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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Soldier with Sword and Pipe

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil design drawing of a domed well hall with arched colonnades and a spire, beside tall cypress trees.

Entwurf einer Brunnenhalle / für Gleichenberg

Friedrich Schachner, 1887

Charcoal sketch of fishermen hauling a wooden dory up a wet beach, with sailboats on the sea behind.

Fishermen Beaching a Dory, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of a busy country fair with tents, market stalls, crowds of people, and a dog in the foreground.

Country Fair

Jan van Goyen, 1653

Pencil and wash perspective drawing of a large Vienna university library building with rows of windows and pedestrians.

Entwurf für den Neubau einer Universitätsbibliothek in Wien

Otto Wagner, 1910

Brown wash drawing of figures in a classical interior, a seated man at a table with women standing around him.

Tobias-aihe

Alexander Lauréus, 1820

Gedney Bunce

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pen and watercolour design for an oblong ceiling with circular medallions, arcs and scrolling ornament in pink and ochre.

Design for an Oblong Ceiling

George Richardson, 1770

Brown ink and wash landscape of two men walking a forest path beside a stream, with a castle on a distant hill.

Landscape with Two Men Walking

Tobias Verhaecht, 1580/1631

Pencil sketch of oxen resting near a tree and a cart with barrels, with farm buildings and a road in the background.

A Village Square

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of two schooners on choppy ocean waves, with a small arrow notation in the upper right corner.

Schooners and Ocean Waves, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Botanical drawing of pink and white dog's tooth violet, mallow with purple flowers, and several butterflies on a page.

Roze en witte Hondstand (Erythronium dens-canis), groot kaasjeskruid (Malva sylvestris) en vlinder

Octavius M. de J., 1680

Red chalk study of a muscular nude man with raised arm, beside graphite sketches of figures in an architectural setting.

Studies for the Flagellation of Christ

Guiseppe Cesari, 1640

Pen and grey wash drawing of a heeling warship with tall masts and rigging, with a faint coastal town at right.

Oorlogsschip in storm

Bonaventura Peeters, 1624

Pen and brown wash drawing of galleons sailing past a harbor town with towers, rowing boats in the foreground.

Het uitzeilen van de Spaanse vloot van Havanna in 1662

Bonaventura Peeters, 1662

Pencil sketch of three ship masts, one flagged, above a shoreline with figures, with handwritten notes on the page.

Masts of Ship with United States Flag

Winslow Homer, 1890

Watercolor of mountains and cultivated hillsides with a rocky cliff, a tree, and seated figures in the foreground.

Gezicht vanaf uitzichtpunt Kalabokka in het Matale district te Sri Lanka

Constance Gordon-Cumming, 1874

Pencil cartoon of an arched stained glass design on peach paper, with a grid and faint sketched figures and horse.

Kuolema, heikosti erottuva ratsastaja. Lasimaalausluonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkoa varten

Pencil sketch of a seated demon king and warriors with tridents threatening a kneeling devotee.

Hiranyakashipu commands his demon warriors to threaten and injure Prahlada. Preparatory drawing from the ‘Small Bhaga…

Manaku, ca. 1740-50

Pencil sketch of a small standing child seen from behind beside a larger adult figure with bent head and legs.

Figures

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of palm trees and fan-shaped plants on grey paper with handwritten notes.

Palm Tree Crowns, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and gouache drawing of two uniformed soldiers, one with hands on hips and one saluting, on tan paper.

Von Konow ja hänen korpraalinsa

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Pen sketch of Krishna grasping a giant crane demon's beak as herders and cattle watch in a hilly landscape.

Krishna killing the crane demon Bakasura. Preparatory drawing for Bhagavata Purana series

family of Manaku, ca. 1780-90

Pencil sketch of Lake Winnipesaukee framed by hills and mountains, with shrubs and trees in the foreground.

Lake Winnipesaukee from Wolfeboro Neck, Looking West

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Watercolor design of a waistcoat pocket and embroidered border with yellow scallops and painted flower bouquets.

Design for the Embroidered Border and Pocket of a Waistcoat

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Ink floor plan by Otto Wagner showing rows of book storage cells for a proposed Vienna university library, 1910.

"Entwurf für den Neubau einer Universitätsbibliothek in Wien" - " Grundriss der Geschosse des Büchermagazins"

Otto Wagner, 1910

Architectural elevation drawing of a neoclassical theater facade with four columns, statues in niches, and a slate roof.

Elevation of a Theater, Venice

Cesare Recanatini, 1850

Pen and grey wash design of an empty oval frame with drapery, with a seated putto holding a staff beside a crown.

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of William Russell, First Duke of Bedford

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730

Architectural drawing of a multi-storey residential facade with arched windows, beside a sectional view and floor pattern det

Entwurf zu einer Wohnhaus Facade für Reichenberg

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1851

Brown ink and wash elevation of a domed church with twin towers flanked by arcaded buildings under a cloudy sky.

Elevation of a Church Flanked by Two Houses

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Loose oil sketch of icebergs in dark water under a pink sunset sky, with a brown rocky coastline on the horizon.

Icebergs off Cape St. John, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Ink drawing of a flowering plant with ivy leaves and roots in front of a radiating sunburst.

Sisällysluettelon 1. sivun alavinjetti, originaalipiirustus Vänrikki Stoolin tarinain kuvitukseen

Albert Edelfelt, 1897