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Drawings & Sketches

77,788 works

Grey wash drawing of a canal with a tall clock tower, an arched bridge, a carriage and gabled houses.

View of the Singel near the Jan Roodepoortstoren on the Torensluis

Jan Spaan, 1752

Watercolor of a canal with an arched brick bridge, a tall clock tower with a spire, boats, and trees under a pale sky.

View of the Singel near the Jan Roodepoortstoren on the Torensluis

Hendrik Gerrit ten Cate, 1829

Pencil drawing of an old Dutch canal with gabled brick houses, tiled roofs, a small bridge and reflections in the water.

View of the Grimburgwal

Tinus de Jongh, 1895

Pencil sketch of a galloping horse-drawn sleigh with a driver raising a whip and two passengers.

Sleigh ride with torches

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1882

Watercolor elevation of a red brick gabled building with an ornate doorway, plus pencil figure studies of men at right.

View of the entrance to the courtyard of the Oost-Indisch Huis

A. Goedkoop, 1850

Ink drawing of a seated woman with curled hair and ornate necklace, shown in white against a dark black background.

Seated woman

Karel de Nerée tot Babberich, 1904

Grey wash drawing of a church on fire beside a canal, with smoke filling the sky and crowds watching from the quays.

View of the fire of the Ronde Lutherse Kerk on 18 September 1822

Gerrit Lamberts, 1822

Ink drawing of a fantasy landscape with a winding river, a tall pine, rolling hills and a distant shoreline.

Fantasy landscape

Karel de Nerée tot Babberich, 1907

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a seated nude woman in a dark hat, with a faint standing figure sketched behind her.

Seated figure

Karel de Nerée tot Babberich, 1905

Drawing of a naval battle at a harbor tower, with sailing ships, soldiers on a pier and a row of labelled flags above.

Capture of Damiate, 1219

Pieter van Looy, 1880

Black boot stepping on a Dutch tricolor flag, with barbed wire and the title De Laars in white blackletter lettering.

The Boot

Henk Henriët, 1931

Pencil caricature of a huge uniformed man with a swastika armband and pistol towering over a small hunched figure in a coat.

Large National Socialist soldier who feels threatened by a walking small Jewish man

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of a giant eagle in soldier's helmet sitting on a tank, with an officer and marching figures below.

Eagle disguised as a soldier sits on a tank

Henk Henriët, 1933

Graphite portrait sketch of a woman with hair in a bun, looking toward the viewer on cream paper.

Portrait of an unknown woman

Henk Henriët, 1913

Watercolor of children with a yellow sailboat beached on a sandy shore beside a wooden building and calm water.

Summertime

Winslow Homer, 1880

Charcoal portrait of an older man with short hair, furrowed brow and serious expression, wearing an open-collared shirt.

Portrait of an older unknown man

Henk Henriët, 1913

Portrait of two unknown men with caps

Henk Henriët, 1913

Pencil drawing of two men seated at a table in a café interior with a bucket and eagle picture on the wall.

Two men sitting at a table in a café

Henk Henriët, 1913

Pencil sketch of a large scowling face in three-quarter view with loose looping hair strokes around the head.

Face of a giant with headgear

Henk Henriët, 1936

Pencil sketch of three men in conversation in a row, with a smaller head study below, on aged paper.

Three figures in a row in conversation with each other

Henk Henriët, 1936

Graphite sketch of a baby's head in a frame, with a stout laughing figure with outstretched arms and two small caricature hea

Baby in a frame and under several figures

Henk Henriët, 1936

Watercolor of a climbing clematis vine with two ruffled purple and white flowers, green leaves, and curling tendrils.

Curly Clematis (Clematis crispa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a purple cape and cream ruffled period dress with velvet bows and a lace-trimmed bonnet, faceless figure.

Dress

Mina Lowry, c. 1941

Pencil sketch of a huge face with tousled hair, with a row of tiny figures standing before it on grey paper.

Group of small figures standing in front of a giant's face

Henk Henriët, 1936

Painting of four draped women in a landscape, one hooded figure behind, gesturing toward a plant in a stone planter under a b

Allegorical Figures

René Piot, 1910

Watercolor of a Monterey cypress branch with green foliage, brown cones, and a green cone cluster on a pale background.

Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil sketch of two seated men in a tent, one smoking a pipe, with a jug and rifle beside them.

"From the Croats' camp" (near Vienna)

Carl Anton Goebel, 1849

Watercolor drawing of a man in a straw hat driving a horse-drawn cart carrying blue milk churns and pails.

The Butter and Milk Man

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Pencil sketch of figures in a columned interior with draped garments, the right side of the sheet left blank.

Historical scene in the interior

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Pastel portrait of a balding man with spectacles, mustache and dark suit on tan paper, with handwritten name inscription.

Ross G. Harrison, Director of Osborn Zoological Laboratory 1918-?

William Sergeant Kendall

Loose pencil and colored chalk sketch of a church spire and trees above a river, with reflections in the water.

Landscape

Maxime Maufra, 1910

Watercolor of a pink rose bud, a purple violet, and fern fronds on a pale background.

Pink Rose with Violet

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870