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Drawings & Sketches

79,482 works

Study for an Allegory of Painting

Étienne Parrocel, 1750

Watercolour of cattle on a path below trees, with a hazy mountain range and valley beyond.

Vale of the Lludwy

David Cox the elder

Pen drawing of uniformed soldiers in a semicircle around a gesturing officer on a wooden floor.

Compagnie in een halve cirkel

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen drawing of an office with bookshelves, a seated man at a desk, a woman, and a uniformed figure in a doorway.

Jongeman wordt toegesproken

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Two arched allegorical panels labeled Science and Art, showing a seated veiled woman with books and a reclining woman with a

The Progress of Civilization: Science and Art (mural study, State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pen drawing of a uniformed officer pointing at a row of rifle-carrying soldiers standing before a barracks building.

Militair wijst naar acht soldaten op een rij

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen drawing of a startled uniformed soldier with raised hands standing in an open doorway.

Verschrikte militair in een deuropening

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen and brown ink drawing of Venus and Mars embracing beneath a canopy, with a sleeping cupid and armor in the foreground.

Venus and Mars

Richard Cosway, 1790

Pencil and blue-wash drawing of a young man with curly hair in a military coat and blue cravat, in an oval vignette.

Study for a Miniature Portrait of a Member of the Royal Family

Pencil and wash drawing of hilltop houses above a wooded slope, with a large tree at right and two small figures on a path.

"Rocca di Papa", näköala yli vuoren, jossa on rakennuksia

Robert Wilhelm Ekman

Stylized painted design of a rhinoceros walking past a tree, with a hunter with bow and mountains in a green landscape.

Bandbox Design - Rhino

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, 1935/1942

Pen drawing of two elderly women in a room, one reading a newspaper beside a tea table with plants in a window.

Twee oude vrouwen in een interieur

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen drawing of a seated soldier in a kepi reading a letter on a bench, with handwritten Dutch caption below.

Soldaat leest een brief

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen sketch of a fallen soldier in grass with a rifle, and mounted soldiers advancing through palm trees behind him.

Gewonde soldaat in een veld

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen and ink drawing of three uniformed men in a room, one seated at a table, one standing, and one seated in a chair.

Drie mannen rond een tafel

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Ink drawing of a seated soldier holding a paper and a standing soldier with a sword belt in an interior, 1898.

Twee militairen

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen drawing of a bearded uniformed man in a peaked cap sipping from a glass beside a window.

Militair nipt aan een glas cognac

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Open sketchbook page with a loose pencil landscape of rolling hills and a distant ridge.

Landscape sketch in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Pen drawing of a seated soldier in uniform and cap on a wooden stool, against a wall with a window.

Soldaat zittend op een kruk

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Pen and ink sketch of a man in hat and overcoat carrying a stack of books on his arm, seen from behind.

Boekhandelaar met een stapel boeken op zijn arm

Monogrammist EK, 1900

Pencil and watercolor book cover design of a soldier firing a cannon over a harbor city with a yellow explosion.

Bandontwerp voor: N. van Harpen, Toevalstreffers, 1898

Heinrich M. Krabbé, 1898

Painting of a brown and white cow beside a wooden gate, with a willow tree, a stork on a roof and a cloudy sky.

Study of a Cow against a Landscape

Wilhelm Leopolski

Graphite drawing of Christ blessing children, with a haloed figure and reaching hands among a crowd of people.

Christ Blessing Little Children

Watercolour of a horseman on a rearing black horse beside a brick inn, with a canal landscape behind.

Ein Reiter mit Dreispitz und Zopf, im Hintergrund eine Kanallandschaft

Cornelis Troost

Painted floral pattern of white and pink blossoms with dark leaves on a blue ground, with a decorative border across the top.

Bandbox Design

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, c. 1937

Pencil sketches on beige paper of nude male figures, including a raised arm and a muscular back view.

Sketches of nudes

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1884

Graphite drawing of a woman and child seized by armed robbers beneath trees, one robber holding a torch.

Queen Margaret of Anjon with the Prince, Her Son, Stript of Her Regalia by Robbers

Stylized painting of two women in flowered hats and striped gowns flanking two seated figures before dark trees on blue.

Bandbox Design

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, 1935/1942

Brown wash drawing of two setter dogs, one seated and one crouching, beside a small shrub on a toned paper ground.

Setters

Pen and wash sketch of a saint ascending through clouds, surrounded by cherubs and angels.

Apotheosis of a saint

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, 1735

Oval sketch in brown ink and wash of St Joseph with a staff rising among clouds, surrounded by angels and putti.

Glorification of St Joseph

Giuseppe Passeri, 1664

Pencil drawing of a seated man, head in hands, in a shadowed cave, by Richard Cosway.

Timon of Athens Before His Cave

Richard Cosway, 1805