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Drawings & Sketches

77,788 works

Painted study of a blue and green bird wing with turquoise and dark feathers on a tan paper background.

Study of a Wing - Study of a Fgure of

Henryk Siemiradzki, 1899

Pen and wash drawing of agitated seamstresses and men in a room with a wall clock, busts and a seated official, 1848.

Agitation of the seamstress misses is dampened by the authorities. (...)

Johann Christian Schoeller, 1848

Pencil sketch of a dirt path through a wooded landscape with tall thin trees and shaded undergrowth.

Landscape in Hilversum

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1887

Pencil drawing of a shaded canal with trees, farm buildings and a small figure beside the water.

Houses by the water in Barendrecht

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1876

Charcoal drawing of a dark rural landscape with a path, trees, and distant houses under a heavy sky.

Landscape in Laaghalen

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1892

Charcoal sketch of a flat landscape with tall trees, a farmhouse on the right, and a path in the foreground.

Landscape in Hooghalen

Johannes Gijsbert Vogel, 1892

Watercolor of a sprig of small pink and magenta wildflowers with slender stems and feathery green leaves on cream paper.

Gilia linanthus parviflorus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of an American pasqueflower with a feathery purple seed head on a tall stem and fine green leaves.

American Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla ludoviciana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Bruges marketplace with a Gothic townhouse, women with baskets, umbrella stalls and a church spire.

Marketplace at Bruges

Samuel Prout, 1780

Watercolor of red-orange spotted lily blossoms with dark stamens and narrow green leaves on a tall stem.

Red Lily (Lilium montanum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Brown wash drawing of a wooded river landscape with cattle, a shepherd and dog, and distant mountains.

An Italianate Landscape with Shepherds

Friedrich Preller the Elder, 1831

Man and two crouching figures

Watercolor of a Strawberry Bush sprig with green leaves and small white flowers with yellow centers on pale paper.

Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of two stems of red larkspur with magenta spurred flowers and green buds on a pale background.

Red Larkspur (Delphinium nudicale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil and wash drawing of wild plants with broad leaves and spiny thistles growing in a grassy clump against a pale backgrou

Wild Plants near Birstein

Johann Christian Heerdt, 1835

Watercolor of a gentian plant with pale lavender flowers, buds and green leaves on a white background.

Gentian (Gentiana newberri)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1938

Watercolor of a turtlehead plant with narrow green leaves and clustered white and pink tubular flowers on a tall stem.

Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Mural study showing helmeted soldiers with a machine gun, a seated woman, and a crowd with raised arms in muted olive and red

War (mural study, War Department building, Washington, D.C.)

Kindred McLeary, 1940

Pencil and wash sketch of a steep craggy cliff with a small figure and stone structure at its base.

Study of Cliffs

Johann Christian Heerdt, 1835

Watercolor of a winding river valley with distant hills and a town, with a horse and cart and seated men in the foreground.

Melrose

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1831

Charcoal sketch of two boys resting on grass, one seated in a cap with his back turned, the other lying beside him.

Two boys in the grass

James Ensor, 1880

Watercolor of a drooping arborvitae branch with green scale-like foliage and clusters of small pale green cones.

Giant Arborvitae (Thuja plicata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Pencil sketch of an ornate helmet, breastplate, rapier hilt, and a riveted wooden stand on white paper.

Study of a Helmet, Breastplate, and Rapier

Watercolor of a spotted pipsissewa plant with white flowers on red stems above green serrated leaves.

Spotted Pipsissewa (Chimaphila maculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pencil drawing of a soft tree fern rising among tall forest trunks, with a path and undergrowth in the foreground.

Soft leaved tree fern, Upper Hutt

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1847

Watercolor of a blazing star stem with yellow flowers, buds, serrated green leaves and a dried seed pod on pale paper.

Blazing Star (Mentzelia laevicaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil sketch of two bearded male heads on tan paper, one wearing a hat, signed Ensor at lower right.

Double Self Portrait

James Ensor, 1900

Watercolor of a pink-flowered Western Cranesbill plant with lobed green leaves, buds and stems on a pale background.

Western Cranesbill (Geranium viscosissimum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Watercolor of a red pitcher plant bloom and green pitcher leaves on pale stems against a cream background.

Drummond Pitcherplant (Sarracenia drummondii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen and wash drawing of a veiled apparition pointing at a kneeling man while robed figures react in an arched room.

Untitled - Antonio Basoli

Watercolor of a pink wild rose with red buds and thorny stems beside two small blue blue-eyed grass flowers.

Wild Rose and Blue-eyed Grass (Rosa species and Sisyrinchium species)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Watercolor of a Gothic hall with coffered ceiling, stained glass, crowded galleries, and a central throne with ceremonial fig

The State Opening of Parliament in the Rebuilt House of Lords

Joseph Nash, 1847