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Drawings & Sketches

79,543 works

Grey wash drawing of Cain with a staff in a landscape, a fallen figure and smoke behind him, framed by a scrolled border.

Cain and Abel

Johann Jakob von Sandrart

Brown ink and wash drawing of a city street with figures on stone steps before a columned palace entrance.

Sophronia Enters the Palace of Aladin

Andrea Boscoli, 1604/06

The Artist Aukusti Uotila, study for Duke Karl Insulting the Corpse of Klaus Fleming

Albert Edelfelt, 1878

Pencil study of a bearded seated man draped in a cloak, one leg extended, on a stone ledge.

Study of a Kneeling Saint

Orazio Samacchini, 1570/75

Pen and watercolor sketch of a San family with children, women cooking over a fire and a pot, under a tree.

San-huishouden met vuur en kookpotten

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1779

Watercolor of a group of people by a fire on a beach, with a woman nursing a child, an archer, and rounded huts behind them.

Homestead of the so-called Strandlopers (San or Khoikhoi) just north of the Orange River’s mouth

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1779

Drawing of a knife and sheath with carved bird finials, geometric patterns and Dutch handwritten notes.

A Tswana or Kora knife with its sheath

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Brown wash drawing of Christ bound to a column while figures with whips and armed soldiers surround him in a stone interior.

The Flagellation of Christ

Palma il Giovane, by 1594

Watercolor drawing of a stone cairn topped with an animal skull and bones, with mountains and huts in the background.

Grave of a Khoisan chieftain

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1779

Watercolor drawing of a tent tortoise with a dark shell and yellow radiating lines, walking past a shrub and rocks.

Psammobates tentorius (Tent tortoise)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor of a small covered boat with two figures on misty lake water, blue mountains and pale clouds beyond.

Rain, Bellagio

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Two hand-coloured tortoises walk side by side across sandy ground with small plants and pebbles, with a Dutch inscription bel

Homopus areolatus (Common padloper tortoise)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Pastel and pencil drawing of a green and yellow geometric lattice design with triangles and a scalloped cloud shape on tan pa

Lattice motif for the polychrome of the Franciscan Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Brown ink and wash drawing of a fallen rider and startled horses under a beam of light from heaven, with a walled city.

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Ludovico Carracci, 1587/89

Watercolor of a Namaqua chameleon with extended tongue perched on a branch with green conifer sprigs.

Chamaeleo namaquensis (Namaqua chameleon)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Three green chameleons on a branch, one extending its tongue to catch a fly, drawn in watercolor and ink.

Bradypodion pumilum in three poses (Cape dwarf chameleon)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Pen and watercolor drawing of a green chameleon with a curled tail on a branch, with a Dutch caption below.

Bradypodion pumilum (Cape dwarf chameleon)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Agama atra (Southern rock agama)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a spiny agama lizard with banded tail walking over pale ground beside sparse plants.

Agama hispida (Southern spiny agama)

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1778

Black chalk drawing of a reclining muscular male nude, Hercules, with studies of a head and foot on blue paper.

Study of Hercules Resting, with Separate Studies of His Head and Foot (recto); Rectangular grid design (verso)

Annibale Carracci, 1595/97

Costume design sketch of a girl with blonde hair, blue dress and white apron on brown paper.

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

William Penhallow Henderson, 1910

Grey wash drawing of an old man fleeing with two women past a distant city under a stormy sky, in an ornate frame.

Lot flieht mit seinen Töchtern aus Sodom

Johann Jakob von Sandrart

Pencil sketch of a horse seen from behind with a second faint horse study at right, on pale paper.

Studies of a Horse

Edgar Degas, 1868/75

Charcoal sketch of a fierce, caricatured warrior leaning forward with flowing hair and a billowing robe, by James Ensor.

Chinoiserie, a warrior

James Ensor, 1885

Grey wash drawing of a man and woman embracing in an ornate interior with a canopied bed and an open trunk.

De vlucht van Hugo de Groot, 1621

Simon Fokke, 1742

Grey wash drawing of an allegorical female statue holding an olive branch and scepter, with books, a globe and a rural landsc

Het standbeeld van de Vrede, 1748

Simon Fokke, 1748

Watercolor of the tiered stone arches of the Pont du Gard aqueduct under a blue sky, with green hills behind.

Pont du Gard, France

Cass Gilbert, 1920

Grey wash allegory by Simon Fokke showing female figures, putti, an ox, and the word PAX beneath classical architecture.

Allegorie op de Vrede van Aken, 1748

Simon Fokke, 1749

Outline of a female figure

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1890

Pencil drawing of an allegorical scene with classical architecture, robed figures, putti, a horseman and a winged figure amon

Allegorie op het jubileum van Nederlands Vrijheid, 1648-1748

Simon Fokke, 1748

Grey wash drawing of a covered carriage on a road with armed men with pikes, trees, and a castle in the distance.

Luther gevangen genomen

Simon Fokke, 1722

Grey wash title page design with a central Holy Family scene, cherubs, biblical roundels and the banner Christelyke Zeden Spi

Ontwerp voor titelblad: Christelyke Zeden Spiegel

Simon Fokke, 1741