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Drawings & Sketches

77,502 works

Portrait of a boy

Benoit Taurel, 1804

Watercolor landscape of large trees beside a stream, with a meadow and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Tall trees along which a stream runs

Augustin Taurel, 1838

Watercolor of pink hedysarum flowering stems with green pinnate leaves on a pale background.

Pink Hedysarum (Hedysarum americanum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Eight caricatural heads

Johannes Tavenraat, 1868

Pencil drawing of a cottage on a dike near a distant town, with tall trees at left and a figure standing at right.

Hut on the dike near Enkhuizen

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pencil drawing of a rural yard with a half-timbered house, wooden gate, two seated figures, fence and trees.

Country houses

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pencil drawing of a stone gateway with arched passage, ornate pediment and a small figure walking through, by Willem Bastiaan

Staverse little gate at Enkhuizen

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pencil sketchbook page with a bent figure in layered clothing and a standing figure in a long coat and tall hat.

Sketches of figures

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Pencil sketch of a street barricade of cobblestones and carts before a Gothic church, with men and a flag.

"Barricade at the Alumnat on Stephansplatz. / erected on May 26th, 1848." (Preliminary drawing)

Eduard Ritter, 1848

Charcoal and white chalk study of a nude male figure with raised arms on blue-grey paper.

Study for figure of 12 noon in "The Hours," mural at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Sargent)

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1902

Pen and watercolor drawing of a family resting under trees in an Arcadian landscape with a distant classical building.

A happy Arcadian Family

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor design sheet showing decorative wall panels, green chairs, drapery swags and dimension notes for a dining room.

Design for decoration on three walls of the dining room of G. ten Hoopen

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor of red cardinal flowers, grasses, red berries and a dragonfly above water.

Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Pencil drawing of a sailing boat in the foreground with moored ships and low hills across calm water.

Sailing ship with ships at anchor in the background

Willem Bastiaan Tholen, 1870

Pen and watercolor design for a room wall with blue panels, classical statues, garlands, and a fireplace at right.

Design for a room wall

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor design of a decorated interior wall with pilasters, a central fireplace and a painted frieze.

Design for wallpaper painting

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and watercolor design for a room wall with a central river landscape and boat, flanked by garland ornaments.

Design for room wall

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor of a war-damaged street with a red tram, barricades, rubble, smoke, and a domed building in ruins.

Barricades near the Secession Building on April 12, 1945

Karl Hornstein, 1946

Vertical watercolor drawing of trees over a meadow with a pale cloud, a design for a Dutch landscape wall painting.

Design for wall painting with Dutch landscape

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor drawing of a Dutch river landscape with tall trees, a farmhouse, a moored rowboat and reeds under a cloudy sky.

Design for wallpaper painting with Dutch landscape

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Watercolor of white mistmaiden flowers with green lobed leaves growing from a brown mound on cream paper.

Mistmaiden (Romanzoffia sitchensis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of two pansies, one dark purple and one lilac with yellow, with green ivy leaves on a cream background.

Untitled (Pansies and Ivy)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Pen and wash design for a wall with a fireplace, a classical medallion and two landscape panels with trees, a bridge and figu

Design for room wall with fireplace with grisaille with medallion

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Design drawing of a room wall with two landscape panels and a central fireplace with an ornate overmantel scene.

Design for room wall with chimneypiece of the Baptism of the eunuch

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1752

Pen and wash drawing of two men at open doors viewing a winged statue of Time with a scythe, with Dutch verses below.

Two men look at a statue of Time

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Pencil sketch of a tree with figures below and an all-seeing eye with rays above, beside handwritten Dutch text.

Group of people around a tree, beneath the All-Seeing Eye

Jurriaan Andriessen, 1806

Painting of a pink roseate spoonbill wading among green marsh grasses under a pink sky, by Abbott Handerson Thayer.

Roseate Spoonbill, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Watercolor drawing of a beaded drawstring bag with floral motifs, zigzag border, white bead fringe and pink ribbon ties.

Bag

Lillian Causey, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a slender agoseris plant with reddish stems, white seed heads, and narrow green leaves on cream paper.

Slender Agoseris (Agoseris gracilens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Painted study of a brown beaded bag with metal clasps, geometric bead patterns, and chain fringe with drop tassels.

Bag

William High, c. 1936

Watercolor of red-roofed village houses beneath palm trees with soft blue hills behind them.

Village Street, Dominica

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1920

Pencil sketch of a man's head with open mouth and raised hand, with a second head in light outline at lower right.

Two heads and a hand

James Ensor, 1886