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Drawings & Sketches

79,544 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of thatched farm buildings, sheep and figures in a field below rolling hills.

The Valley of Vision

Colored drawing of the Virgin and Child with an older bearded man and an angel, framed by ornamental borders.

An angel ordering Joseph to flee to Egypt

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1891

Watercolor drawing of a small box side with a green rim and a stylized plant of curling leaves and red berries.

Small Decorated Box (side)

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, c. 1937

Ink drawing of soldiers firing rifles beside a regimental flag, with fallen men on the ground and smoke in the background.

"Lapuan kentäll' isä kuol' lippunsa vierehen" Originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitukseen

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Brown wash drawing of an old village street with gabled buildings, a large tree, a rider on horseback, and distant towers.

Study of Old Buildings

Watercolor design of a small box front with green bands and red stylized flowers and vines on a cream ground.

Small Decorated Box (front view)

Isabella Ruth Doerfler, c. 1937

Oil sketch of three rural figures carrying baskets, a box and rope across a grassy field, one bearded man in a red cap.

Study of carrying Farmers

Anders Askevold, 1860

Oil study of a wooden bucket of potatoes and garden tools against a sunlit wooden house corner, with a stone path.

Study of a Treebucket with Potatoes

Anders Askevold, 1860

Grey pencil sketch of a balcony with an iron railing beneath a tall shuttered window and building facade.

The Balcony

Graphite drawing of an old cedar tree with spreading branches above faint sketched shrubs and trees.

Old Cedar Tree in Botanic Garden, Chelsea

Samuel Palmer, 1854

Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola. Drawing of the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Ink and wash drawing of a crescent moon over a dark night landscape with trees, a hedgerow, and small sketches below.

The Crescent Moon

Watercolor of a single purple tulip on a green stem rising through misty, abstract washes of grey, blue and ochre.

Emergence

Andrey Avinoff, 1940

Ink and wash caricature of caricatured men fleeing across a field, with onlookers at a fence and a church spire in the distan

"Das große diesjährige Rennen (...)" (Karikatur auf die Flucht von Metternich, Czapka und Sedlnitzky nach der Märzrev…

Franz Kaliwoda, 1848

Oil study of six horse hooves and lower legs in a row over a warm brown ground.

Study of six hooves

Anders Askevold, 1855

Pen and wash drawing of rolling hills, hedgerows, village trees and tall bare trees under a pale sky, by Samuel Palmer.

Shoreham, Kent

Samuel Palmer, 1831

Watercolor of a golden plain below layered mountains with reddish slopes and distant snowy peaks under a cloudy sky.

Dome Pass and the Five Rivers Plain

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor drawing of an ocean sunfish on purple ground with a Dutch handwritten inscription in an ornate cartouche.

Ocean sunfish (Mola mola)

Adriaen Coenen, 1583

Pencil study of a female head wearing a veil with scrolled curls, shaded in a sculptural manner.

Study of the head of the prophetess Anna from a sculpture in the portal of Notre Dame Cathedral in Reims

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pencil sketch of a stone town gate with overgrown trees and a handwritten French note below.

Gezicht op een stadspoort in Vouvant

Georges Adelmard Bouet, 1864

Watercolor of a battle scene with mounted officers, infantry lines, a regimental flag, and a fallen horse in smoke.

Slag bij Boutersem

Johannes Jelgerhuis, 1831

Pencil design of a stylized mullein plant with buds and large blossoms in a symmetrical vertical panel.

Mullein (middle fragment). Design for painted decoration of the presbytery of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Pen and brown wash sketch of a landscape with large trees, rolling hills, and small standing figures at right.

Landscape Sketch

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated bearded philosopher surrounded by robed students on stone steps.

Sokrates im Kreise seiner Schüler

Jacob van Schuppen

Pencil outline drawing on aged tracing paper of corncockle flowers, buds and leaves, prepared as a transfer cartoon.

Corncockle. Pounced drawing for the polychrome wall painting for the Franciscan church in Krakow

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor and pen drawing of a steep valley with rocky cliffs, trees, and distant hills under a pale sky.

The Valley of Dolwyddelan

Ink sketch of a standing man in a long coat with a walking stick, with a landscape of hills behind him.

Full length portrait [James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe] with landscape background

Francis Grant, 1870

Colorful painting of a rich banquet with musicians, contrasted with a sore-covered beggar and dogs on the floor.

Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Sketch of a seated man in a tricorn hat and red jacket, seen from behind, with yellow breeches on a grey mound.

A Groom on Horseback, Drinking

Sketch of a winged figure in red drapery with a halo, seated on a stone ledge within an arched frame.

Sketch for the Mural at Oberlin College, "The Spirit of Self-Sacrificing Love"

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Pencil sketch of Rome with St. Peter's dome, a bell tower, distant domes, walking figures and a donkey in the foreground.

Rome from San Spirito

Watercolor of a gray house with laundry, trees, chickens and a group of women and children in a sunny yard.

(Landscape)

Ann Brockman, 1940