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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Pen and wash drawing of a cobbled street with bare trees, a boy carrying firewood, and a corner building with a street sign.

Gezicht op de ingang van het Kartuizerkerkhof aan de Kartuizerstraat

Gerrit Lamberts, 1817

Two circular watercolor vignettes of young women in period dress, one reading a letter, one holding a flower, on a pale sheet

Five Circular Representations of Young Women

Fortunato Duranti, 1810

Pen and brown wash drawing of a standing young woman in period dress holding knitting, with curled hair and a ruffled skirt.

Young Standing Girl with Knitting

Martinus Rørbye, 1828-1830

Watercolor of brick canal houses with stepped gables along a tree-lined quay, with bare trees and reflections in the water.

Gezicht op de Herengracht 220-218

Hobbe Smith, 1925

Sepia watercolor of a gabled brick house beside a canal, with a rowboat and a man standing on a wooden quay.

Gezicht op de sleepersgang bij de Uilenburgergracht

Johannes Hendrik Knoop, 1779

Watercolor of a neoclassical city gate at dusk with pedestrians, a cart, street lamps and a gabled building beside it.

Gezicht op het Haarlemmerplein

Anna Mortier Ramus, 1825

Grey wash drawing of classical figures with a three-headed dog and snake-haired women around a bearded god in a lunette.

Psyche Asks Proserpine to Put a Little of her Beauty in an Urn for Venus

Johann August Nahl The Younger, 1770

Pen drawing of a large tree beside a thatched cottage, with a path leading to a distant windmill under a grey sky.

Landschap met bomen, huizen en een windmolen

Jacob Esselens, 1636

Ink and wash drawing of a seated man in a dark jacket and orange trousers against a yellow hatched background.

Ekstase

Karl Wiener, 1923

Pencil drawing of Notre Dame Cathedral's towers and flying buttresses beside a conical turret, with rooftops below.

Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, 1820

Pencil and brown wash sketch of Horseshoe Falls on the Niagara River, with a stone tower at left and rocky ledges.

Horseshoe Falls, Niagara River, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Charcoal drawing of a young woman's face gazing forward against a dark, hatched background.

Self-Portrait

Ellen Thesleff, 1894

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate cross with radiating rays on a decorated stand with a lion figure, 1810.

Design for a Cross with Alternative Suggestions

Pietro Belli, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ and the Virgin above clouds and putti, with saints and a bishop gazing up below.

Christ and the Virgin with Patron Saints of Pistoia

Giacinto Gimignani, 1630

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman in a pink dress with raised arms against yellow radiating rays.

Ekstase

Karl Wiener, 1921

Pencil sketch of a layered desert canyon with cliffs receding toward distant hills under a pale sky.

Desert Canyon, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink drawing of Noah kneeling at an altar with a burning ram, smoke rising, and attendants beside an ornate vase.

Sacrifice of Noah

Pietro Novelli, 1590

Oval pastel portrait of an elderly woman in a lace bonnet, mauve silk dress and cream bow, against a grey background.

An Elderly Lady in a Mauve Silk Dress

Claude Bornet, 1767

Abstract crayon drawing of swirling flame-like yellow, orange and blue forms with red diagonal streaks on a cream mount.

Ekstatse

Karl Wiener, 1928

Pen and ink drawing of a rampant heraldic lion holding a sword inside a laurel wreath with trailing ribbons.

Vänrikin markkinamuisto -runon loppuvinjetti

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornate scrolled gilt bronze design with acanthus leaves and a crown on a pedestal.

Design for a Gilt Bronze Ornament

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1700

Brown wash drawing of costumed figures visiting a barred window beside brick steps, with a seated man and a dog in front.

The Prison Visit

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1797

Pencil drawing of a woman in headscarf and long skirt raising a clenched fist, with a small basket beside her.

Elend, oh Elend!

Karl Wiener, 1942

Two octagonal brown ink wash drawings of mythological scenes: Juno nursing Hercules, and Hebe with Hercules aided by Minerva.

Juno Suckling Hercules, Hebe Marries Hercules with Help of Minerva, Designed for Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gaddi,…

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown ink design sheet with octagonal putti medallions, scrolled ornament, and a scene of Coriolanus at the walls of

Design for Various Decorations including "Coriolanus at the Walls of Rome"

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown wash drawing of masked Punchinello figures with torches, a woman and a dog, with a gondola and domed church on a Veneti

Punchinello's Farewell to Venice

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1798

A Bull on a Ledge

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1770

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo cartouche with scrollwork, cherub heads, and a dove within radiating rays.

Design for a Holy Water Stoup

Thomas Lainé, 1730

Pencil handwritten supply list on cream paper itemizing tools, kitchenware, food, and camping gear.

Supply List, Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil and watercolor botanical study of hanging white locust blossoms, green leaves, and a flowering twig on cream paper.

Locust Blossoms

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a brick house with a gabled facade, blue door, picket fence and bare tree.

Gezicht op een huis aan de Schagerlaan

Tinus de Jongh, 1919

Watercolor drawing of a tiered stone obelisk memorial with a star on top, set among trees with small figures nearby.

Ehdotus J. L. Runebergin hautamuistomerkiksi Porvooseen

Frans Anatolius Sjöström, 1877