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Drawings & Sketches

77,556 works

The Madonna and Child with an Escaped Goldfinch

Drawing of a gray tin tint lamp with a wick on top and an oval drip pan with a looped handle at its base.

Economy Tint Lamp

Edward White, c. 1937

Brown ink drawing of a marriage ceremony in an arched frame, with bearded figures Paulus and Mozes at the sides and a banquet

Sacrament of marriage, in a frame with Paul and Moses

Pen and brown ink drawing of an older bearded man embracing a barefoot younger man beside steps.

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Pen drawing of an ornate price list design with putti, a coat of arms, and a female cameo above itemized photographic formats

Design for a price list of a photographic studio

Ernst Maximilian Büttinghausen, 1901

Painted head study of a young man with curly dark hair and beard, wearing a white collar, against a brown background.

Head Study of a Young Man

Lambert Sustris, 1540

Pencil sketch of an ornamental framed design with scrolls, a helmeted figure at top, and a central cartouche.

Design for a price list

Ernst Maximilian Büttinghausen, 1900

Brown ink drawing in an oval frame of an elderly seated woman and a standing man gesturing upward in an interior.

Elderly couple in conversation

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Pen drawing of a woman at a doorway beside caricatured heads in helmets, with a small figure in uniform below.

Woman in front of a house and three representations of a police officer

Ernst Maximilian Büttinghausen, 1893

Pencil and ink sketch in an oval of a pile of travel luggage with trunks, a hatbox and an umbrella.

The travel luggage

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Brown ink and wash sketch of a fountain design with a central standing figure and reclining figures on rocks.

Design for a nymph fountain

Gaspare Diziani

Watercolor of an oval terracotta pie plate with green wavy slip lines and a scalloped orange rim on a cream background.

Economy Pie Plate

Edward White, c. 1937

Sketch of men drinking in a tavern, one raising a glass, a seated man leaning on a table, in an oval frame.

A merry drinking bout

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Oval pencil and brown wash drawing of a crowd of men in coats, centered on two figures in animated conversation.

Exchange of words between gentlemen

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Pen and wash drawing of two muscular nude men raising clubs above serpent heads, Guercino, 1618.

Hercules Slaying the Hydra

Oval sketch in pen and brown wash of a group of figures in a carriage with a top hat floating above them.

Company in a compartment, top hat in the air

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Brown wash drawing in oval frame of a man held by two top-hatted men, with a crowd of onlookers behind.

Man being taken away by two plainclothes gentlemen

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Oval brown ink drawing of an elegant couple in period dress, a seated woman and a standing man, beside a small table.

Courtship between elegant couple

Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate, 1832

Sketches of female heads

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pencil sketch of clouds, a draped figure and rocky forms on pale paper, with an inventory number written at the bottom.

Sketch - Gaspare Diziani

Gaspare Diziani

Dark oil painting of a woman's head tilted down with closed eyes, lit warmly against a shadowy background.

Head Study of a Man

Leopold Horovitz, 1870

Long panoramic architectural drawing of a city street grid along a lakeshore with piers and a harbor.

Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the City from Jackson Park to Grant Park, Looking Towards the We…

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1907

Pencil sketch of mountain peaks and ridges on a sketchbook page, with handwritten labels and the number 57 in the corner.

Sketch of mountain peaks in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Painted head study of a woman with dark hair, small earring and white garment against a pale brown background.

Head Study of a Woman

Leopold Horovitz, 1860

Erminia

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling youth before standing figures, framed by an architectural border with fruit garlands and a c

Kneeling youth before a prince (David before Saul?)

Gaspare Diziani

Soft pastel view of a proposed lakeside park with tree-lined paths, a bridge over a river, and a distant city skyline at suns

Plate 50 A from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the Proposed Park on the South Shore Looking Northwest Towards…

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1896

Pencil sketch of a chaff cutter machine with wooden frame, chains and handle, drawn in loose lines on cut paper.

Häckselschneidemaschine

Adolph Menzel, 1839

Watercolor of two forested mountains above a village of wooden houses, a fence, and a grassy field under a pale sky.

Preanger regencies

Jannes Theodorus Bik, 1819

Chalk drawing of an elderly woman with wrinkled face wearing a light head scarf and red-orange shawl.

Bust of an Old Woman Wearing a Head Scarf

Nicolas Lagneau, 1625

Ink caricature of two men in court and military dress, one in a cocked hat with a sword, beside a column and railing.

Regulations for court attire

Patricq Kroon, 1900

Pen and ink drawing of three German soldiers in uniform, one with a sword and rifle, labeled Deutsche Republik.

Ambush in Germany

Patricq Kroon, 1900