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Drawings & Sketches

79,593 works

Pen and watercolor drawing of a crowned king with a sword, a jester, and an elderly seated man beside an hourglass.

Herod the Great in Bethlehem

Self-portrait. Bust-length, profile to the right

Wilhelm Bendz, 1831

Pencil and watercolor design for a pointed-arch stained glass window showing a galloping horse with a rider and a skeleton.

Kuolema ja nälkä, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon lasimaalausta varten. Kahden puolen kirjaimet r ja i

Watercolor and ink landscape of rolling mountains and a valley under cloudy sky, with a stone wall in the foreground.

The Vale of Ambleside, Wansfell

Edwin Austin Abbey

Ink drawing of a stylized woman with raised arm, bonnet and checkered skirt standing on grass, signed K.W.

Die Dicke

Karl Wiener, 1920

Gridded point paper design with stylized pink water lilies, green lily pads and swirling water, hand-painted in watercolor.

Point Paper (mise-en-carte)

France Roubaix, c. 1880

Pencil sketches by Akseli Gallen-Kallela showing a prone figure, a wolf, and branches within framed panels on cream paper.

Sudenkuoppa, kaksi luonnosta 6. luvun otsakuvaan

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Watercolor of soldiers loading a cart outside a village inn, with onlookers, dogs, thatched cottages and hills behind.

Soldaten an einem Wirtshaus

Thomas Rowlandson

Watercolor of cavalry soldiers tending horses in a stable, with a woman, dogs and hens on the straw floor.

Kavalerister i en stald

Johann Adam Klein, 1792-1875

Drawing of a clear pressed glass oil lamp with round bosses on its font and a flared hexagonal base, shaded in gray.

Lamp

Lawrence Phillips, c. 1940

Loose watercolor washes in grey, green, and yellow on paper, with faint suggestions of a landscape and white reserved highlig

Unidentified sketch - landscape (?)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Boy with bird

Giuseppe Ghedini

Pencil sketch of a girl sleeping on her side, head on her arm, with a blanket and pillow around her.

Resting girl

Wilhelm Amandus Beer

Pen and ink sketch of a young woman in a headscarf and long dress holding a spindle, with faint handwriting behind.

Ranskalainen maalaistyttö (Tyttö ja värttinä)

Helene Schjerfbeck, 1881

Grey-toned drawing of a clear glass spark lamp with a wick and pedestal base, signed John Dana.

Spark Lamp

John Dana, c. 1936

Die drei Gesichter

Karl Wiener, 1942

Grey wash drawing of mythological figures in a rescue scene, with two nude young men pulling a draped woman away from a falle

Amphion and Zethus Delivering their Mother Antiope from the Fury of Dirce and Lycus

John Flaxman, 1789

Watercolor drawing of a bearded seated man playing a harp, framed by ornate interlace knotwork and bird motifs.

Brage

Johan Thomas Lundbye Lorenz Frølich, 1844

Colored drawing of a seated sickly man flanked by a woman in green and a hooded figure, under a sign reading Alkohol Syphilis

Die drei Volksseuchen

Karl Wiener, 1926

Charcoal sketch of a seated nude man seen from behind, wearing a cap, with knees drawn up.

Istuva alaston mies, malliharjoitelma

Ellen Thesleff, 1891

Watercolor sketch of moored sailing boats on a river beside trees, a thatched cottage, and a church tower in the distance.

Newport

Thomas Rowlandson, n.d.

Sepia drawing of a street with gabled houses, a tree and a lone pedestrian under a cloudy sky.

Gezicht op de Overtoom, gezien naar de Sloterkade

Anthonie van Teijn, 1927

"Die dunkle Sternennacht", "Drei Männer" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1942

Loose watercolor and ink sketch of a man in a top hat sweeping a walkway beside an arched doorway and green shrubs.

Man in tophat and shirtsleeves sweeping a walkway

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil drawing of a large windmill beside a canal with wooden sheds, moored boats, houses and a tower behind it.

Gezicht op de Zaagmolensloot, gezien naar molen De Ruiter

Frederik Willem Zürcher, 1845

Watercolor of a canal with a wooden bridge, sluice, and tall trees, with distant houses and a tower under a pale sky.

Gezicht op het Singel bij de Weteringpoort

Johannes Ludovicus van den Bos, 1808

Watercolor view through a window of houses, bare trees and a yard, with a blue jug and books on the sill.

Gezicht op de Middenweg

Albert Martin, 1837

Watercolor of a town view through a window, with a windmill, brick gabled houses, and a jug and hat on the sill.

Gezicht op de Haarlemmerweg

Albert Martin, 1837

Watercolor of a village edge with brick houses, windmills, chickens in grass and smoking chimneys under a pale sky.

Gezicht op de Voorweg

Albert Martin, 1892

Grey wash drawing of a canal with gabled houses, moored boats, a sailing ship and a distant church spire.

Gezicht op het einde van de Overtoom

Jan van Kessel, 1651

Pen and watercolor drawing of a coach changing horses in a busy inn yard, with passengers, a horn player and dogs.

Coach Changing Horses

Thomas Rowlandson, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of two raised drawbridges over a canal with houses, a boatman, and a couple with a dog on the quay.

Gezicht op de Dubbele Buurt aan het einde van de Overtoom

Pieter van der Meulen, 1810