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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Brown ink plan of a sepulchral building with arched niches and column rows over a pencil grid, by Giuseppe Barberi, 1780.

Plan of Sepulchral Building

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate ewer with a bird on its spout, putti reliefs, fruit garlands and vine foliage.

Design for a panel decoration showing a ewer, for a plate in the "Recueil d' Ornements"

Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1780

Graphite sketch of dancing women in flowing draperies, with studies arranged in a chain across the top and groups below.

Study for a dancing women, “Moods to Music,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Pencil sketch of a seabird, a rowboat with a seated figure, rocky cliffs and a distant shoreline over water.

Sketches from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil drawing on grey paper of folded drapery around a bowed figure, with white chalk highlights on the cloth folds.

Drapery Study for "A Magdalen"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil and wash sketch of a seated figure in a wide-brimmed hat on a wooden wagon bench under a curved canvas cover.

Back of an Army Wagon

Winslow Homer, 1860

Watercolor design sheet of two andirons with sphinx heads, a Medusa mask, winged figures and an urn on a green panel.

Design for two andirons

Tournai Lefebvre Manufactory, 1800

Colored architectural drawing of a symmetrical monument with winged Liberty figure atop a central tower, flanked by seated al

Design for a Monument Commemorating Systematization of Weights and Measures in France

Jean-Jacques Lequeu, 1800

Pencil sketch of a mountain range and hills with handwritten color notes on cream paper.

Mountains near Toluca, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketches on paper of two army mules in harness, a wagon with wheels, and a wheel with loose shapes.

Four Small Sketches of Army Mules and Wagon

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woman in white cap and red bodice reading by leaded windows in a dim interior with a bed and red slippers on the floor.

A Woman Reading, after Pieter Janssens Elinga

François Bonvin, 1846-47

Pencil and chalk sketch of a low landscape under rain-streaked clouds, with handwritten notes along the bottom edge.

Landscape with Rain

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of Niagara Falls with cliffs, a treeline, and faint arcs of a double rainbow above the water.

Double Rainbow over Niagara Falls, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a veiled woman offering a bowl to a seated bearded man and a boy in classical dress.

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged figure holding scales of Libra among swirling clouds, in a semicircular lunette format

Libra, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged figure riding a leaping goat-like creature inside a lunette-shaped frame.

Capricorn, Lunette for Ceiling of the Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Hazy brown and green mountain slopes with trees in the foreground under a pale, cloudy sky, painted in oil on paper.

Mountains of Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of classical ruins with columns, urns, and small figures bathing beneath trees.

Architectural Fantasy with Figures Bathing

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Pencil study sheet with a standing nude male figure, two hand studies, and a pair of legs on cream paper.

Käteen haavoittunut poika ; Jalka- ja käsitutkielmia, luonnoksia Tampereen tuomiokirkon (Johanneksen kirkko) lehterik…

Pen and wash drawing of Piazza del Popolo in Rome with an obelisk, twin domed churches, and pedestrians in the foreground.

Piazza del Popolo, Rome

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, 1740

Pencil drawing of figures on a stony shore, with sailing boats and a hazy city skyline across the water.

Gezicht op het IJ en de Westerdoksdijk

Everhardus Koster, 1827

Pencil and wash sketch of a harbor with a small building, moored rowboats, sailing masts and a hazy city skyline.

Gezicht op het Bothuisje

Everhardus Koster, 1852

Pen and grey wash drawing of moored sailing ships, a warehouse and a waterfront building in a harbor under an overcast sky.

Gezicht op de Westerdoksdijk

A. Goedkoop, 1850

Oude man met baard en fez

Jean Bernard, 1775

Brown ink drawing of a classical tomb with two draped figures, a lion, laurel wreath, cherubs and flaming urns.

Sepulchral Monument for Writer Vecei

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pencil sketch of a young girl with her hair in a bun, seated on a step in a long dress, looking toward the viewer.

Girl Seated on a Step

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pen and wash drawing of an overdoor design with a star medallion in a garland wreath above an arched pediment on pilasters.

Project for an Overdoor

Carlo Marchionni

Loose oil sketch of the Acropolis ruins on a hill under a hazy sun, with green slopes and a small white building in the foreg

View of the Acropolis, Athens

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Tyttö ja kukka, Taidetta kouluihin logo

Venny Soldan-Brofeldt

Grey wash drawing of an old woman bent under two grotesque figures riding on her back, labeled 'Pesadilla'.

'Nightmare'; an old woman carrying figures on her back; page 20 from the Witches and Old Women Album (D)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1819-23

Pencil sketches of marching infantry soldiers and two standing figures in hats, with practice signatures written along the to

Sketches of Single Infantry Figures and Practice Signatures

Winslow Homer, 1860

Sotilaan pää, päähine 1600-luvulta, harjoitelma Helsingin yliopiston juhlasalin freskomaalausta varten

Albert Edelfelt