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Drawings & Sketches

79,543 works

Ink and watercolor drawing of a burning steamship at sea, with survivors in lifeboats amid rough waves and an erupting cliff

Burning of the Steamship Austria

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Pencil sketch of a cello scroll in front of a crowded theatre audience and seated musicians.

Audience at a Parisian Theatre II

Giovanni Boldini, c. 1885

Sepia watercolor of robed monks climbing a stone staircase under vaulted arches, with light streaming in from one side.

Monks on the Staircase of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli

François Marius Granet, c. 1826

Colored drawing of a painted wooden cigar store Indian figure with feathered headdress, raised arm, and magenta cape.

Cigar Store Indian

Mina Lowry, c. 1937

Watercolor of a Bruges canal with a stone arched bridge, two boats, gabled houses with red roofs, and church spires.

On the Canal, Bruges

Cass Gilbert, 1920

Pen and ink sketch of armed bandits confronting seated travelers beside a stagecoach, with wounded figures on the ground.

The Stagecoach Holdup

Bartolomeo Pinelli, n.d.

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark hair and blue eyes, wearing a red coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Alexander Rose

Pierre Henri, 1780

Watercolor of wilted, ruffled tulips in a green glass vase with a sketched butterfly above and weathered boards behind.

Tulips

Andrey Avinoff, 1940

Pen and grey wash drawing of costumed figures playing cards outdoors beneath a tree, one man looking toward the viewer.

Kartenspielpartie im Freien

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Oil sketch of a nude woman beside a dead lion in an arena, with draped onlookers in the background and figures at right.

Study to the Painting "Christian Dirce

Henryk Siemiradzki

Pencil drawing of a winged genius playing violin on a cloud, surrounded by angels and putti, with a squared grid.

Geigender Genius auf einer Wolke, von Engel umgeben

Johann Baptist Scholl

Black-ink side elevation drawing of a three-story house with balustrade, cornice, arched entrance and red dimension lines.

Bryan Lathrop House, Chicago, Illinois, Side Elevation

McKim, Mead and White, c. 1892

Grey-toned drawing of a nude classical male statue standing on a pedestal beside a tree stump, by Henri Guillaume Chatillon.

Apollo or Adonis

Henri Guillaume Chatillon, 1818

Watercolor of a whitewashed stone building with an arched doorway and two small figures in a grassy yard.

St. Augustine

Howard Russell Butler

Cubist still life with a fruit bowl, apples, a blue and white pitcher and a red patterned cloth in muted greens.

Still Life

Earl Horter, 1930

Pencil sketches of a standing man with a round object and a reclining figure beside a bed next to a standing man.

Luonnos pojasta, joka seisoo sängyn jalan vieressä sekä luonnos talonpojasta, jolla on vesipullo vierellään

Berndt Abraham Godenhjelm

Ink and wash architectural drawing of vestibule door elevations with arched fanlight, pilasters, and paneled walls, labeled O

Vestibule Doors, Bryan Lathrop House, Chicago, Illinois, Shop Drawing

McKim, Mead and White, 1892

Watercolor portrait of a man with brown hair and dark collar against a green wash, with loose foliage at right.

Self-Portrait

Seth Wells Cheney, 1830

Tan sheet with blurred dark charcoal masses and faint grid lines, a trial proof for church polychromy by Wyspiański.

Chamomile. Trial proof for the polychromy of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of a grove of tall trees by a dark river, with a red-roofed cottage at right and a cloudy sky above.

Grove of Trees (recto), Sketch of Aderley Church (verso)

Peter De Wint, c. 1830

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, in an engraved gold frame.

Dr. Joseph Glover

Charles Fraser, 1820

Charcoal and chalk portrait of a young man with short hair, head bowed, wearing a high collar and cravat.

John Cheney

Seth Wells Cheney, 1830

Charcoal drawing of a large tree with a woman reaching upward and a small winged child leaping beside her.

Venus Disarming Cupid

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1852/57

Hazy seascape of sailing boats and a rowboat with figures on calm water under a glowing sun.

Marine Study

Franklin Dullin Briscoe, 1900

Naisen muotokuva

Severin Falkman, 1870

Pencil drawing of a windmill on a grassy hilltop with a rocky outcrop and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landscape with Mill

Seth Wells Cheney, 1835

Grey-washed drawing of a woman with a switch scolding a toddler held by another woman beside a wicker cradle.

Ein Kind, das nicht beten will (Persiflage auf die betenden Kinder von Meyer von Bremen, Becker und andere)

Johann Baptist Scholl

Pencil drawing of a thatched cottage and an overturned boat on a grassy shore, with a cliff rising behind.

House and Boat at the Shore

Seth Wells Cheney, 1835

Water Lily in Sunlight

Water Lily in Sunlight

John La Farge, 1880

Pencil drawing of a seated woman with an infant, flanked by a kneeling crowned figure and a standing figure with a staff, abo

Spring

Johann Baptist Scholl

Pencil sketch of a circular church window with a grid of panes, curved mullions and faint rose vine motifs.

Pyöreä lasimaalausikkuna, ruusuköynnös, ikkunan ruutujalo. Luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lasimaalauksiin

Pen and ink landscape drawing of Saint George on horseback fighting a dragon, with a kneeling figure and distant mountains.

Landscape with Saint George and the Dragon and the Monte Soratte

Joseph Anton Koch, c. 1816