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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of a baptismal font with lion-mask handles, a garland swag, and angels supporting a radiant finial

Design for a Baptismal Font

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Pencil sketch of clouds over a distant mountain ridge with handwritten color notes and a signature dated 1880.

Mountains and Clouds in Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Dark drawing of a narrow city street with a lone man in a hat walking with a cane between tall shadowed buildings.

Enge Gasse

Karl Wiener, 1926

Despair, study for the "By the River of Tuonela", Jusélius Mausoleum

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1903

Pale watercolor of a flat plain with a blue mountain range under a hazy sky, with a small pond at lower left.

American Plains with Mountain Range in the Distance

Pencil sketch of a lake beneath mountains with clouds, inscribed Togue Lake, Sept. 1870, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Mount Katahdin across Togue Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Watercolor of a Viennese corner building with ochre facade and dormer roof, with pedestrians and a horse cart on a cobbled st

"Engelhaus" / Neustiftgasse 40

Franz Xaver Schleich, 1909

Pen and wash drawing of a coffered niche conch topped by a winged figure and a dolphin, with rosette ornament.

Design for the Decoration of the Conch of a Niche

Carlo Marchionni, 1740

Pencil sketch of a calm pond reflecting trees and a distant mountain, with a foreground bank and fallen branches.

Kearsarge from Mill Pond, at Conway Corner

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil sketch of a balding man with a mustache, head turned left, on aged paper with a museum stamp.

Man

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pen and brown ink sketches of winged figures, putti and scrolled decorative frames on a cream sheet of paper.

Sketches for a tablet

Carlo Marchionni, 1740

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat with arms folded, shaded with loose diagonal hatching on tan paper.

Man

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Watercolor study of flower boughs with purple and blue blossoms and green foliage in flowing garland sprays.

Study of Flower Boughs for Woven Textile

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1770

Pencil sketch of two figures embracing against a background of loose hatched lines, on cream paper.

"Entführung", aus: "Liebeszyklus"

Karl Wiener, 1930

Brown wash drawing of a sepulchral monument with two putti, a lyre in a wreath, an inscription, and flanking urns.

Sepulchral Monument for the Poet Colte, of Rome

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rococo oval frame with a small scene of figures around an easel below.

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730

Pen and ink drawing of a woman and a man standing in a room with a chaise longue and side table.

Entkleidung

Karl Wiener, 1926

Pencil sketch of a Venice waterfront with a gondola, masts, a bell tower, a domed church and strolling figures.

View of Venice, Italy

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Grey wash drawing of gods and cherubs seated on clouds, with a bearded deity holding an orb at the center.

Study for Painting, Mount Olympus

Vito D'Anna, 1750

Pencil sketch of a man in a rowboat on a lake, with trees on the left and mountains rising behind the shore.

Alpine Landscape from Chiemsee

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, 1876

Pen and ink drawing of a papal coat of arms with tiara, crossed keys, floral garland, and handwritten Italian notes.

Frame for papal inscription

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Sepia drawing of an older man in a doorway talking with a young girl beside a vine-covered wall and bench.

Lucy en haar vader in gesprek in de deurpost van het huis

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1854

Oil sketch of a dark sea under a pale sky with a small rocky outcrop at right and a handwritten weather note below.

Maine Coast, Mt. Desert Island

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sepia wash drawing of two women seated indoors, one pointing while holding an open book, with handwritten caption below.

Miss Prigott onderwerpt Lucy aan medische vragen

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1854

Brown wash drawing of two women in an interior, one in a striped dress speaking, the other in an apron listening.

Lucy en Hatty is gesprek

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1854

Sepia drawing of a man holding a young woman by the arms in a doorway, with handwritten notes on the page.

Lucy en haar vader

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1854

Brown wash drawing of three girls in an interior, one holding a tray, with handwritten notes in Dutch and English around it.

Maggie en Esther maken kennis met Flora Franklin

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1874

Pen and brown wash drawing of six tomb monuments in niches with columns, a central allegorical figure holding a cross.

Six tombs

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Brown wash drawing of a man bending toward a crouching girl by a doorway, with a ladder and street lantern nearby.

Trueman Flint stuit op de huilende Gerty, rouwend om haar kitten

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1854

Brown wash drawing of two girls in bonnets and dresses seated on a stair beneath a gothic arched window.

Gerty en Emily in de kerk

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1854

Pencil sketch of a whitewashed Italian farmhouse with a tiled roof, chimney, and exterior staircase with railing.

Italian Farmhouse

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown watercolor of two girls facing each other in a room, one seated beside a table with food, the other standing.

Maggie brengt Crinny eten

Joseph Ludovic Scheidel, 1874