New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome and Firefox. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome Add to Firefox

Drawings & Sketches

77,658 works

Pencil sketch of a man with curly shoulder-length hair, moustache and lace collar, with handwritten inscription below.

Portrait of Prince Bogusław Radziwiłł (1620-1669). Copy of an engraving

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Line drawing of a tobacco field with leafy plants in the foreground and small figures working among the crops.

Tobacco fields

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1807

Grey ink drawing of a dragon head with bulging eyes and whiskers emerging from swirling dark and pale clouds.

Dragon and clouds

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1808

Pen sketch of a seated samurai in armor with a sword across his lap, with red preliminary lines visible.

Samurai in armor

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1808

Pen sketch of a crowd of Japanese figures in robes and topknots on a street, with several overlapping studies.

Street scene, including a man with a fan

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1808

Ink sketch in a frame of three bust-length figures, two in women's roles with elaborate hairstyles, one with a bald head.

Bust portrait of three actors, two of whom in female roles

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1808

Ink sketch of two folded lotus leaves with radiating veins on a pale sheet, mounted within a light border.

Sketch page with folded lotus leaves

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1808

Small sketch sheet with grey ink strokes, red inscriptions and a yellow wash, attributed to Utagawa Hiroshige I.

Sketch page

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1807

Watercolor drawing of a round reddish ceramic plate with a wavy green glaze border and a faded central motif.

Plate

Sketch of a palanquin with a curved roof resting on carrying poles, with a figure seated inside, drawn in grey ink.

Sketch sheet with sedan chair

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1807

Faint grey ink sketch of a boat with ropes and a figure on pale paper, mounted in a cream frame.

Sketch sheet

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1807

Closed grey-blue cloth-bound sketchbook with worn edges and soiled lower cover, against a white background.

Sketchbook for 'The marriage at Cana'

Winifred Knights, 1922

Ink and wash drawing of a fox holding an open parasol and a sake flask, with a long bushy tail.

Fox with carafe and parasol

Kawanabe Kyōsai, 1841

Pencil sketch of two sailing boats on a beach with figures carrying baskets of fish and a horse cart.

The Catch Coming In

Edward William Cooke, n.d.

Watercolor of rolling fields and a village with red roofs beneath clouds, with poppies and wildflowers in the foreground mead

Downton, Salisbury

Three studies of cicadas on a pale sheet, two lightly coloured with transparent wings and one in pencil outline.

Three studies of flies

Nonoyama Kōzan, 1790

"Panna Adela Brudzewska z Korabnik" "Miss Adela Brudzewska from Korabniki." Portrait sketch on Stanisław Wyspiański's…

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Brown wash drawing of a thatched farm with men handling cows on a dirt road beside a large tree.

Farm with Men and Cows

Possibly Ferdinand Kobell, n.d.

Pencil and wash sketch of a crowded street with women in hats, a man, and two horses beside a wall.

Street Scene, New York

Jules Pascin, 1918

Watercolour of a figure carrying a net on a low-tide beach, with a distant town of red roofs under a pale sky.

Near Queens Bower, Hants

Pencil drawing of a male lion reclining with a lioness standing behind him, with a small engraved lion scene in the lower lef

Lion and Lioness

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, c. 1882

Pencil sketchbook page with loose hatched hills and swirling cloud forms, numbered 62 in the upper corner.

Study from An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Loose pencil sketch of hills and vegetation on a cream sketchbook page, numbered 29.

Sketch of hills. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Pencil study of Gothic architectural details including foliate brackets, quatrefoil tracery, pointed arches and moldings on t

Copies of Gothic architectural details

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Head study of a man with short reddish hair, lowered eyes and red lips, drawn in loose pencil lines on a pale grey background

The Woodcutter, head study

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1943

Painting of two white chalkware roosters with spread wings in red, gold and green, standing on a rust-colored rectangular bas

Chalkware Roosters

Mina Lowry, c. 1937

Pencil sketch of a river valley with mountains in the distance, a tall tree and cliff on the right.

Untitled (Teremakau River)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of ruined ancient city with tall tower, arched gateway and steps, with handwritten notes above and the word Nin

"Niniwa" "Nineveh"

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1882

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a headscarf and loose robe walking, on warm mustard-toned paper.

Woman Walking

William Glackens, 1910

Pencil sketch of a city square with a domed tower, row of building facades, and loose trees and clouds.

Fragment of the Krakow Cloth Hall and the frontage of the Main Square

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1900

Two painted drawings of chalkware lovebird figurines on pedestal bases, each pair with beaks touching, in gray, green and red

Chalkware Lovebirds

Mina Lowry, c. 1937

Pencil sketch of a lake landscape with hills, trees, a pier on the left, and small buildings along the shore.

Untitled. (Italian landscape with lake)

William Henry Fox Talbot