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Drawings & Sketches

77,767 works

Pencil sketch of the Tarnów town hall with a tall corner tower, arched windows, and people and a cart in the street.

Town hall in Tarnów

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1889

Watercolor of a cholla cactus branch with several yellow flowers and spiny green segments on a plain background.

Cholla Opuntia whipplei

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1938

Pencil sketch of ships in churning water and smoke, inscribed with the destruction of the Housatonic by a torpedo near Charle

Destruction of Housatonic by a rebel torpedo. Feb. of 17 1864. Charleston

William Waud, 1864

Pastel still life of pink and yellow roses in a dark round vase on a green draped cloth.

Roses

William Merritt Chase, 1883

Watercolor of branching stems with pink five-petaled centaurium flowers, yellow centers, and green buds on cream paper.

Pink Centaurium (Centaurium venustum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Ink and wash sketch of a seated woman in a headwrap leaning on cushions, with a handwritten title above and a date at lower r

Migraine

Ilya Repin, 1902

Watercolor of a red-bracted Tillandsia bromeliad with violet flowers among long green arching leaves.

Quill-Leaf Tillandsia (Tillandsia fasciculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen and ink drawing of a steep rocky hillside with dead and fallen trees, signed by Adolphe Viollet-le-Duc.

A Rocky Hillside with Dead and Dying Trees

Adolphe Viollet-le-Duc

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a wide hat beside two men in caps, one smoking, against hatched background strokes.

Lady and two gentlemen

Painting of a gilded horse-tail ensign and a jewelled nose-band on a dark background, with a small ornate panel above.

Study of a Turkish Horse-Tail Ensign and Nose-Band

Stanisław Chlebowski

Pen drawing of a large letter V in a shield, with a stone fortress behind it and waves breaking on rocks below.

Viapori-runon alkukirjain V

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Watercolor of orange Mexican poppies with buds and feathery gray-green leaves on a pale background.

Mexican Poppy (Eschscholtzia mexicana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Watercolor of a green leaf with camouflaged caterpillars along its edge and brown feeding damage on a dark background.

Smaller Spotted Beach Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Emma Beach Thayer

Watercolor of tall autumn trees in red and gold foliage above grazing cattle, a fence, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Fall Landscape

John Alexander MacDougall

Charcoal drawing of a wooden bridge over an estuary with ship masts on the right under a grey sky.

Bridge over an Estuary

Charles-François Daubigny

Pencil sketch sheet with a harnessed horse in the centre and many quick studies of standing and walking figures.

Horse and silhouettes

Oil study of two blond boys on a sunlit beach, one bending to the shallow water holding a stick, the other standing nearby.

Boys Playing on the Shore, study

Albert Edelfelt, 1884

Watercolor of a white anemone flower with yellow stamens and green serrated leaves on a pale background.

Anemone canadensis

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Pen drawing of a man with wavy shoulder-length hair in three-quarter view, with handwritten inscriptions below.

Portrait of Taco Scheltema I

Johan Philip van der Kellen, 1891

Charcoal drawing of a large bare tree with spreading branches above a fence and a path, by Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1900.

Landscape with trees in Santpoort

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1900

Abstract watercolor of overlapping geometric shapes, arcs, and striped forms in muted browns, grays, and yellows.

No. 2

Will Henry Stevens, 1930

Charcoal drawing of a woodland pond with trees, reeds and shrubs on a grey sheet, by Charles-François Daubigny, 1870.

A Woodland Pond

Charles-François Daubigny, 1870

Watercolor of a branching owl-clover plant with clusters of pink flower bracts and narrow green leaves on cream paper.

Owl-clover (Orthocarpus tenuifolius)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Colored drawing of a dusk scene with a rising orange moon behind utility poles, a street lamp, and a fenced path.

Rising Moon

Karl Wiener, 1924

Charcoal landscape drawing of dark trees at left, a lone tree at right, and a pale dusky sky above a field.

Landscape in Borger

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1890

Pencil drawing of a wooded landscape with a large leaning tree, a stream and rocks in the foreground.

Landscape in Delden

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1886

Pencil sketch of a leafless tree with spreading branches and low shrubs and grass in the foreground on pale paper.

Study sheet with trees and vegetation

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1886

Pencil drawing of a flat landscape with trees on the left, a pale stream in the foreground, and a low horizon.

Landscape in Wolfheze

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1872

Charcoal sketch of a windmill with sails beside a waterway, with reflections in the water and a small boat in the foreground.

Landscape with windmill in Zaandam

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1895

Watercolour of coastal dunes with purple and rust scrub, a sandy path, and green sea under a pale sky.

Landscape, New Brighton

Margaret Stoddart

Sepia drawing of windswept trees, goats and a shepherd on a headland above a bay under stormy clouds.

Italian Coastal Landscape with a Thunderstorm

Friedrich Preller the Elder, 1828

Pastel drawing of a sleeping child with brown hair, resting on a pillow under striped bedding with bold blue outlines.

Mietek sleeping

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1902