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Drawings & Sketches

77,595 works

Watercolor drawing of a green grapevine with lobed leaves and red grape clusters on a quilted background.

Quilt - Grape Pattern

Cora Parker, c. 1939

British Manufactory; A Sketch

British Manufactory; A Sketch

Benjamin West, 1791

Pen and ink drawing of a reclining armoured knight, three nude women, a fountain and a distant castle and town.

The judgment of Paris

Watercolor of a branch of ripe persimmons with reddish-orange fruit and dark calyces hanging from brown twigs.

Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen drawing of a haloed saint in a rocky cave with a deer, kneeling figures and small background scenes.

Scenes from the life of St. Giles

Jan Gossaert, 1493

Ink and wash drawing of a large man in a long coat swinging a bucket at two boys beside a wooden table.

Man Swinging Bucket at Two Boys (recto); Two Men Behind a Wall (verso)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor of a patchwork quilt with cube-pattern blocks in red, blue, and printed white fabrics, with visible quilting stitc

Patchwork Quilt

Charles Goodwin, 1940

Pen drawing of a seated emperor on a throne in an ornate hall, with a crowd of figures approaching from the left.

Emperor Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl

Jan Gossaert, 1503

Decorated Initial with Grotesque in Profile from a Choir Book

Unknown artist, early 15th century

Watercolor of a Mexican Fremontia branch with a yellow flower, an orange-red bloom, and lobed green leaves.

Mexican Fremontia (Fremontodendron mexicanum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a standing female nude with one arm extended, by Auguste Rodin.

Standing Female Nude, Left Arm Extended

Pencil sketch of the Houses of Parliament and clock tower beside the Thames, with boats and a bridge in the misty distance.

View of the Houses of Parliament in London

Norbert Goeneutte, 1888

Pencil and chalk design study with green and blue biomorphic shapes on a yellow ground and a leaf motif at upper right.

Study of an ornament for the polychrome of the Franciscan Church in Kraków - carpet motif

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Pen and watercolor drawing of a thatched farmhouse with a chimney beside a pond, framed by trees and shrubs.

Farm with thatched roof

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Grey wash drawing of a thatched farmhouse beside a tree-lined dirt road with a distant cottage under open sky.

Farms at Yde, Drenthe

Egbert van Drielst, 1779

Pale watercolor landscape of a meadow with trees and a small farmhouse beneath a lightly clouded sky.

Landscape in the vicinity of Wageningen

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Watercolor of red canna lily blooms and a small star-shaped cypress vine flower on a green stem with feathery foliage.

Cannas and Cypress Vine (Canna species and Ipomoea quamoclit)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Grey wash drawing of a thatched farmhouse among trees beside a sandy road under an open sky.

Farm at Midlaren in Drenthe

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a thatched farmhouse with half-timbered walls on wooden stilts, beside a brick wall and fire

Farm with a wall

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Grey wash drawing of a windmill beside a canal, with reeds, trees and a thatched cottage under a cloudy sky.

The Kromme Mijdrecht with a wipmolen

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Engraved oval bust portrait of Catherine de Medici in a ruff and headdress, with French verse inscribed below.

Scene in Hell?

George Romney, 1792

Pen and watercolour drawing of a seated woman holding a monstrance beside an orange tree in an urn.

Design for a title page with a woman with a monstrance

Abraham van Strij, 1763

Grey wash drawing of thatched farmhouses among trees, with a small wooden footbridge over a ditch in the foreground.

Farms near Beilen in Drenthe

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Watercolor of a whortleberry branch with green leaves, red buds, and one dark berry on cream paper.

Grouse Whortleberry (Vaccinum scoparium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a thatched farmhouse with a wooden shed and fence, framed by large trees under a cloudy sky.

Farm at Eext, Drenthe

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Watercolor landscape of a thatched hut among trees, with two figures resting on a path and a fenced meadow beyond.

Figures near a hut in the Naarder Houd

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Watercolor landscape of a sandy road past thatched barns and tall trees, with figures, a dog and a cart under a cloudy sky.

Landscape near Eext, Drenthe

Egbert van Drielst, 1806

Grey wash drawing of a canal lined with large trees, wooden sheds, moored boats, a figure in a rowboat and ducks.

Houses and barn by water

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Ink and wash sketch of a tall man with a cane walking past two playful boys on tan paper.

Man Walking with Two Boys

Edwin Austin Abbey

Grey wash drawing of ruined brick church walls and arches in an open field, with trees on the left and a stork nest on a towe

Ruin of Rijnsburg

Egbert van Drielst, 1803

Watercolor of a misty river marsh lined with trees and hills under a warm hazy sky.

Smoke from the City

Robert Burns Wilson, 1910

Ink drawing of a rider on a galloping horse beside a small head study, with the inscription Leonard de Vinci.

Rider on a running horse and the head of a man. Copies of a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887