laurel-crowned seated woman, an eagle, cherubs and a glowing sun disk.

Esquisse pour le plafond du ministère des Finances : L'Empire couronnant les arts (Commande pour la décoration de l'a…

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry

Watercolor of a dark maroon trillium flower on a long green stem with large pleated leaves above, on white paper.

Sweet Trillium (Trillium vasyi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of an elderly bearded man in a robe reading a large book in a green armchair in a room with portraits.

Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881. Historian and essayist

Helen Allingham, 1879

Grey pencil drawing of a mountain landscape with rolling hills, distant peaks and clouds under a pale sky.

Mountain landscape in Italy

Hendrik Voogd, 1788

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with figure studies, walking people, a man beside an animal, and a tent at upper right.

Study sheet with ice-skating couples

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Ink and wash sketch sheet with four standing men in top hats and long coats, drawn in loose brown strokes.

Study sheet with ice-skating man

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

Pen and wash sketch of several men swinging long scythes or tools in loose, active poses on a pale sheet.

Haymakers

Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770

James Hillhouse

James Sharples, 1790

Watercolor of a farmhouse with laundry on a line behind trees beside a river, with a small bridge in the foreground.

Back of George's farm, Grendon

Edmund Niemann, 1847

Drawing of a nude woman beside a bearded man reading a book, with calligraphic Rubáiyát verses on a panel in the lower right.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Spring

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Red chalk drawing of a horse's hind legs and haunch with white highlights on tan paper.

The Hind Legs of a Horse

Charles Le Brun, n.d.

Watercolor of a plant with slender green stems and round clusters of orange flowers on a pale background.

Orange Polygala (Polygala lutea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Scribble of ornament?

Watercolor of two pink and white spotted orchid stems rising from broad green leaves on a pale background.

Roundleaf Orchis (Orchis rotundifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Woman in Side Profile

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a portrait bust wearing a ruff collar, curled hair and a chain necklace.

Portrait of a Lady

Palma il Giovane, 1610

Watercolor study of a seated golden-robed woman above two fishermen hauling a net, framed with garlands and a FISHERY plaque.

Fishery (study for panel, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Watercolor of rugged cliffs above a rocky coast with a foaming channel and small figures on the clifftop.

Ras-El-Abiad, Coast of Syria

David Roberts, 1839

Watercolor of purple gentian flowers and buds on slender green stems against a pale background.

Gentian (Gentiana holopetala)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1936