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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Watercolor of an Elizabethan room with carved fireplace, stained glass windows, and figures playing lute beside a sleeping do

An Elizabethan Room at Lyme Hall, Cheshire

Joseph Nash, 1870

Painted chalkware object with a yellow textured fruit, green leaves, a red bud, and a flower-decorated pedestal base.

Chalkware

Mina Lowry, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a domestic music party with a harpist, violinist, cellist, pianist and a seated spaniel in a panelled room.

The Music Party

Pencil sketch of Olavinlinna castle with round towers across water, with sailing boats sketched at left.

Olavinlinna, vasemmalla kolme luonnosteltua vierekkäistä purjevenettä

Pehr Adolf Kruskopf

Watercolor of a sunlit music room with a grand piano, caned chairs, gilt-framed paintings, and tall windows.

The Music Room of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)

Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, 1840

Miehen pää

Anders Ekman, 1853

Circular print of the interior nave of Saint Peter's in Rome, with a coffered vault, side aisles, and a distant altar canopy.

Interior View of the Nave, Saint Peter's, Rome, Looking Toward the Altar

Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, 1740

Watercolor of a floral full-skirted dress with lace cape collar and long gathered sleeves, shown on a pale background.

Dress with Cape Collar

Mina Lowry, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a 19th-century salon with portraits on the walls, a gilded chandelier, and a seated couple by the windows.

A Salon in a Residence of the Duke of Leuchtenberg

Otto Wagner, 1850

Pen drawing of a spiral staircase with elevation, circular plan with numbered radial divisions, and detailed tread sections.

Elevation and Plan View for a Spiral Staircase

Adolph Bordeaux, 1880

Watercolor of a red-walled Roman interior with green curtains, marble floor, ornate ceiling and a framed painting.

Sala del Thorvaldsen, Rome

Franz Heinrich, 1840

Wallpaper design with blue acanthus motifs set within a trellis of dark vines and small flowers on a peach ground.

Wallpaper

Paul Farkas, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a 19th-century drawing room with blue curtains, a chandelier, a piano, and figures seated around a table.

Drawing Room

English School, 1840

Pen and watercolour sketch of smiths working at an anvil by a glowing forge, with smoke and a cliff in the background.

The Forging of the Sampo

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Wall design with pale blue flowers, green leaves, orange ribbon bows and a white frieze band on a grey ground.

Wallpaper

Nicholas Acampora, 1935/1942

Watercolor of a Gothic dining hall with paneled walls, stained glass, portraits, a laid table, and figures in period dress.

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford

Joseph Nash, 1850

Ink drawing of a decorative letter O entwined with a rose, leaves, a thorned stem and a small bird on yellowed paper.

Wilhelm von Schwerin -runon alkukirjain O, originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitukseen (ruots. painos)

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Horizontal wallpaper border design with repeating green leaves, dark berry shapes, and red and green bands on cream paper.

Wallpaper Border

Paul Farkas, c. 1939

Watercolor of a circular neoclassical room with a large chandelier, columns, and three women in white dresses.

The Circular Dining Room at Carlton House, London

Charles Wild, 1810

Two young women sit outdoors under trees, one in a brown dress and one in grey with a red hat, binding garlands.

Girls Binding Garlands (The Artist's Sisters Annie and Berta Binding Garlands), study

Albert Edelfelt, 1886

Muted watercolor of a flat shoreline with silhouetted factory chimneys on the left, small boats on the horizon, and a heavy c

Southampton Water

Attributed to James McNeill Whistler, 1887

Sepia interior of a man reading a letter at a desk by lamplight, with a child and dog by the fireplace.

Interior with a Man Reading at His Desk

A. L. Leroy, 1820

Ink drawing of a small village with a church tower, gabled houses and fir trees under sweeping clouds.

Dörfchen

Karl Wiener, 1922

Watercolor of a salon with blue drapery, gilt chandelier, framed landscapes, sculptures, and a piano, seen through open doors

A Salon in Restoration Taste

Hilaire Thierry, 1820

Painted study of ruined columns of a temple rising over a green plain with distant mountains under a pale sky.

Study of the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus

Lockwood de Forest, 1870

Charcoal sketch of a seated man in a brimmed hat, shown from behind, with arms resting on knees, signed Fanny Churberg 1873.

Istuva mies

Fanny Churberg, 1873

Watercolor of a 19th-century man's living room with green drapery, a patterned rug, framed pictures and a bed.

Interior of a Man's Living Room

S. Tolstoi, 1850

Pen and wash drawing of Hercules raising a club while struggling with a three-headed dog in a rocky landscape.

Hercules

Richard van Orley, n.d.

Horizontal wallpaper border design in green with tan roses, a ribbon bow, teal leaves, and a beaded bottom band.

Wallpaper

Paul Farkas, c. 1939

Watercolor of an ornate bedroom with a canopied bed, painted domed ceiling, gilded columns and sunburst floor.

Bedroom of King Pedro IV of Portugal (Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil), Palace of Queluz

Ferdinand le Feubure, 1850

Ink and wash drawing of a grand church interior with coffered vaults, columns, and a crowd of figures on the floor.

Interior of St. Peter's Illuminated

Louis Jean Desprez, 1770

Painted wallpaper border design with repeated gold and brown tassel motifs on a dark green field, framed by striped bands.

Wallpaper

Walter Doran, c. 1939