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79,543 works

Hand-painted entomology plate XVIII showing a small cricket-like insect and a larger spiny insect with long antennae.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XVIII]

George Hudson, 1886

Pencil sketch of a harbour with a Gothic church tower, ship masts, and small boats in the water.

St. Mary Redcliff, Bristol

Thomas Girtin, 1797

Sleeping Girl

Watercolour of a settler's wooden house and shed in a clearing with tree stumps, forest behind, blue sky.

Settler's home, Merton, near New Plymouth

James Crowe Richmond, 1851

Pen and watercolor drawing of a riverbank with a domed building, logs, a wooden trestle, and rushing water near Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

Harry Fenn, 1860

Pencil sketch of a distant town with a church tower and trees under a pale sky, over flat ground.

Rye, Sussex

Thomas Girtin, 1795

Sheet of Studies [recto]

Leonardo da Vinci, 1470

Watercolor street view of a towered stone gatehouse with an archway, brick buildings, pedestrians, and a horse-drawn carriage

Whitehall Showing Holbein's Gate and Banqueting Hall

Thomas Sandby, 1760

Pen sketch of a horse-drawn coach and crowd in a busy street, with loose studies of galloping horses below.

The Coach

Grey wash drawing of a riverside terrace with sailboats on a wide river and a domed church on the distant skyline.

View of London from Richmond House, Whitehall

Giovanni Antonio Canal

Watercolor of a wooden toddy ladle with a metal-banded bowl and long turned handle on a cream background.

Toddy Ladle

Douglas Campbell, c. 1939

Pen and wash drawing of a nude male figure supporting a tall candelabrum with an urn-shaped base on a plinth.

Twee ontwerpen voor kandelaars

Giuseppe Cades, 1795

Pencil sketch of a church porch with arched doorway, timber belfry and thatched roof, with a seated figure at left.

Porch and Belfry of Thurgarton Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1810

Pencil sketches of ornate candelabra with cherubs and scrolling bases on brown paper.

Ontwerpen voor kandelaars

Henri Cameré, 1864

Night scene of a burning Leiden street after an explosion, with crowds on a canal bridge and collapsed houses under smoky ski

Lodewijk Napoleon bezoekt de ruïnes op het Rapenburg te Leiden na de ontploffing van het kruitschip op 12 januari 1807

Jan Willem Pieneman, 1807

Costume design of the White Rabbit in blue coat and checkered vest holding a pocket watch, with a blue coat sketch below.

White Rabbit (costume design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson, 1910

Ink drawing of a decorative frieze with two bands of wavy lines and repeating stylized flower motifs on pale paper.

Ontwerp voor een fries met bloemmotief

Theo Nieuwenhuis, 1911

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long dress and bonnet on a sketchbook page, with light blue pencil accents.

Sketch of a female figure in a long dress and bonnet

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Pencil drawing of a Gothic sedilia with tracery arches and stone steps set into a church wall.

A Sedilia in Upwell Church, Norfolk

John Sell Cotman, 1816

Pencil and blue-tinted drawing of an inverted nude male figure with arms raised, on cream paper.

An Angel with a Trumpet

William Blake, 1805

Two men in blue coats and bicorne hats sit on a stone wall before tall trees, one holding a striped umbrella.

Soldiers of the Empire

Filippo Indoni, 1880

Watercolor of a copper sugar dipper with a wooden handle banded in brass, shown on a pale background.

Sugar Dipper

Annie B. Johnston, c. 1938

Pencil sketch of a man's head in three-quarter view on tan paper, with handwritten ink notes along the bottom edge.

A Visionary Head

William Blake, 1819

Pencil and charcoal sketch of a dark arched footbridge with two figures above, drawn on a sketchbook page.

Little bridge (?)

James Ensor, 1889

Drawing of a kneeling woman gazing up at a glowing risen figure in an arch, with two kneeling angels beside a tomb.

Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre

William Blake, 1805

Painting of a crowned king at a feast while servants drag a bound man past a stone archway, within a colorful border.

Parable of the Marriage of the King's Son

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Pencil drawing of a lake with pine-lined shores, a small wooded island, distant hills and tree reflections in the water.

Lakeside Landscape from Haminalahti

Magnus von Wright, 1854

Watercolor of a copper sugar dipper with a wooden handle and metal ferrule, tilted against a plain cream background.

Sugar Dipper

Annie B. Johnston, c. 1939

Pencil sketch of a winged nude figure seated with raised arms, wild hair and a distressed expression.

Albion Compelling the Four Zoas to Their Proper Tasks

William Blake, 1804

Pencil sketch of a wooden waterwheel and gabled mill beside a timber-framed house, with trees and a stream in the foreground.

Mill in Wertheim

Fritz Bamberger, 1839

Pencil sketch of two birds perched on a branch beside a leaf, with a third bird in flight above.

Chinoiserie, three birds

Painted design study with classical figures for library wall bays, showing Apollo, Pallas, Hephaestus and Hermes in arched pa

Sketches for a Decoration of a Private Library "B"

Kenyon Cox, 1890