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Drawings & Sketches

77,602 works

Stylized seated figure in a hooded robe under a crescent moon, with German text in colored letters below.

Blindly we crouch at the edge of the earth...

Karl Wiener, 1935

Pencil sketch of a canal with a windmill, boats, figures on a towpath and a distant town skyline with church towers.

Tow-canal and dome of Caan on the canal from The Hague to Delft

Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, 1785

Watercolor of a shimmering blue and pink gown with fringe trim and bell sleeves, with a small line sketch of the dress beside

Gown

Lillian Causey, c. 1940

Watercolor still life of green pears with stems piled on a pale plate, with a twig and leaves rising above.

Green Pears

Charles Demuth, 1929

Brown ink wash drawing of a brooding duck on a nest among branches, with one pale egg visible at lower left.

Brooding duck

Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, 1785

Grey wash drawing of a wooded landscape with a small domed pavilion, strolling figures, and grazing cattle.

View of a dome in Son

Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, 1785

Grey wash drawing of a river landscape with a large tree, a rowing boat, figures on the bank and a distant church tower.

River landscape

Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, 1785

Ink and watercolor design of stylized yellow and grey fish with patterned scales among black zigzag waves on green.

Fish Design for a Ceramic Plate

Danish Holcha Krake, 1930

Grey wash drawing of armored Pallas with spear pointing beside a seated crowned woman holding scales, with cherubs above.

Pallas and Justice

Dirk van der Aa, 1767

Grey wash drawing of an interior with a seated draftsman and a standing man in a top hat beside a canopy bed.

Interior with two men including a draftsman

Christiaan Andriessen, 1784

Watercolor fashion illustration of a pink and green dress with brown train and fringe trim, with a pencil sketch above.

Dress

Marie Alain, c. 1942

Watercolor of a pink double hyacinth with arching green leaves standing on a patch of earth, signed Augustini 1762.

The pink hyacinth Rex Rubrorum

Jan Augustini, 1762

Watercolor of a blue hyacinth with a dense spike of pale blue flowers above long green leaves on a patch of ground.

The blue hyacinth Franciscus Primus

Jan Augustini, 1762

Watercolor of a fireweed stem with pink and magenta blossoms, buds and narrow green leaves on white paper.

Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Ink sketch of a seated man in a dark hat and jacket playing a guitar, drawn with quick hatched strokes on pale paper.

The Guitarist

Watercolor of a Showy Aster stem with lavender daisy-like flowers and green serrated leaves on a cream background.

Showy Aster (Aster conspicuus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pencil sketch on tan paper of standing male figures at top and a loose group of heads and shoulders below.

Sketches of figures in groups

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pencil drawing of log huts in a forest clearing among tall trees, signed Karl Iwanitsch, 1916.

"Log cabin in the forest" (on the northern theater of war)

Karl Iwanitsch, 1916

Grey wash drawing of an old man with a pipe and a smiling boy holding a basket of grapes at a stone ledge.

Vanha mies ja poika

Alexander Lauréus, 1800

Watercolor of a box huckleberry branch with pink bell-shaped flowers and green oval leaves on reddish stems.

Box Huckleberry (Gaylussacia brachycera)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pencil drawing of a man in a curled wig and embroidered coat, with smaller sketches of women and children beside him.

Jakub Ludwik Sobieski (François de Troy); Maria Casimire Sobieska (Marcin Altomonte)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Pencil drawing of a man's frontal face wearing a flat cap, with mustache and beard, on tan paper.

Self-portrait. Page 18 from the Ehrenpreis album

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Watercolor study of a striped boy's jacket seen from behind, with a detail of its collar and sleeves at upper right.

Boy's Jacket

Douglas Campbell, c. 1939

Watercolor of three lavender fleabane flowers with yellow centers on slender green stems with narrow leaves.

Showy Fleabane (Erigeron salsuginosus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Pen sketch of a seated man in kimono with a sword, a companion holding an umbrella, and Japanese annotations.

Scene from the Noh play "Suehirogari

Tsukioka Kogyo, 1898

Pencil sketch of two Noh theater figures in patterned costumes with raised staffs, with Japanese notes and fabric pattern stu

Scene from the Noh play Tsuchigumo

Tsukioka Kogyo, 1902

Ink sketch of two Noh theatre performers in costume with Japanese labels and circular motif diagrams.

Scene from the Noh play "Utsubozaru

Tsukioka Kogyo, 1899

Watercolor of two slender stems with small purple lobelia flowers and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Lobelia Kalmii

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man with head bowed, right hand pressed to his forehead, bare shoulders visible.

Fragment of an academy study: man with right hand on the forehead

Johan Braakensiek, 1868

Pencil sketch of two men in caps, half-length, one smiling and one glancing from behind, with a hand at lower right.

Two men, half-length

Johan Braakensiek, 1868

Pencil drawing of a park with a columnar memorial topped by a bust, with strollers in 19th-century dress.

Memorial for Prince Henry of the Netherlands in the Plantsoen on the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam

Johan Braakensiek, 1885

Grey wash drawing of two pickpockets robbing a sleeping man in a top hat on a bench, watched by a uniformed guard.

Two pickpockets rob a sleeping "Firmant

Johan Braakensiek