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Drawings & Sketches

77,788 works

Watercolor drawing of a patterned dress with ruffled sleeves and full tiered skirt on a mannequin, with a fabric swatch.

Dress

Edith Miller, c. 1937

Pencil and wash drawing of Roman-style ruins, a tall tower, cypress trees and a classical column beside a river.

"Roman" view

Jens Petersen Lund, 1730-1793

Blue and red pencil sketch of lobed leaves and stems on aged tan paper, with Polish annotations and the date 1904.

Decorated Krakowiak dancers. Polychromy design for the Medical Society building in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Brown ink drawing of two women in long robes amid stylized swirling curves and knotwork, with Dutch text above.

Your beauty strikes me dumb: the dark singing

Willem Arondéus, 1914

Sepia Art Nouveau drawing of a seated veiled woman and a kneeling figure among ornamental curves and columns.

My sick heart found no medicine, my soul ascended

Willem Arondéus, 1914

Pencil drawing of a wooden waterside house with tiled roof and railing above reflective water, surrounded by trees.

View of Café Borneman on the Amstel

Tinus de Jongh, 1911

Grey wash drawing of a horse-drawn cart on a tree-lined road beside a windmill and low buildings under a cloudy sky.

View of inn Het Molentje on the Amsteldijk

Abraham Rademaker, 1685

Watercolor of a loblolly pine branch with long green needles and clusters of reddish-orange cones on a brown trunk.

Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pencil architectural drawing of a church front elevation with a tower and rose window beside an interior section.

Saint Gabriel's Church, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation and Section

Burnham and Root, c. 1886

Oil sketch of a nude woman reclining on a white divan with arms raised, against red drapery and a dark green background.

Study of Female Nude Reclining on a Divan

Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Illuminated initial Q with gold background showing a procession of children in colorful robes, a mountain and tree, framed by

Initial Q with a Procession of Children

Zanobi Strozzi, 1430

Watercolor study of a green oak leaf with tan damaged patches and a caterpillar shelter, labeled Fig. 14.

Oak Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Gerald H. Thayer

Pen and ink sketch of a ballet dancer in a tutu, one arm outstretched and the other on her hip, on pointed feet.

Miss Zucchi of the 'Eden'

Painted study of a striped tiered dress with bell sleeves and fringe trim, with a small pencil back-view sketch at upper righ

Dress

Herbert Marsh, c. 1936

Watercolor botanical study of a forget-me-not plant with blue flowers, green leaves and roots on a cream background.

Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis alpestris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of tassel cottongrass stems with fluffy white seed heads and slender green leaves on a pale background.

Tassel Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen and wash drawing of winged angels guiding robed figures across rocky ground beneath clouds and foliage.

Destruction of Sodom

Jean-Baptiste Corneille

Watercolor study of a pale pinesap plant with curled pale stems and drooping flower buds on a cream background.

Pale Pinesap (Hypopitys americana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a white-flowered saxifrage plant with green rosette leaves and a tall stem rising from brown soil.

Early Saxifrage (Saxifraga virginiensis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of two sailing ships on blue sea, one flying an American flag, the other burning with smoke rising.

Privateer Brig. "General Armstrong" burning a prize (starboard view), moderate sea

Worden Wood, 1929

Watercolor of bottle gentian stems with clustered blue-violet closed flowers and green leaves on a pale background.

Bottle Gentian (Gentiana saponaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two branches with oval green leaves and bright red berries on a pale background.

Red Comandra (Comandra livida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a wide-brimmed hat and sash, with plants at left and floor lines behind him.

Portrait of Konstanty Laszczka

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1894

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

Mexican Poppy (Eschscholtzia mexicana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Labrador tea branch with white flower clusters and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor sketch of purple and orange clouds at sunset against blue sky, with handwritten notes in pencil.

Cloud study. A sunset sky

Martinus Rørbye, 1841-1847

Pen and ink study of draped women and figures in a colonnaded classical interior, drawn on red-chalk grid paper.

St. Agatha refusing to worship idols, for a fresco in Sant'Agata dei Goti, Rome. Verso: Female figure and decorative…

Paolo Gismondi, 1660

Aerial architectural study of a domed academy complex with glass pavilions and formal gardens, drawn by Otto Wagner in 1910.

From 400 meters altitude / Study for the new building of the / Imperial-Royal Academy of Fine Arts / in Vienna on the…

Otto Wagner, 1910

Pen drawing of the round Drommedaris tower in Enkhuizen with an arched gate, scaffolding and gabled houses beside it.

Dromedary in Enkhuizen

Huib Luns, 1938

Charcoal portrait of a bearded man looking upward, with faint pencil figure studies around the lower edge.

Tyyppiharjoitelma

Pen drawing of the Drommedaris tower in Enkhuizen beside a canal, with a drawbridge, moored rowboats and a distant church spi

View of the Dromedary in Enkhuizen

Huib Luns, 1938

Watercolor of white trillium flowers with yellow centers and broad green whorled leaves on a pale background.

Large White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920