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Drawings & Sketches

77,502 works

Pen drawing of a narrow street with an archway, gabled houses and a notary sign, showing the Beurspoortje on the Vijgendam.

View of the inside of the Beurspoortje at the Vijgendam

Hermanus Petrus Schouten, 1757

Pencil drawing of a garden gate with a woman and young girl on steps, a lily pond, and flowering shrubs.

View of the entrance of the Rijksmuseum gardens on Jan Luijkenstraat

Henriëtte de Vries, 1916

Pencil and wash drawing of small pavilions, fences and figures among trees, with a larger scene on the right.

View of animal enclosures in Artis

Willem Hekking jr., 1838

Pencil and wash drawing of a garden with tall trees, a pavilion and strolling figures, with three small vignettes beside it.

View of the pheasantry in Artis

Willem Hekking jr., 1838

Pencil drawing of gentlemen in hats and a woman and child in an interior with leaded windows and drapery.

Regents of the Leper Asylum in Amsterdam

J. Dillhoff, 1700

Watercolor of a canal-side café with red roof, wooden waterwheel and tall trees, with a brick townhouse at right.

View of the Polderhuis on the Boerenwetering

Jean Charles Louis Landré, 1885

Pencil sketch of a reclining putto with loose overlapping construction lines on pale paper.

Reclining child (putto)

August Allebé, 1848

Watercolor of a pink orchid with white spotted lips on a tall stem above green leaves and moss, on a pale background.

Orchis (Orchis rotundifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pen and watercolour design for a clock with a rooster on top, a floral-wreathed dial, and two reclining putti at the base.

Design for a mantel clock

Charles-François Hutin, 1750

Grey wash drawing of a canal with trees, a boat of figures, a domed pavilion and a distant church tower.

View of the Plantage Muidergracht

Jan de Vlaming, 1756

Pencil design drawing of an ornate classical cabinet with figure reliefs, medallions and urn-shaped vases, by Dugourc, 1788.

Design for a jewelry cabinet for a queen

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, 1788

Pen drawing of a symmetrical chandelier design with scrolling acanthus arms, twisted central column and cherubs at base.

Design for a chandelier

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1835

Pencil sketches of a tiered tabletop centerpiece with draped female figures, cherubs and standing figures on pale paper.

Sketches for a centerpiece with male and female figures

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1835

Pen sketches of lobed cups and a rounded vessel on pale paper, with a lower study of a rounded form.

Three sketches, two of which for a lobed coupe

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1835

Watercolor of a highbush blueberry branch with clusters of white bell-shaped flowers and green leaves on a cream background.

Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen sketch of two robed figures in conversation before a faint architectural backdrop, with two small head studies at right.

Sketch for "The Reconciliation of the Merhcant Taylors' with the Skinners' Company, in the time of Richard the Third"…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1896

Pen drawing of several three-masted ships on a calm sea, sketched as studies across one sheet of paper.

A sheet of studies of three-masters in a calm sea

Willem van de Velde, 1693

Watercolor of purple and lilac violet flowers with lobed green leaves on a brown ground, against a cream background.

Southern Coast Violet (Viola septemloba)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a drooping giant arborvitae branch with green foliage and pale green cones on a cream background.

Giant Arborvitae (Thuja plicata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Design sheet with a large gold star ornament on blue and a smaller star motif on cream paper.

Star motifs. Design for the polychrome of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Painted bouquet of pink roses, yellow carnations and white blossoms on black, with a blue ribbon and insects.

Blumenbouquet mit Insekten

Barbara Regina Dietzsch, 1721

Watercolor of a flowering Chickasaw plum branch with white blossoms and green leaves on a cream background.

Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Loose oil study of a classical colonnade with Corinthian columns receding toward blue sky openings in muted browns and grays.

Architectural Study

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1871

Painted thistle with pink flower and spiny leaves on black background, with butterfly, moth, beetle, wasp and spider.

Stachel-Eselsdistel mit Insekten

Barbara Regina Dietzsch, 1721

Pencil and grey wash sketch of a horse and standing figure beside a dark tankard shape on pale paper.

Sketch of a tankard

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor winter landscape with snowy village houses, skaters on a frozen river, and a church spire under a cloudy sky.

Winterlandschaft mit Schlittschuhläufern

Johann Albrecht Dietzsch, 1735

Pen and ink sketch of two figures watching a cockfight, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Piirustus Jean-Léon Gérômen maalauksesta Kukkotappelu, "Un combat des coqs"

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1880

Watercolor botanical study of a white-flowered plant with slender stems and narrow leaves on a cream background.

Arenaria formosa

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of three heather sprigs with pink bell-shaped flowers and green leaves on a pale background.

Heather (Phyllodoce intermedia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a yellow violet with round green leaves and a bud rising from brown soil on white paper.

Viola orbiculata

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Charcoal drawing of mounted riders and horses beneath a large arched gateway with stone columns and figures on a paved courty

Circassian horsemen

Pencil sketches of mythological figures, including a winged cupid and a helmeted Mercury, with nude studies above.

Studien nach den Fresken Raffaels in der Villa Farnesina

Honoré Fragonard, 1751