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Drawings & Sketches

79,544 works

Grey wash drawing of a watermill beside a stream, with cattle, a large tree on the right and a cloudy sky.

Landschap met een watermolen aan een beek

Henricus Josephus Antonissen, 1747

Grey wash drawing of a Gothic cathedral tower with clock face and tall spire, flanked by buildings, rendered in pen and ink.

Kathedraal te Antwerpen

Ignatius Joseph van den Berghe, 1781

Pencil sketch of ruined stone arches overgrown with shrubs and scattered rubble in the foreground.

Ruins of a building among shrubs

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Grey wash drawing of a seated woman in a high wig and lace collar, sewing with her head bent over her lap.

Zittende dame met hoge pruik

Louis Bernard Coclers, 1781

Loose ink drawing of a figure in a cap standing beside a calf and cow, with a fence rail on a pale background.

Vrouw met een kalf

Rik Wouters, 1915

Pen sketch sheet by Rik Wouters showing studies of women with a cat, a figure at a wash tub, and an interior scene.

Studies van een vrouw met poes en vrouwen aan wastobben

Rik Wouters, 1900

Grey ink wash drawing of a seated woman by a window framed by dark curtains, with a street view beyond.

Vrouw aan 't venster

Rik Wouters, 1915

Ink drawing of a sow lying with several piglets around her, with dark wash shapes suggesting shrubs on the ground.

Studies van een zeug met biggen

Rik Wouters, 1915

Studie van een jonge vrouw, half op de rug gezien

Eugène François de Block, 1845

Grey wash landscape drawing of a horse-drawn cart on a road beneath large trees, with figures and a bare stump at right.

Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures

Thomas Gainsborough, 1785

Pencil drawing of Christ Church, Blackfriars, showing a tall clock tower, arched windows and a pitched roof, with trees at le

Christ Church, Blackfriars, London

Thomas Girtin, 1792

Pencil sketch of a group of figures with a standing man, a seated figure, and rectangular frame studies below.

Sketches of buildings and figural representations

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Silhouet van Madame Eugène de Block-Looz

Charles Auguste Fraikin, 1852

Pencil drawing of a classical country house with columned portico and pediment, trees and a bench in the foreground.

Harewood House, Yorkshire

Thomas Girtin, 1798

Vertical drawing of white lilies with orange stamens and green stems against blue, grey and brown bands.

Lilje

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Watercolor of a white pavilion on a hillside overlooking water, with two walking men and a distant village.

Swiss House at Jægerspris

Søren L. Lange, 1799

Copy after Honoré Daumier

Pencil and watercolour study of two clumps of white-flowered cushion plant with rosette leaves and labelled name.

Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolor of a half-timbered gabled house with leaded windows on a cobbled street, with pedestrians and hazy buildings beyon

Old House in Rouen

Cass Gilbert, 1930

Pencil sketch of moored sailing boats and low harbor buildings along a waterfront, with smoke drifting on the right.

Bristol: Sketch of Boats and Buildings

Thomas Girtin, 1797

Painting of a flowery meadow with a figure walking a dirt path past trees under a cloudy sky.

Flowery Meadow

William Henry Holmes, 1910

Watercolor illustration of a period dress with floral fabric swatches, a button detail, and pen sketches of the back.

Dress

Henry Moran, c. 1940

Watercolor and ink night landscape with fiery swirling clouds over a dark cliff, moon, stars, blue sea and river.

The Creation

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Figure Costume Study: Persian Lady in 1568

Thomas Girtin, 1793

Torn tracing paper with pencil and blue crayon outlines of stylised vetch leaves and tendrils in a repeating decorative desig

Common vetch. Design for painted decoration of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Pencil sketch of an arched wooden footbridge with trees and a small shed beside a grassy field.

Muroleen koski

Eveliina Särkelä, 1870

Watercolor of a woman in a cream blouse washing clothes at a river trough, with another washer in a red headscarf behind her.

A Mexican Laundry

William Henry Holmes, 1890

Brown wash landscape of a horseback rider and walker with a dog near a stream and stone bridge under trees.

Hilly Landscape with Figures Approaching a Bridge

Thomas Gainsborough, 1763

Pencil sketch of four studies of a wooden hay cart with spoked wheels and slatted sides from different angles.

Four Studies of a Hay Cart

Thomas Girtin, 1798

Pencil drawing of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and dark shawl, looking forward, with handwritten inscription below.

Head of an old Dutch woman

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolor of a cloudy sky over a green sea, with dark cliffs on the left and figures beside a boat on the beach.

On the California Coast

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Loose graphite sketch on blue-grey paper of a seated female figure with smudged shadows, from a sketchbook page.

Mother of Ensor

James Ensor, 1879