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Drawings & Sketches

79,357 works

Watercolor of a pink-flowered lambkill shrub with narrow green leaves on two branches against a pale background.

Lambkill (Kalmia angustifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Brown wash drawing of a nude winged youth and a seated draped woman beside a lyre and tree in a landscape.

The Muse Erato Writing Verses Inspired by Love

Charles Meynier, 1797

Chalk portrait of a young man in a blue uniform with a sash, writing with a quill at a table.

Kreivi Hjalmar Mörner

Alexander Lauréus, 1800

Watercolor of a deerberry branch with clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers and elongated green leaves.

Deerberry (Polycodium stamineum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil drawing of a bald man with a sidelong, intense stare, shaded face and dark collar, captioned Der Lauernde.

Der Lauernde

Karl Wiener, 1922

Brown wash drawing of a causeway with railings crossing water toward wooded shores, a small house, and distant hills under a

Porrassalmi Strait, original drawing for Finland Depicted in Drawings

Pehr Adolf Kruskopf

Pencil drawing of a footed pressed-glass vase with scalloped rim and geometric cut pattern on white paper.

Vase

Lillian Causey, c. 1937

Brown sketch of firefighters on a ladder by a burned building beside a tree, with a thatched house at right.

Brandstätte mit löschender Mannschaft

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Brown wash drawing of allegorical figures on clouds, including an armored goddess, winged torch-bearer, lions, and laurel-cro

Earth Receiving the Code of Roman Law from the Emperors Hadrian and Justinian

Charles Meynier, 1802

Pen and ink sketch of a woman sweeping a room, with a large jug at left and a figure in a doorway at right.

Frau Knopp beim Hausputz

Wilhelm Busch, 1876

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a dark coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

George Washington Rodgers

George Washington Rodgers, 1820

Pen sketch of a stout man in a hat walking through a room past a curtain, with a small figure at lower left.

Herr Knopp durchschreitet einen Raum

Wilhelm Busch, 1876

Watercolor of two sprigs of pink heather with green needle-like leaves and clusters of bell-shaped pink flowers on a pale bac

Pink Heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor botanical study of a partridgeberry sprig with small green leaves, white pink-tinged flowers and one brown berry.

Partridgeberry (Mitchella repena)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Front and side elevation drawings of a red secretary desk with glazed bookcase, with small dimensioned detail sketches below.

Secretary

Henry Meyers, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a white-flowered Northern Bedstraw stem with whorled green leaves on a cream background.

Northern Bedstraw (Galium boreale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Ink sketch of a brooding man's head beside a standing figure in a red coat holding a curved sabre.

Kaksinkertainen kirjoituspaperi, jossa omakuva sekä venäläinen kasakka

Albert Edelfelt, 1903

Watercolor of a lodgepole pine branch with green yellow-tipped needles and clustered reddish-brown cones on a pale background

Lodgepole Pine (Pinus Contorta murrayana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a top-hatted man smoking and riding an old tricycle, framed in a circle on an ornate lamp post, 1913.

Der Letzte seines Stammes

Hans Schließmann, 1913

Watercolor of Canada wild ginger with heart-shaped green leaves and two dark maroon flowers on hairy stems.

Canada Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Colored pencil drawing of a red painted writing desk with turned legs, plus three small measured elevation sketches below.

Writing Desk and Table

Henry Meyers, 1935/1942

Watercolor of blue beard-tongue stems with tubular blue and lavender flowers and green leaves on cream paper.

Blue Beard-Tongue (Pentstemon)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a wood secretary desk with leaded glass doors, four drawers and oval painted panels, with a pencil plan above.

Desk

Henry Meyers, 1935/1942

Framed miniature portrait of a seated older woman in white shawl and glasses holding knitting needles, with the velvet-lined

Woman Knitting

Mary Ursula Whitlock, 1900

Watercolor of an octagonal log block house with a shingled roof on a grassy hill, with evergreens and mountains behind.

Russian Block House, Alaska, 1900

Theodore J. Richardson, 1900

Ink drawing of a rooster standing before a sun-like disc with radiating lines, by Albert Edelfelt, 1897.

Kuormarenki-runon kukkoaiheinen loppuvinjetti, originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitukseen

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Watercolor drawing of a turned wooden side table with a drawer and double stretcher, signed by Frederick Jackson.

Table

Frederick Jackson, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a California fuchsia stem with red tubular flowers, buds, and narrow green leaves on a beige background.

California Fuschia (Zauschneria californica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of the Yellowstone River with a rider, a canoe, cottonwood trees, tipis and distant bluffs.

The Yellowstone River near Ft. Keogh, Montana

Hermann Stieffel, 1880

Pencil sketch of a log cottage with a stone chimney and fence, surrounded by grass and pine trees.

Crofter's Cottage in the Village of Juttila

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, 1892

Watercolor drawing of a walnut chair with a carved shell crest, green upholstered seat, and cabriole legs on a pale backgroun

Walnut Chair

Frederick Jackson, 1935/1942

Watercolor of white Dutchman's breeches flowers with yellow tips on slender stems above delicate green fern-like leaves.

Dutchman's Breetches (Bikukulla cucullaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920