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Drawings & Sketches

79,593 works

Watercolor drawing of a raised drawbridge over a canal with pedestrians, brick houses and a cigar shop under cloudy sky.

Gezicht op de Sloterkade

Hobbe Smith, 1872

Watercolor of a Dutch village street with brick houses, a canal, a wooden footbridge and figures by a gate.

Gezicht op de Voorweg, gezien naar werf en molen De Eendracht

Anthonie van den Bos, 1773

Watercolor of a tree-lined road beside a canal with pedestrians, a handcart, a street lamp, and a windmill on the right.

Gezicht op de Singelweg met rechts molen De Wolf

Johan Martinus Anthon Rieke, 1861

Watercolor of a white windmill beside a canal with a drawbridge, two more windmills and trees under a cloudy sky.

Gezicht op molens De Wolf, De Star en De Kat vanaf de Singelweg

Johan Martinus Anthon Rieke, 1861

Brown wash drawing of a windmill behind thatched cottages and trees beside a canal.

Gezicht op molen Het Blok

George Pieter Westenberg, 1801

Pen and ink sketch of soldiers at a camp tent with a woman serving at a table, a horse, and a kettle over a fire.

Lotta Svärd-runon alkuvinjetti

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Watercolor drawing of a windmill over red-roofed houses by a canal, with a pedestrian and street lamp on the quay.

Gezicht op molen De Jager aan de Middenweg

Hobbe Smith, 1872

Pen drawing of an enthroned Madonna and Child with Saint Christopher, two angels, and two kneeling donors.

Thronende Madonna mit dem Heiligen Christophorus, zwei Engeln und zwei Stiftern

Hans Burgkmair, 1503

Pen and watercolor drawing of a Cornish cottage with cattle, a horse, figures and trees along a rural road.

Launcetown Cornwall

Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1789

Brown wash drawing of a night river landscape with dense trees, a moon, figures by a fire, and a ruined tower.

Nächtliche Flußlandschaft

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1780

Pencil and wash drawing of a pewter cream pitcher with a looping handle and beaded foot on a cream background.

Pewter Cream Pitcher

Fritz Boehmer, c. 1939

Drawing of a seated male nude with raised arms, rendered in black chalk and white highlights on blue-grey paper.

Male Nude Leaning on a Ladder

Pompeo Batoni, 1765

Sketch on tan paper with graphite and red chalk studies of hands, a torso, and a face at upper right.

Sketches of Heads and Hands

Watercolor drawing of a village square with a church tower, a stone well, market figures, horses and thatched cottages.

St. Cullum's, Cornwall

Thomas Rowlandson, n.d.

Watercolor of pale chalk cliffs above a pebbled shore with a small figure and blue sea at right.

Hellede Klint, Refsnæs

Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1843

Kolistin's Old Man

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1907

Pen and watercolor drawing of cattle driven past a village church, with a horseman, a drover, and cottages.

Stanley St. Leonard Church, Gloucestershire

Thomas Rowlandson, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a standing figure in a robe and plumed hat gesturing toward a seated figure on a pale sheet.

Unidentified illustration (to a Shakespeare play?)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil and colored pencil drawing of a pewter ladle with a wooden handle, shown in three views with a scale diagram below.

Pewter Ladle

Henry Meyers, c. 1936

Ink drawing of an elderly man with a walking stick on a path, with haystacks and farm buildings in the fields behind him.

Sotavanhus

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Red chalk drawing with studies of two nude children and a draped cloth on tan paper, with faint transfer grid lines.

Two Nude Children Lifting a Cudgel

Pompeo Batoni, 1748

Watercolor street scene of a crowd at an auction of old houses near Westminster Abbey, with an auctioneer and lot-numbered bu

Demolition of Old Houses to the North of Westminster Abbey

Thomas Rowlandson, 1800

Watercolor of a fisherman beside an orange boat on a shore, with brown-sailed boats on the sea under a cloudy sky.

Fishing boat on the shore at Hastings

Charles Bentley, 1835-1864

Elaborate Neapolitan nativity crèche with angels, shepherds, livestock, and townspeople among ruined arches.

Crèche

Unknown artist, 1725-75, with later additions

Red chalk drawing of a nude male figure reclining with head tilted back, one leg extended, on tan paper.

Male Nude Reclining on a Bed

Pompeo Batoni, 1745

Chalk portrait of an older woman in a lace bonnet and ruffled collar, hands folded, on a brown toned background.

Eine Dame mit Spitzenhäubchen

Ink drawing of a stylized man on a column above erupting volcanoes, smoke and a ruined city under a starry sky.

"Die Erde bebt", aus: Zyklus "Vom Gestern zum Morgen" ("Grotesken")

Karl Wiener, 1942

Brown ink drawing of a classical triumph with Cupid on a pedestal, chained captives, a chariot wheel and floating allegorical

Triumph of Love (after antique bas-relief)

Brown wash drawing of a mountain above a lake, with trees in the foreground and clouds in the sky.

Näkymä Monte Cavosta

Alexander Lauréus, 1821

Colored drawing of a carved wooden pitcher with a red flower, zigzag border, green base and angular handle.

Carved Wooden Pitcher

William H. Edwards, c. 1940

Pencil sketch of stylized figures with raised arms on cream paper, with a handwritten caption in the lower left.

"Die Erhebung" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1930

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a country road with walking figures, a tree cluster on the right, and distant hills.

Country road

Wilhelm Amandus Beer