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Drawings & Sketches

77,670 works

Watercolor of a cluster of delicate green fern fronds with fan-shaped leaflets on a pale background.

Puccoon (Lithospermum ruderale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a white umbrella magnolia blossom with green leaves and a brown stem, painted by Mary Vaux Walcott in 1932.

Umbrella Tree (Magnolia tripetala)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1932

Watercolor of white Washington lily blooms with yellow stamens and green stems and leaves on a pale background.

Washington Lily (Lilium washingtonianum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1933

Charcoal portrait of a man with headphones, head bowed and eyes lowered, shaded in loose grey strokes.

Camilla with cameo

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a long coat, turned sideways with one hand gesturing, drawn over faint grid lines.

Standing Man, Gesturing

William Page, 1810

Watercolor of a branching bottle gentian plant with blue closed flowers, green leaves and reddish stems on cream paper.

Bottle Gentian (Gentiana saponaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1924

Watercolor of a blue-flowered Phacelia plant with green lobed leaves and buds on a white background.

Phacelia (Phacelia parryi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil drawing of a crowned woman with curly hair holding a lamp, wearing a long draped robe.

Wise Virgin. Copy after a 15th-century engraving by Martin Schongauer

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Watercolor of a shooting star plant with pink reflexed flowers on red stems above green basal leaves.

Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil sketch of a grotto opening with shaded rock walls, a wooden railing, and a river labeled in handwriting.

Grotto, Aldberg

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Oil study of a mustached man in a cream turban and khaki military uniform with a brass-buckled belt, against a dark backgroun

Sri Ganga Singh Bahadur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, 1880 - 1943. Statesman (Study for portrait in Statesman of the Grea…

James Guthrie, 1920

Watercolor of a thread leaf sundew plant with curling hairy stalks rising from a mound of moss on a pale background.

Thread Leaf Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Oil sketch of religious figures including bishops, a friar and a cardinal beneath a classical arch with cherubs above.

The Defenders of the Eucharist - modello.jpg

Peter Paul Rubens

Watercolor lunette study titled Security showing allegorical figures, urns, a cherub, and a shield within a decorative border

Security (study for lunette, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Tomb of El Drer, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Ink drawing of a carved stone capital with curling leaves and a spiral volute beneath a stepped abacus, on tan paper.

Copy of the shaft capital in the chancel of St Mary's Church in Krakow

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1889

Colored pencil design sketch of a tapering decorated column with scrollwork and chevron motifs, plus a side ornament study.

Perniön kirkon holvitekniikkaa. Tampereen tuomiokirkon maalauksia varten

Watercolor of a tin ware peddler in a top hat carrying a bucket and a back load of metal pots and pitchers.

The Ware Seller

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Watercolor of a Mexican Fremontia branch with a yellow flower, an orange-red flower, and lobed green leaves.

Mexican Fremontia (Fremontodendron mexicanum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926

Chalk drawing of a turbaned figure seated among clay pots with bearded onlookers and a block of verse text.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Loquacious Vessels

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Watercolor of a branch with white Virginia stewartia flowers, buds and green leaves against a cream background.

Virginia Stewartia (Stewartia malachodendron)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Grey wash drawing of an artillery demonstration on a heath, with cannon smoke, mounted officers and troops in formation.

Artillery production before Their Majesties and highest reigns on the Simmeringer Haide in the year 1828 ...

fraglich: Tobias Dyonis Raulino, 1828

Painting of a farmhouse among poplar trees, with laundry on a fence, a pond, and workers in a wheat field.

Long Island Homestead, Study from Nature

Andrew W. Warren, 1859

Chalk drawing of a bearded man pointing above two reclining women with vine leaves, a wine jug, and an inscribed verse panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Daughter of the Vine

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil and chalk sketch of snow-covered Mount Etna at sunrise with smoke rising from its peak and a town below.

Acireale

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Grey and olive painting of white waves breaking around dark rocks, with a distant headland under an overcast sky.

Coastal scene

Watercolor of purple vervain flowers with slender hairy stems and finely divided green leaves on a cream background.

Vervain (Verbena wrightii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1938

Ink drawing of cows and calves in a field beneath billowing black-outlined clouds, by Leo Gestel.

Vignette for biography of Gestel by Prof. W. van der Pluym

Leo Gestel, 1935

Horizontal drawing of swirling golden-edged clouds around a bright star against a black night sky.

Pilven veikko -runon välivinjetti

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Watercolor of Owl's Clover with yellow flowers and purple bracts on thin stems, painted against a pale cream background.

Owl's Clover (Orthocarpus erianthus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Ink drawing of a stylized male face with heavy dark contours and looping strokes on cream paper.

Vignette for book 'L'art Hollandais contemporain' by Paul Fierens

Leo Gestel, 1930

Black and white ink drawing of a stylized angular face with intense eyes, made as a book vignette by Leo Gestel in 1932.

Vignette for book 'L'art Hollandais contemporain' by Paul Fierens

Leo Gestel, 1932