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Drawings & Sketches

78,193 works

Grey wash drawing of boys towing a rowboat with a woman and baby along a riverbank beneath tall trees.

A Country Scene

John La Farge, July 1848

Pen and grey wash drawing of a funeral procession of cloaked mourners passing a coffin before a church with arched windows.

Begräbnis. Illustration zur Jobsiade

Johann Peter Hasenclever, 1825

Gothic-style architectural elevation of a large cathedral pipe organ with pinnacles, arched pipe towers and a central coat of

Orgue de la Cathédrale de Metz 1845

Jean Frédéric Verschneider, 1844

Watercolor of blue mountain foothills behind dark trees, a green meadow with a dirt path, and a tall conifer at left.

Wyoming Foot Hills

William Henry Holmes, 1920

Ink and wash allegory by Mauritius Lowe, 1772: classical figures, a draped banner revealing a sleeping figure, and a mountain

An Allegory on the Plight of the Artist

Mauritius Lowe, 1772

Pen sketch of a bearded saint, a hand gesture, and an ornamented vestment, with handwritten notes on aged paper.

Sketch of St. Gregory of Nazianzus from the doors of church of the Holy Spirit in Rohatyn

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Brown wash drawing of allegorical figures with chains, a winged old man, and a bound nude woman in a rocky landscape.

The Artist Assaulted by Time, Ignorance and Envy

Mauritius Lowe, 1772

Pencil and ink sketch of mourners around an open coffin at a funeral, with a clergyman standing among the crowd.

Erwachen beim Begräbnis. Illustration zur Jobsiade

Johann Peter Hasenclever, 1825

Ink and wash plan of Toulouse Cathedral showing nave, choir, chapels and surrounding streets, 1862.

Plan général de la cathédrale de Toulouse (1862)

Jacques-Jean Esquié, 1862

Pencil sketch of a woman with bobbed hair, a bearded man behind her, and a bust form on the left against hatched background.

"Dame zwischen Tod und Teufel" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1930

Watercolor of a pink and lavender sunset over a dark horizon of trees, a church spire and flat fields.

Sunset after Storm

Otto Gaertner, 1900

Pen and ink sketch of soldiers attacking figures in a violent crowded scene with architecture at the right.

Bethlehemitischer Kindermord

Gaspare Diziani

Pencil sketch of a reclining classical woman on a couch beside a standing nude female figure gesturing outward.

Study of Classical Figures

Watercolor elevation of the Toulouse cathedral sacristy showing brick walls, gothic windows and a tiled roof.

État de la sacristie de la cathédrale de Toulouse (1851)

Jacques-Jean Esquié, 1851

Pen drawing of men in wigs seated at a long table while a standing man addresses them in an arched room.

Examen. Illustration zur Jobsiade

Johann Peter Hasenclever, 1825

Graphite and chalk drawing of two embracing figures above a winged creature against a swirling starry sky.

Castor and Pollux (Gemini)

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1918

Pen drawing of a pipe-smoking man in a crowded sailboat approaching a bearded figure on an ice floe labeled Nordpol.

Schlemihl segelt zum Nordpol (Expedition des Grafen Rumjanzow)

E. T. A. Hoffmann, 1791

Farmer on horseback with a child and cattle on a dusk path, a church on a hill under a crescent moon.

The good farmer

Samuel Palmer, 1865

Brown ink drawing of a seated woman playing a lyre under a tree, with two winged cupids making music beside her.

Sappho

Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway, 1826

Pen and ink drawing of the Annunciation: an angel approaches the Virgin beneath a radiant burst of light and clouds.

The Annunciation

Gaspare Diziani, 1747

Ink and wash drawing of a winged armored warrior with spear and shield beside a nude woman and coiled serpents under a dark s

Classical Figures in Battle

Pen drawing of rooftops, a fenced yard with grazing cows, a tree, and two figures in the foreground under an arched frame.

Gehöft auf der Wieden am Palais Starhemberg-Schönburg

Ferdinand Olivier, 1800

Ensor's sister at the piano

Pen drawing of church wall-reinforcement details with timber bracing, foundation section, ornamental iron plate and scale bar

Leppävirran kirkon tukirakenteiden yksityiskohtapiirustukset

Carl Albert Edelfelt, 1855

Watercolor of a ruined castle on a riverbank with sailboats, a rowboat, a fisherman, and large trees in the foreground.

A Castle on a River

Pencil drawing of a long road between embankments with poplars, resting figures, a woman with buckets, and a domed building.

Die Sandgstetten auf der Wieden am Belvedere

Ferdinand Olivier, 1800

Circular watercolor of three draped women floating in a pale sky, one holding a small blue butterfly.

Dawn

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Ink drawing of a large liner under construction in a shipyard with cranes, scaffolding, workers and warships along the river.

The building of the " Queen Elizabeth", John Brown's Yard, Clydebank

Muirhead Bone, 1938

Red chalk portrait of a bearded soldier in a wide-brimmed hat and uniform with medals on his chest.

Italialaisen sotilaan muotokuva

Severin Falkman, 1860

Brown wash drawing of a carriage pulled by two horses, with a coachman on top and standing figures in the foreground.

A Carriage and Pair, with Coachman

Paul Sandby, 1774

Pencil drawing of a weathered stone shrine with a tiled roof on a hill covered in ferns and shrubs.

Hügel mit verfallenem Bildstock

Alexius Geyer, 1831

Pencil sketch of a leafless tree with a forked trunk and thin, spreading branches on pale paper.

Kale boom

Jan Mankes, 1899