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Drawings & Sketches

79,544 works

Black ink design drawing with an arched frame, geometric border ornament and teardrop-shaped knobs on a pale sheet.

Bandontwerp voor: M.W. Meijer, De natuurkrachten, 1904

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1904

Pencil sketch of a rolling landscape with trees, cottages and a distant tower, by Thomas Girtin, 1796.

Thetford, Norfolk

Thomas Girtin, 1796

Decorative album page with red foliage border, four panels with printed names and handwritten numbers in pencil.

Albumblad voor een album voor Prof. Hugo de Vries

Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries, 1918

Pencil sketch of a girl with long hair on a wicker chair with a small boy beside her, with an inscription below.

Sketch for Michael and Xenia, Children of Tsar Alexander III

Albert Edelfelt

Pen drawing of a timber-framed house facade with carved brackets beside a heraldic plaque with a bishop's mitre and inscripti

Part of a two-storey timber-framed house, the now completely altered Nørregade no. 15 in Odense. Plate with the coat…

Dankvart Dreyer, 1844

Faint smudged pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing loose figure and tree forms, by James Ensor.

Wiped-away drawing

Pencil drawing of a riverside town with a church tower, houses, boats and a wooded hill behind.

View of Kingswear, from Dartmouth, Devon

Thomas Girtin, 1797

Gadwall Decoy

Samuel W. Ford, c. 1939

Pencil drawing of the ornate Guildhall facade in Exeter with arched passage, pedestrians, and gabled houses receding on the r

The Guildhall, Exeter

Thomas Girtin, 1797

Pencil drawing of a sand pit at a forest edge with eroded banks, trees, a small pool and a wooden footbridge, by Fritz Bamber

Sandgrube am Waldausgang bei Starnberg

Fritz Bamberger, 1862

Sketch of a lone figure in a dark hat walking a sandy path by a calm grey sea, with a bare shrub and distant hills.

The Wounded Angel, landscape study

Hugo Simberg, 1902

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man with long wavy hair, gazing to the side on aged paper.

presumed Self-portrait

Leonardo da Vinci

Greater Yellow Leg Decoy

Samuel W. Ford, c. 1939

Charcoal sketch of grotesque figures, silhouettes and a bird-like head on yellowed paper, by James Ensor.

Silhouettes and grotesque figures

James Ensor, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of ruined palace walls and arches with rubble, small figures, and a distant bridge.

Ruins of the Savoy Palace, London

Red chalk sketch of a man with tousled hair raising a glass, the glass and hand drawn in dark ink on tan paper.

Sketch of a man with a glass

Stanisław Wyspiański

Watercolor of a ruined stone castle on a hill above a shore, with a rowboat and two figures on the water.

Ruins on the Coast

Profile of a Young Fiancée

Leonardo da Vinci, 1495

Watercolor of the Gorge of Hurunui showing hills, distant mountains and a pale sky above an open golden plain.

Gorge of Hurunui

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pencil sketch of Lincoln Cathedral's twin towers and spires above trees and rooftops, with a hillside in the foreground.

View of Lincoln Cathedral

Decoy (Gull)

Mina Lowry, 1935/1942

Pencil sketch of a winding road over rough hillside with scrubby shrubs and bare branches, from a sketchbook page.

Sketch of road from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Grey wash drawing of boulders and shallow water in a hazy mountain landscape near Partenkirchen, 1854.

Felsengeröll im Hochgebirge bei Partenkirchen

Fritz Bamberger, 1854

Pen sketch sheet with studies of the Virgin and Christ Child in arched niches, plus a perspective diagram and putti doodles.

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Dia…

Leonardo da Vinci, 1480

Watercolor of a weathered stone abbey ruin with a tall gable and arched windows, figures on a path, and trees under pale sky.

Battle Abbey

Cass Gilbert, 1930

Grey wash drawing of a round stone tower and arched gateway with windmills on the distant left horizon.

The Land Gate, Rye, Sussex

Thomas Girtin, 1795

Pencil sketch of Warkworth Castle on a hill above rooftops and trees, with a ruined tower to the right.

Warkworth Castle, Northumberland

Thomas Girtin, 1796

Grid of fifteen panels of a stained glass design with a bearded figure, a violin, and flowing warm-toned abstract lines.

Henry the Pious (Wawel Cathedral stained glass designs)

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1900

A Bear Walking

Leonardo da Vinci, 1482

Watercolor sketch of comic figures in a tavern, with a laughing man in a feathered hat and men tumbling near a chair.

Illustration to "Barnaby Rudge"

Painted study of an ornamental downspout with a relief sailing ship, palm fronds, letters DPK and the date 1802.

Ornamental Downspout

Samuel W. Ford, c. 1938

Sketch of a young woman's head turned toward the viewer, with soft hatched shading on hair and face.

Study for the Head of a Girl

Leonardo da Vinci, 1483