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Drawings & Sketches

77,658 works

Pen and watercolour coastal landscape with a man in a top hat beside boulders, a curving bay, and dunes under a grey sky.

Refsnæs, Coastal landscape

Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1844

Watercolor of a yellow jessamine branch with trumpet-shaped yellow flowers and green leaves on a cream background.

Yellow Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Ink sketch with several scenes of Viking warriors, a longship, a fortress, serpents and a battle, with Polish captions.

History of the legendary Viking leader Lodbrok

Aleksander Gierymski, 1866

Pencil sheet with sketched male heads, a sword-bearing figure in period dress, castle gates, towers and a rooster weathervane

Copies after works of art by Albrecht Dürer, including the engraving “Vision of St. Eustace” and the Paumgartner Alta…

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Watercolor of a pink-flowered Naiad spring beauty plant with slender stems and rosette leaves on a cream background.

Naiad Spring Beauty (Claytonia parvifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of horses and riders fording a shallow river with pack loads, trees and mountains in the distance.

British Columbia

Russell W. Porter, 1900

Parrakkaan miehen muotokuva

Severin Falkman, 1860

Grey wash drawing of two poor people sitting and eating on stone steps by a doorway, with a railing and cobblestones.

Two poor people eating on the stairs of the Diaconie Oude Mannen en Vrouwenhuis

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Ink and wash drawing of three men on a panorama viewing platform overlooking a hazy city skyline with a church tower.

Christiaan Andriessen and Anthony Andriessen visit the new panorama of Amsterdam

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Watercolor of two stems of blue alpine forget-me-not flowers with green leaves on a cream background.

Alpine Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis alpestris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of two nude boys beside a beached white and red boat on a grassy riverbank under a pale sky.

Sand Burr

Thomas Anshutz, 1880

Ink and wash drawing of three men in cloaks and tricorn hats, two of them helping a third dress, with Dutch inscription below

Three men helping each other dress for the funeral of Caspar Vredenburg

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Ink and grey wash sketch of two standing men in period dress, one holding an umbrella and the other a cane.

Lutheran clergyman J. Tissel and his son

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Painted rendering of a needlework sampler with alphabets, numerals, a floral border, and a central inscription and roses.

Sampler

Douglas Campbell, c. 1942

Brown wash drawing of a woman in a cloak talking to a man in a top hat by a railing, with other figures behind them.

Conversation on the Hogesluis, possibly about the length of the skirt of the woman in the foreground

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pencil drawing of fantastic hybrid creatures, a winged beast and a nude figure in a jagged rocky landscape.

Composition - fantastic figures and animals with a landscape in the background

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1921

Watercolor sketch of two 18th-century men in red and black coats gesturing in conversation, one holding a walking stick.

Two main characters from the opera Doktor und Apotheker by Karl Ditter von Dittersdorf

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Brown wash drawing of a family group in an interior, women in empire gowns and bonnets admiring a fur-trimmed coat.

Family admires the new coat of the sister of Christiaan Andriessen

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Pen and watercolor drawing of a standing woman in a white headscarf and blue patterned blouse holding a bowl.

Portrait of the sister of the Frisian painter C.J. van Baar van Slangenburgh

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Ink and wash drawing of a nursemaid with a parasol walking with two children in long dresses.

Babysitter with two children under a broken umbrella

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Loose pencil sketch of a standing nude woman with arms raised overhead, on cream paper.

Alaston naisfiguuri, harjoitelma

Ellen Thesleff, 1936

Pen and watercolour sketch of figures battling wind and rain on a street, with a woman in a bonnet and a man with an umbrella

Maid with a very long sunbonnet, a funeral caller and Christiaan Andriessen brave wind and rain

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Three running horses in watercolor and pencil, the front bay horse fully colored, the others fading into sketch lines.

3 running horses

Christian David Gebauer, 1820-1829

Watercolor botanical study of a Double Bladderpod plant with blue-gray leaves, yellow flowers, and exposed roots.

Double Bladderpod (Physaria didymocarpa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen and watercolor drawing of two men in long coats walking along a canal promenade lined with trees.

Adult orphan boys from Haarlem walking along the Amstel

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Mauve-toned textile design of monkeys, an archer, birds and tropical foliage on a stippled pink ground.

Block Print

George Loughridge, c. 1936

Watercolor textile design of red flowers, brown leaves and buds on a light patterned ground with a decorative border.

Chintz

George Loughridge, c. 1936

Watercolor of a bearberry branch with pink bell-shaped flowers and green leaves on a cream background.

Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor botanical study of a white blue Pulsatilla flower and a feathery seed head with fine green leaves.

Pulsatilla occidentalis

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1890

Pen and ink drawing of a rocky landscape with two stone arches, dense trees and a stony path in the foreground.

Palazzolon kapusiiniluostarin luona

Alexander Lauréus, 1821

Pen and ink study of a seated muscular man raising a sword beside a standing male figure, with red chalk underdrawing.

Saul and David

Baccio Bandinelli, n.d.

Watercolor of a white foxglove pentstemon flowering stem with buds and green leaves on a cream background.

Foxglove Pentstemon (Pentstemon digitalis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910