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Drawings & Sketches

79,543 works

Pencil and watercolour botanical study of Forstera sedifolia with white flowers on thin stems and a flower dissection.

Forstera sedifolia Linn.f. (now known as Forstera sedifolia G. Forst.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Pen and ink study of a reclining armored effigy on a tomb, with detail sketches of a foot, hand and ornament below.

Tracing from the alabaster tomb of Barzy in the Chapel of Blessed Imelda in the Church of Corpus Christi in Lviv

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Ink and watercolor drawing of a nude man embraced by a woman in blue drapery, with a hooded torch bearer beside the sea.

Leander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont

William Hamilton

Pencil drawing of a group of young slender trees with feathery foliage leaning together over low ground vegetation.

Gruppe junger Bäume an der Partnach Klamm

Fritz Bamberger, 1839

Charcoal sketch of dark clouds over water with a small boat and figure on a tan sketchbook page.

Sketch in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pencil sketch of an abstract composition with geometric lines and a central face with wide eyes, on cream paper.

"Das Trümmerbild" (Entwurf)

Karl Wiener, 1944

Portrait of Richard Cosway

William Daniell, 1808

Watercolor of a sunlit dusty street in an adobe pueblo, with flat-roofed stone houses, ladders and clay pots.

Street in the Pueblo of Oraibi, Tusayan, Arizona

De Lancey Gill, 1880

Loose pencil sketch of a woman in a bonnet with a curled collar ornament and a hand drawn in the lower left.

Naisfiguuri, harjoitelma

Pencil sketch of a woman's face with closed eyes and a raised hand outlined above, on a buff paper sheet.

Outline of a Woman's Face

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Painted drawing of a brass eagle door knocker with a blank shield, spread wings, and a laurel branch on a cream background.

Door Knocker

Frank Gray, c. 1940

Pen and ink sketch of a grotesque female head with an open mouth and curly hair, surrounded by loose flourishes.

Grotesque Female Head

William Hogarth

Brown and cream painted study of a dormouse seated upright with paws together and a curling tail on brown paper.

Dormouse (costume design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curly dark hair, pearl hair ornament, white ruffled dress and blue sash.

Mrs. Joseph Manigault (Charlotte Drayton)

Edward Greene Malbone, 1800

Pencil sketch of a felled pine trunk with spreading branches lying among shrubs and grass on a forest floor.

Abgesägter Nadelbaum bei Starnberg

Fritz Bamberger, 1865

Painting of a bearded man in a yellow cloak gesturing to two turbaned men beside a stone building, with workers near a fence.

Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Hand-painted entomology plate XVII showing eight numbered insects including grasshoppers, a mantis-like insect, cockroaches a

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

George Hudson, 1886

Grotesque Male Head

William Hogarth

Watercolor of a standing man in a white turban and orange robe beside leopard skins, vases, textiles and a banana plant.

Figure of a Moor

Carlo Ascenzi, 1880

Watercolour landscape of a wide plateau with a lake, a castle and arched aqueduct in the foreground, and mountains beyond.

Weite Hochebene mit See, im Vordergrund Kastell und Aquädukt

Fritz Bamberger

Pencil drawing of a decorative drain head with embossed stars, a crescent moon, and a rope molding on a plain background.

Drain Head

Herbert Barnard, c. 1941

Watercolour of fishing boats and a large sailing ship on choppy sea under a warm evening sky.

Off the French coast

John Sell Cotman, 1834

Ink drawing of ornate sixteenth-century book binding designs with floral scrollwork and a figure in an arched panel.

Drawing copies from sixteenth-century Italian book bindings

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1888

Pencil sketchbook page with studies of a walking figure's legs and feet and a rounded animal form at left.

Sketch of a walking figure

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1870

Colored drawing of a brass lion-head knocker with ring, front and side views, with a scale bar.

Drawer Pull

Philip Johnson, c. 1936

Pen and ink sketch of a Roman garden with trees, potted agave plants, a trellis and a stone path.

Park in Rome

Albert Edelfelt, 1876

Watercolour and ink drawing of a cottage with red roof, a bare tree and a grazing calf on a hillside.

Cottage and calf

Raymond McIntyre

Study of a skull

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1880

Pencil sketch of a sailing boat with masts and rigging on calm water, with a faint shoreline at left.

Sail boat

Fritz Bamberger

Red chalk sketch of a reclining figure in a uniform, drawn with loose diagonal hatching on pale paper.

Two studies of a dead soldier

Pen and ink drawing of a muscular man pressing down on a skeleton, which sprawls beneath him on the sheet.

George Taylor's Epitaph: George Taylor Breaking the Ribs of Death

William Hogarth, 1750

Pencil sketch of a nude male figure at an easel beside a draped female figure among columns and a tiled floor.

Sketch to Apollo and Melpomene

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896