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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of Apollo driving a horse-drawn chariot through clouds, with a winged figure leading the way.

Apollo in Chariot with Aurora and the Hours

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a nude standing male figure with bowed head and one hand raised, on pale paper.

Haavoittunut köynnöksenkantaja, luonnos Tampereen tuomiokirkon (Johanneksen kirkko) lehterikaiteen maalauksiin

Watercolor drawing of a red scowling demonic face above a serpentine trail descending to a city skyline under blue sky.

"Erdgeist", Graz

Karl Wiener, 1924

Grey wash drawing of a ceremonial farewell by a river, with soldiers, flags, a windmill and sailing boats.

Afscheid van Willem V van Oranje-Nassau en Wilhelmina van Pruisen aan de Amstel, 1768

Simon Fokke, 1768

Ink sketch of a standing woman in a long dress on a cream sheet, with faint reversed printed text below.

Woman

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Drawing of five men in 18th-century dress seated and standing around a table with books, an inkwell and a quill.

Regentenstuk, 1789

Jan Bulthuis, 1789

Pencil drawing of a tree-lined village road with low houses, a fence and a cart, receding toward a distant farmhouse.

Gezicht op de Schagerlaan

Tinus de Jongh, 1919

Oil sketch of a rounded mountain above dark forest and a grey lake, under a warm cloudy sky.

Pamola Peak and Mt. Katahdin from a Basin Pond, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Ink and wash sketch of two laughing bearded men, one raising a fur hat, on tan paper, signed by Ilja Repin.

Sketch for the painting Zaporozhian Cossacks Writing a Mocking Letter to the Turkish Sultan

Ilya Repin, 1887

Yellow watercolor design of a mantel clock with a rose top, a cherub holding a torch, and a flaming column.

Design for Clock

Tournai Lefebvre Manufactory, 1800

Pencil sketch of gnarled bare trees and boulders on a rocky shore under a pale sky.

Study, Trees, Santa Barbara, California

Samuel Colman, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of a street with columned palazzo facades, arched doorways, balconies and a tree.

Theatre Design: Streetscape

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a seated nude woman with one arm raised to her head and the other extended toward a chair.

Seated Female Nude

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Oil sketch of a rocky desert valley with steep cliffs, a carved rock facade, and small figures on the valley floor.

El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Colored elevation drawing of a marble altar with gilded urns, fluted columns and a painted panel, for Santa Maria Maggiore.

Altar Mensa for the Capella Paolina (Borghese Chapel), Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy

Mario Asprucci The Younger, 1750

T.K.Sallinen, karikatyyri

Ilmari Aalto, 1924

Study, North Conway, New Hampshire

Study, North Conway, New Hampshire

David Johnson, 1851

Pen and ink sheet of architectural interior elevations, decorative panels, a niche, and small figure sketches.

Interior elevation of a building

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design of two andirons with a green lion on a yellow pedestal and a lattice base with rosettes.

Two designs for andirons

Tournai Lefebvre Manufactory, 1800

Brown ink and wash design of architectural frieze with acanthus leaves, acorns, and scrolled ornament in horizontal bands.

Design for ceiling decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Anatomical Sketches of Heads and Facial Expressions

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Sheet of seven stylized flower sprays and one naturalistic blossom drawn in grey and red chalk on cream paper.

Sprays of Seven ideal Flowers and of one quasi naturalistic flower

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Pencil study of two draped caryatid figures with laurel wreaths supporting Ionic capitals, with scale notes in the margins.

Melpomene, tragedian muusa

Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, 1885

Pencil sketch of a right hand on cream paper with handwritten colour notes in the upper left corner.

Sketch of Right Hand for Portrait of Mrs. Kennedy

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Pencil sketch of a Paris quay with barges on the Seine, a stone bridge, and two men reading at the railing.

Gezicht op de Quai des Grands-Augustins te Parijs

Oswald Heidbrinck, 1898

Pale watercolor elevation of a tall fluted column topped by a winged Victory, with seated statues and flanking winged figures

Project: The elevation of a Victory monument

Giuseppe Valadier, 1820

Lithographic sheet with central portrait of Franz Joseph I surrounded by collaged 1848 Austrian banknotes and military vignet

"ERINNERUNG / 1848 / AN DAS EREIGNISSVOLLE / in dem / Deutschen Reiche" (Quodlibet zur Revolution von 1848: Im Zentru…

W. Süssmuth, 1848

Pencil sketch of a forested gorge with a waterfall between rocky cliffs, with handwritten notes on light and rock colour.

Approaching Tequendama Falls, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch sheet with a rock outcrop, a leafy tree, and studies of grazing sheep on pale paper.

Mixed Sketches, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pen and brown wash drawing of a nude putto in a diagonal pose, with faint pencil lines and handwritten notes on the sheet.

Putto

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Pencil drawing of two draped muses, one holding a comedy mask and one reading an open book, labeled Thalia and Calliope.

Thalia, Muse of Comedy and Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and wash sketch of Paris bookstalls on a quay, with bare trees and a standing figure in a hat.

Boekenstallen op een kade in Parijs

Rolf von Hoerschelmann, 1911