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Drawings & Sketches

77,788 works

Pastel self-portrait of a man with brown hair, blue coat and white cravat, turned three-quarters toward the viewer.

Allan Ramsay, 1713 - 1784. Artist (Self-portrait)

Allan Ramsay?, 1756

Pen and ink sketch in a sketchbook of a reclining woman, standing figures and a winged figure in a loose allegorical composit

Truth and delusion. Composition sketch to allegorical scene

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Watercolor of heather moorland, a lake and misty mountains, with sheep on a dirt path in the foreground.

Moors at Pen-Craig, North Wales

James Curnock, 1871

Watercolor of a bladder campion stem with white flowers, pink-purple buds and green leaves on a pale background.

Bladder Campion (Silene latifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a yaupon holly branch with red berries and green serrated leaves on a pale background.

Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926

Watercolor of a tall red snow plant stalk with clusters of bell-shaped blossoms and curling reddish leaves at its base.

Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Ink and crayon sketch of a seated man in glasses and suit in an armchair, with faint pencil figure studies at left.

Sketch of Cornelius Kauders (Peter During)

Gertrud Kauders, 1931

Watercolor of a tuliptree branch with a yellow and orange blossom, green buds and large lobed leaves on white paper.

Tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a young boy in a blue suit with a ruffled collar, holding a pistol, walking across a green hillside.

Portrait of Edward Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1820

Watercolor of two purple iris flowers with green leaves and a small closed bud on a pale background.

Iris (Iris species)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1939

Watercolor botanical study of Wood Merrybells with drooping yellow flowers and green clasping leaves on a cream background.

Wood Merrybells (Uvularia perfoliata)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Watercolor of a coastal village with houses, trees, and sailboats on blue water, painted in loose colorful brushstrokes.

New England Coastal Village

Maurice Prendergast, 1910

Watercolor of two stems of red-pink penstemon flowers with buds and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Parry's Penstemon (Penstemon parryi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen drawing of a horizontal border with laurel garlands looped in swags and tied with ribbon bows.

Numero viisitoista Stolt-runon alkuvinjetti, originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitukseen

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Portrait of Elizabeth Sweitzer Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1820

Charcoal sketch of two draft horses in a field with a standing figure at right and loose tree foliage above.

A Zeeland team of horses

Watercolor of a yellow wake-robin trillium with three mottled green leaves on a single upright stem against a pale background

Wake-Robin (Trillium underwoodii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Watercolor of a branch with white blossoms, pink buds and serrated green leaves on a pale background.

Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of an ocotillo branch with red tubular flowers, yellow stamens, buds and green leaves on a pale background.

Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor sketch of a crucified bearded man with bowed head against a dark teal background and brown wooden cross.

Crucifixion, Sketch for thr Altarpiece in the Mikkeli Church

Pekka Halonen, 1896

Watercolor of a steaming geyser pool with yellow terraces, pine trees on the right, and misty mountains in the distance.

Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1870

Watercolor of white bearpoppy flowers, buds and hairy grey-green leaves on a pale background.

Bearpoppy (Arctomecon merriami)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Pastel portrait of a man with round glasses, slicked-back hair, blue shirt and striped tie against a warm hatched background.

Portrait of Andre Goupil-Vardon

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1934

Watercolor of a blue bell-shaped alpine harebell flower with green leaves and stem on a cream background.

Alpine Harebell (Campanula lasiocarpa)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Watercolor of rolling plains, rocky bluffs and a distant mountain with a mounted rider and figures crossing the grassland.

The Wichita Mountains from Medicine Bluff, Indian Territory

Hermann Stieffel, 1860

Watercolor of two brown stems with clusters of magenta berries on a cream background.

Beauty Berry (Callicarpa americana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Pencil drawing of a woman and child before a country house with chimneys, a vine-covered gate and a wheelbarrow.

A woman with child on the background of a country house

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Watercolor and ink architectural drawing of a tomb with an obelisk elevation, a crypt section with sarcophagus, and a floor p

Memorial monument over Peter Tutein and his wife

Nicolai Abildgaard, 1797-1800

Painted study of ferns, clover and wild flowering plants on a warm ochre background, signed Adolf Senff, Rom, 1828.

A Study of Plants

Adolf Senff, 1828

Watercolor of a buff monkeyflower stem with orange tubular blossoms and green serrated leaves on cream paper.

Buff Monkeyflower (Diplacus longiflorus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926

Watercolor fashion design of a woman in a lilac gown with ruffled collar and puffed sleeves, with a floral fabric swatch.

Dress

Lillian Causey, c. 1936

Watercolor of a spotted pipsissewa plant with white flowers, reddish stems and striped green leaves on a cream background.

Spotted Pipsissewa (Chimaphila maculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1918