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Drawings & Sketches

77,558 works

Pen and watercolour drawing of a woman in a white cap reading in a room with a window, desk, and fireplace with urns.

"An old time chamber it was"- (Scene from "Theodore Hook")

David Wilkie, 1836

Watercolor of a sunny Spanish street with flowered iron balconies, colorful awnings, wooden doors and a blue sky.

Old House at Segovia, Spain

Cass Gilbert, 1920

Brown ink and wash sketch of two nude figures embracing, one with large wings, standing on a shaded ground.

Passionate couple in love

Johan Tobias Sergel

Loose charcoal sketch of a man in a hat and coat smoking a pipe, walking beside a small child in a hat on yellow paper.

Man with Child

William Glackens, 1910

Aerial perspective drawing of a proposed Chicago lakefront boulevard with gardens, city blocks, and sailboats on the water.

Plate 114 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Proposed Boulevard and Parkway on Michigan Avenue and Pine Street

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1909

Pencil sketch of a smiling woman in a ruffled 18th-century gown with flowers in her curled hair, with German handwritten note

Tänzerin Barbarina. Kniestück. Von der eigenen Zeichnung nach einem Gemälde von Pesne in Sanssouci. Kleid kurz und fl…

Adolph Menzel, 1840

Pen drawing of women attending a reclining figure beside a canopy bed, framed by rococo scrollwork ornament.

The maternity room

Gudmund Hentze, 1920

Pen and wash drawing of a winged nude man in flight carrying another figure through clouds.

Saturn on clouds

Gaspare Diziani

Aerial watercolor plan of a classical city with a domed civic center, obelisks, boulevards and canals.

Plate 122 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Railway Station Scheme West of the River Between Canal and Clinton…

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1905

Watercolor of a standing grey heron with pink legs and bill among stylised reeds, signed J. T. Lundbye.

Standing heron

Johan Thomas Lundbye

Charcoal drawing of a path between alpine wooden houses with shadows on the walls and a mountain slope behind.

Weg zwischen Alpenhäusern mit Schattenwurf auf der Hauswand

Adolph Menzel, 1879

Pencil sketch on a wooden board of two standing women in long dresses, one partly behind the other.

Two Standing Women

Edvard Munch, 1920

Ornate ink drawing of a festive domed pavilion with columns, garlands and a crowd, framed by a seated woman and an eagle on a

Citizens of Vienna/to the most serene Princess Stephanie/reverent send greetings VII. Before the Ides of May MDCCCLXXXI

Otto Wagner, 1889

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of a cow, geese, and a child, signed by Viggo Johansen in the lower left.

Studies from Dragør

Viggo Johansen, 1920

Francesco Sforza; Alfonso V of Aragon; Isotta degli Atti

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1883

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ giving communion to apostles in an oval architectural frame.

Christus reicht den Aposteln das Abendmahl

Gaspare Diziani

Watercolor and pencil study of a woman in a bonnet, fringed shawl and dark skirt, with sketches of dress details.

Shaker Dress

Lillian Causey, 1935/1942

Pen and wash drawing of a knife grinder working at a wheel under a tiled roof beside a brick farmhouse wall.

Knife grinder

Herman Saftleven

Watercolor of a church spire and trees across a calm lake at sunset, with warm sky reflected in the water.

Church and Lake

Henry Bacon, 1910

Pen and brown wash drawing of a kneeling haloed saint gazing up at angels and a hanging censer near an altar.

Der Heilige Costanzo di Ancona vor dem Altar kniend

Gaspare Diziani

Four drawn rock slabs showing fossil fern-like fronds with pinnate leaflets, labelled Dammarites from Shag Point, Otago.

Fossil plant specimen. Dammarites corinata Hector

John Buchanan, 1864

Sepia elevation drawing of a domed neoclassical civic center flanked by symmetrical buildings and city blocks.

Plate 131 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Elevation Showing the Group of Buildings Constituting the Proposed…

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1909

Pen and ink sketch of a reclining male nude with one arm extended, on pale yellowed paper.

Lying male nude

Gaspare Diziani

Sketch of masons working on wooden scaffolding, with colored pencil and charcoal lines in green, red and yellow.

Masons on Scaffolding

Edvard Munch, 1929

Brown wash drawing of rocky cliffs above water under a stormy sky, with a small arched building and trees on the right.

Mountain landscape with lake

Anton Melbye, 1855

Watercolour view of a harbour town with sailing ships, a steamship and rowing boats below steep green hills, 1867.

Picton

Wilbraham Liardet, 1867

Study of a Horse

Maksymilian Gierymski, 1870

Faint pencil sketch on canvas of a seated draped figure and a standing bearded man, by Edvard Munch, 1926.

Various Figures

Edvard Munch, 1926

Watercolor of a striped Romanesque-style tower with a red conical roof, rising above rooftops under a pale blue sky.

Cathedral Tower, Pistoia, Italy

Cass Gilbert, 1890

Black chalk drawing on blue paper of a male nude seen from behind, showing back and arm musculature.

Male nude from behind

Gaspare Diziani

Watercolor drawing of a symmetrical civic plaza with a domed central building, obelisk, and long classical halls lining the a

View of the Proposed Civic Center Plaza and Buildings, The 1909 Plan of Chicago

Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1908

Pen and watercolor drawing of a harbor with waterfront houses, moored sailboats, a wooden quay and figures by the water.

Lake Mälaren near Stockholm

Carl Frederik Sørensen, 1851