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Drawings & Sketches

77,767 works

Pencil sketch of a hillside town of flat-roofed houses between mountains, with palm trees and an inscription at lower left.

Syra

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch on tan paper with four studies of men in various poses, including standing, kneeling, and lunging figures.

Studies of Men

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1847

Watercolor of a Purple Monkey-Flower sprig with magenta blossoms, yellow throats, green leaves, and a visible root on cream p

Purple Monkey-Flower (Mimulus bigelovii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Watercolor of a sailing boat with two figures beside a small rowing boat near rocky shore under cloudy sky.

Boats

A Brotherton, 1835

Charcoal sketch of a man in a dark hat embracing a woman, their faces close together, on cream paper.

Mother and Child

Pencil sketch of groups of mounted riders and horses across a loosely drawn landscape, with darker figures at right.

Group of horsemen

Pencil sketch of a commemorative book cover with lettering, dates 1424-1924, a coat of arms, and measurement lines.

File relating to the Memorial Book Hilversum 1424-1924

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1923

Art Nouveau pattern of cream and pale pink peonies with green leaves and sinuous black-outlined stems on a pastel ground.

Peonies

Alphonse Mucha, 1897

Watercolor of a peacock on a green perch, its tail feathers arching into an oval frame above a green ring base.

Peacock

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Watercolor of a red flower bouquet tied with blue and green ribbons looping into three empty oval cartouches.

Bunch of flowers above three cartouches

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Watercolor of a white-flowered saxifrage plant with a leafy green rosette and slender flowering stems on cream paper.

Saxifrage (Saxifraga caespitosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Red chalk drawing of Cupid leaning on an arch between two smoking oil lamps, with bow and arrows, in a framed panel design.

Cupid on round arch between two burning oil lamps

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Watercolor of a man beside a horse-drawn charcoal cart with painted signs, a wooden barrel at his feet.

The Charcoal Cart

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Man Seated in Hitchcock Chair

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1854

Pale blue watercolor of a snow-covered mountain peak above alpine ridges and dark conifer forest.

Summit of Dent du Midi from Bex, Switzerland

James Crowe Richmond, 1875

Pencil drawing of a wooden and steel toll bridge over rippling water, with pilings, small buildings and trees on the bank.

Toll Bridge, Indian Rocks, Florida

Walter Ronald Locke, 1930

Pencil sketch of a woman inhaling from a tube as a man in a top hat, a child, and a seated woman look on.

The Laughing Gas

William Glackens

Watercolor of pink five-petaled Sabbatia flowers with yellow centers, green stems, leaves and buds on a pale background.

Saltmarsh Rosegentian (Sabbatia stellaris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Painted study of a robed bearded figure on a hillside gesturing toward misty mountains, with a glowing light at left.

Study for Moses and the Burning Bush

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1902

Watercolor of cows resting and grazing in a meadow beside trees, with a gold ornamental frame on the right side of the page.

Vignette next to landscape with cows

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Watercolor of a pink and grey cockatoo with spread wings, chained to a wooden perch above a metal ring.

Chained cockatoo on perch

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Watercolor sketch of a leaping stag with large antlers inside a wooden frame, with pencil outlines of empty arched and oval p

Deer

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Watercolor on album page of blue cornflowers and yellow daisies with green leaves and wild grasses.

Cornflowers and yellow flowers

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Printed plan of the Amiens Palais de Justice and cathedral surroundings showing building footprints and streets.

Plan of the courthouse and the surroundings of Amiens Cathedral

Jean Herbault, 1866

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a cap by a wooden doorway, with a cooking pot and a head study above.

Untitled (Asian Dock Worker)

Walter Ronald Locke, 1940

Watercolour of a windswept coastal slope with leaning trees, a bay of water to the right, and a driftwood log in the foregrou

Coast near Paekakariki

Edward Barraud, 1911

Pencil drawing of a seated man in period dress with lace cuffs, shown in a shaded interior with a chair.

Seated Man in Eighteenth Century Dress

William Page, 1810

Watercolor of yellow bushpoppy flowers and buds on reddish stems with narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Bushpoppy (Dendromecon rigidum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Pencil sketch of a harbor with a sailing boat, a figure with a parasol, a rowboat and distant buildings.

Harbor view

Pencil sketch of a nude boy walking while carrying a long bundle across his shoulders on cream paper.

Köynnöstä olallaan kantava poika, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lehterimaalauksia varten. Toteuttamaton asentoaihe

Pastel portrait of a bandaged French soldier in a kepi and dark coat, drawn on green paper.

Un Poilu Blesse, 1915

Henri Gervex, 1910

Charcoal drawing of a bearded soldier with rifle standing in a rain-soaked field under falling rain.

Les Poilus

Louis Abel Truchet, 1910