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Drawings & Sketches

77,547 works

Charcoal and white chalk study of an extended hand with fingers spread, drawn on tan paper.

Sketch of a hand (recto); Composition studies for a play (?) (verso)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Painted mural study of a woman and child at a homestead and two men building a barbed wire fence on the prairie.

The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences (Mural Study for Interior Building, General Land Office, Was…

John Steuart Curry, 1940

Watercolor of wooden village houses with red roofs beside a canal, with a raised drawbridge on the left under a cloudy sky.

View of Ransdorp

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Pencil sketch of a village with a church tower across a flat meadow with grazing cattle, reeds and clouds.

View of Ransdorp

Hobbe Smith, 1872

Louis II Jagiellon; Sigismund I the Old

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884

Pencil sketch of a village by the water with a church tower, trees, a sailing boat and loose clouds overhead.

View of Durgerdam

Hobbe Smith, 1872

Watercolor of pentstemon stems with pale pink tubular flowers and slender green leaves on a plain background.

Pentstemon ambiguus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil and watercolour drawing of moored sailing boats at a quay, a church tower and gabled houses beside a grassy path.

View of Durgerdam

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Pencil drawing of a farmhouse complex beside a large tree, with two figures walking on a path across a grassy field.

View of the Buiksloterdijk

Anthonie van Teijn, 1873

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a ribbed cathedral dome with arched windows and a golden orb topped by a cross.

Ball of the Cathedral

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1860

Black silhouette cut-out of a rural landscape with trees, deer, cows, a horse rider, a house, and birds in the sky.

New Jersey Cut-Out

Susan Cray, 1843

Grey wash drawing of a river with a wooden house, moored boats, farm buildings and trees under a cloudy sky.

View of Buiksloot

Anthonie van Teijn, 1873

Pencil sketch on cream paper of a standing draped figure with bowed head and raised hand, study for a ceiling painting.

Study for figure of 10 pm in "The Hours" ceiling at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor and pencil drawing of wooden houses, a canal with a footbridge, and a large tree under a cloudy sky.

View of Nieuwendam

Anthonie van Teijn, 1873

Watercolor of a Dutch village street with gabled houses, a windmill, a canal and small boats under a cloudy sky.

View of the Omval

Gerrit Lamberts, 1817

Pencil drawing of a wooden riverside building and a moored rowboat on the Amstel under an overcast sky.

View of the Amstel

Everhardus Koster, 1859

Grey wash drawing of houseboats and trees along a canal, with a seated figure and a rowboat on the water.

View of the Ringvaart near the Schollenbrug

A. Goedkoop, 1850

Grey wash drawing of Moses descending a cloudy mountain while a crowd below kneels and raises hands in reverence.

Moses Descending from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments

Ferdinand Bol, 1664

Pen and brown ink drawing of a ruined stone tower with an arch, with a river and hills in the distance.

Ruin landscape

Painted study of a pair of child's high-button boots, one upright and one tipped to show the sole, with a tassel and buttons.

Child's Shoe

Alexander Anderson, 1940

Grey wash drawing of the Ponte Molle bridge over a river, with ruined towers, cattle, travelers and moored boats.

Ponte Molle

Pig and silhouettes

Watercolor of two white Matilija poppy blossoms with yellow centers, unopened buds, and gray-green leaves on stems.

Matilija Poppy (Romneya coulteri)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Oil sketch of a seated woman in green attending a standing child in a dim room with shelves, pots, and a red cloth.

A Boy being given Milk, sketch II

Karl Jansson, 1869

Watercolor of a pink-red flowering stem with fern-like green leaves against a pale beige background.

Pedicularis bracteosa

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat on horseback, with a partial study of a horse's hindquarters to the right.

Man on horseback

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor of salsify plant with purple flowers, a closed bud, and a fluffy white seed head on green stems.

Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of partridgeberry sprig with red berries and green leaves beside a feathery fern frond on tan paper.

Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Watercolor of purple mountain violet flowers and green leaves rising from a mound of soil on cream paper.

Purple Mountain Violet (Viola adunca)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Loose blue-toned painting of two robed figures on a rooftop beside a dark dome, with a pale horizon behind them.

Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Painting of a snowy farmyard with a haystack, wooden fence, evergreen trees, and chickens pecking in the snow.

Landscape Study

Kazimierz Sichulski, 1905

Pencil drawing of empty oyster shells on a plate at a dining table, with a wine glass, book and candlesticks around it.

Norwegische Fettaustern (leer)

Adolph Menzel, 1873