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Drawings & Sketches

77,658 works

Three pencil sketches of a woven birch bark basket with rope handles on a pale beige paper background.

Kolme harjoitelmaa tuohikontista

Ferdinand von Wright

Pencil drawing of a large tree in a landscape with a distant city, a cascade, and small seated figures under clouds.

Fresco in Palazzo Colonna, Rome

After Gaspard Dughet, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of an angel above a sleeping old man, with animals in a draped cloth behind.

Peter's vision in Caesarea

Samuel van Hoogstraten

Sanguine sketch on orange paper of two women in long dresses and hats with a separate head study above.

Two Women and Head of Woman

William Glackens, 1910

Grey wash drawing of a helmeted rider on a white horse beside warriors under trees, with an army and river crossing in the di

Military exercises of the Batavians

Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts, 1783

Brown wash drawing of a nude woman seated by a draped curtain, with a dog at her feet and a balcony behind her.

Bathing woman

Grey wash drawing of thatched huts with men, women and children at work and rest in a rural settlement.

Dwellings and businesses of the Batavians

Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts, 1782

Grey wash drawing of a thatched hut, figures at a table, children bathing in a stream, and a forest with running dogs.

Recreations of the Batavians

Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts, 1782

Grey wash drawing of soldiers and robed men under a tree, with workers building embankments across a flat landscape.

First embanking by Drusus

Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts, 1797

Grey wash drawing of a large towered building beside a river, with men towing a boat and a sunburst sky.

Het Huis te Britten

Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts, 1797

Watercolor of a pink twisted stalk plant with striped green leaves and drooping red bell-shaped flowers on a cream background

Pink Twisted Stalk (Streptopus curvipes)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Pencil design drawing of a sideboard showing side and front elevations with circular medallions and fluted doors.

Design of a sideboard for the Żeleński dining room

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Grey wash drawing of putti playing in a garden beside a classical column and tree, by Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts, 1782.

Design for title page for: Aloude Staat der Verenigde Nederlanden

Engelbertus Matthias Engelberts, 1782

Grey wash drawing of a street scene with men in tricorn hats, a woman on a balcony, a tree and a wheelbarrow.

Street scene

Abraham Frena, 1700

Watercolor of a man in fringed buckskin smoking a feathered pipe beside a tepee, with mountains and figures in the distance.

A Shoshonee Indian Smoking

Alfred Jacob Miller, 1860

Grey wash drawing of a river with sailing boats, a farmhouse on the right and a church spire in a village on the left.

View of het Kalfje

Engelbert Michaël Engelberts, 1783

Pencil drawing of an angel's head with halo, curly hair and layered feathered wings with eye motifs.

Head of an angel

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Painted study of a woven textile with a red dragon motif, floral borders, and labeled stages from first to finished.

Woven Textile: Technique Demonstration

Dorothee L. Bates, 1935/1942

Portrait of Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar

Willem Joost Lodewijk Spoor, 1795

Pencil sketch of a water carrier on a rocky slope beside a moored cargo boat with a tall mast, with handwritten notes.

Composition with water carrier and cargo ship

Willem de Famars Testas, 1858

Painting of a peacock with fanned tail feathers camouflaged among dense green leaves and dappled woodland light.

Peacock in the Woods, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Loose graphite sketch of a swirling, dancing figure with overlapping contour lines on cream paper.

Harjoitelma

Ellen Thesleff, 1948

Watercolor painting of a worn ox collar with leather straps, rivets, a buckle, and two metal rings on a cream background.

Ox Collar

Alexander Anderson, 1938

Pencil sketch of figures in a rough interior with a seated man, standing figures, and a rider on horseback below.

Composition with figures in a room with mummies

Willem de Famars Testas, 1858

Pyhän Hengen kyyhky ja Miehen profiili, luonnoksia Tampereen tuomiokirkon maalauksiin

Pencil sketch of a log house with a thatched roof, dormer windows and bushes, dated July 1880, on tan paper.

House in Świątniki

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Watercolor of a sunlit courtyard with a stone building, a horse under a shed, a wooden wheel and a brick wall.

Ancient Abbey of St. Valery, France

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pen and ink sketchbook page with a grotesque mascaron above and a woman's head in an oval medallion below.

Sketches of a Mascaron and a Female Portrait in an Oval Medallion

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1886

Watercolor of a maypop passion flower branch with purple blossom, green buds, tendrils, and serrated leaves.

Maypop (Passiflora incarnata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen and ink sketch of two castle towers with tiled roofs and a stone archway in the foreground.

View of the Hen's Foot Tower and Sigismund Tower of the Wawel Castle

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1886

Watercolor of two stems of blue gentian flowers with green leaves rising from moss on a cream background.

Bluegreen Gentian (Gentiana glauca)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Painted study of a blue and cream woven coverlet with geometric blocks and butterfly-shaped motifs in a grid.

Coverlet

Sarkis Erganian, c. 1940