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Drawings & Sketches

77,658 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of three classical women spinning thread, with a Latin inscription tablet at lower right.

The Three Fates

Felice Giani, 1810/20

Watercolor of two stems of blue larkspur with violet-blue flowers and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Blue Larkspur (Delphinium nuttallianum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Pencil drawing of a rocky lake shore with pine trees and small figures with a flag on a hilltop.

Pyynikinharju Ridge, original drawing for Finland Depicted in Drawings

Adolf Wilhelm Lindeström, 1840

Brown ink and wash drawing of a birth scene with a newborn over a basin, attendants, a canopied bed, and winged putti.

Birth of the Virgin

Giuseppe Cades, c. 1784

Watercolor of a Clematis viorna vine with dark purple nodding buds and green leaves on a pale background.

Leather Flower (Clematis viorna)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded pilgrim in a shell-decorated hat, cloak, and staff, with a gourd at his side.

Saint Roch

called Il Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, n.d.

Painting of a pink and lavender sunset sky over a dark silhouetted treeline and landscape.

Sunrise or Sunset, study for book, Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Brown ink sketch of a crowd and mounted rider under a classical stone arch, with ships in the distance and handwritten letter

Design of the Title Page to the Work by Julius Caesar

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Watercolour drawing of a lecture with a man touching a skull under a floating pink balloon before a seated audience.

Intermezzo from the comedy 'De min in het Lazarushuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1807

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing man in a long coat and tall boots holding a top hat, with a handwritten note below.

Christiaan Andriessen takes off his hat for his friends

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Watercolor of a yellow Mariposa lily stem with an open bloom, closed buds, a seed pod, and narrow green leaves.

Goldenbowl Mariposa (Calochortus claratus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Grey wash drawing of women with a parasol and a man in a top hat crossing a dim passage toward a bright doorway.

Christiaan Andriessen and his family leave De Fransche Tuin at one o'clock at night

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Sepia wash drawing of a schoolroom with young women in period gowns seated at benches and a man in a long coat by tall window

Pupils of Miss Zeydelaar's girls' boarding school wish master Christiaan Andriessen a pleasant fair

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Grey wash drawing of visitors entering a fairground tent, with a performer in a pointed hat on a balcony.

Visitors stream into a fair tent

Christiaan Andriessen, 1808

Watercolor fashion study of a long-sleeved blue gown with cream skirt, lace trim and draped shawl, with pencil sketch at righ

Dress

Arthur Sander, 1935/1942

Watercolor of Oconee-bells with white fringed flowers, yellow centers and rounded green leaves on a pale background.

Oconee-Bells (Shortia galacifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor interior with figures in shadow watching a woman in white at a glowing doorway beneath a chandelier.

Poffertjes stall at the fair with a man with a barrel organ

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Night street scene of a vendor with a wheelbarrow of shells, lit by a candle lantern, in brown wash drawing.

Street vendor selling window ashes from his wheelbarrow in the evening

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen sketch of a blindfolded violinist and a hurdy-gurdy player in a top hat with a woman in a cloak on a street.

Three street musicians of whom the violinist is blindfolded

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen and wash drawing of a street vendor in a tall hat raising a lottery ticket and calling out to passersby.

Street vendor sells lottery tickets for the lottery

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen and grey wash drawing of a standing maid watching a kneeling woman with a basket beside stone steps and a grid-paned wind

Maid watches while ribbon is measured

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Ink and wash drawing of a seated woman by a canal railing, with a standing woman, a child and potted plants at right.

Woman with child buys a Palm Sunday stick

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Watercolor of a plant with a leaf rosette, slender stems, small white flowers with yellow centers, and a green bud.

Oxytropis aepicola

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Brown wash drawing of four children on a flat boat by a canal, looking up at trees and a building behind a fence.

Four children look from a barge at a sparrow's nest

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and watercolor drawing of a heavyset man with a cane facing a woman in a pink skirt and flying scarf.

Police officer and a woman who tries to seduce him

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Pen and wash drawing of an elderly man in a tricorn hat and long coat leaning on a cane beside a railing.

Man with cane and tricorn hat from the Diaconie Oude Mannen en Vrouwenhuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Watercolor of sunlit grey boulders outlined in blue, with slender trees and green shrubs behind them.

Rocks, Maine

Maurice Prendergast, 1910

Grey wash drawing of a woman walking between two men in tricorn hats and long coats along a railed path beside a tree.

Woman is brought to the Workhouse by two guards

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pencil sheet with numbered sketches of nude male figures, a pair of putti, and a Madonna and Child.

Tracings from illustrations in Anton Springer’s book

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Karmituolin, rukin ym. harjoitelmia

Anders Ekman, 1845

Watercolor botanical study of a succulent plant with fleshy green leaves and clusters of red and magenta flowers on a cream b

Sanifoiga adscendeus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long skirt and bonnet, drawn on a small sketchbook page.

Sketch of a figure

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890