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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Oil sketch of Salzburg with a hilltop fortress, church spires, fields, and distant mountains under a hazy sky.

View of Salzburg, Austria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of a town mansion facade with Ionic columns, arched doorway, and statues along the upper level.

Left Half of Elevation of a Town Mansion

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing in two scenes: a seated queen receives two warriors above, and figures with cupids in a rocky land

Aeneas and Achates before Dido; the Love of Aeneas and Dido

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketches of table legs, a scrolled bracket, and a quatrefoil ornament with handwritten notes on cream paper.

Table Sketches, Florence, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor design drawing of an ovoidal tureen with draped female supports, scroll handles, a shield crest, and a figural fin

Design for an Ovoidal Tureen

Pietro Belli, 1800

Pen and wash design drawing of a Baroque altar with Corinthian columns, angels, putti and a monogrammed cartouche.

Design for an altar of the Virgin

Carlo Marchionni, 1770

Brown ink drawing of a domed chapel seen through a colonnade, with seated figures, sculpture and a coffered ceiling.

Sepulchral Chapel seen through a Colonnade

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor of sheep grazing on rolling golden downland under a stormy sky, with a shepherd and a lone tree.

A View on the South Downs

Henry George Hine, 1871

Pencil study of a right hand resting on the edge of a book, with a striped sleeve and faint sketch lines below.

Study of Right Hand on a Book

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of a castle tower on a rocky hill above a river, with dense hatched foliage and sky.

Imaginary Landscape with Castle

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pen and brown ink drawing of an architectural monument with a seated reading figure in an oval niche and a putto.

Design for a monument

Corrado Giaquinto, 1740

Pen and wash design drawing of a lidded silver coffee urn with a lion head ring handle, spigot, and fluted legs.

Design for a Silver Coffee Urn

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Brown ink drawing of a wooded landscape with large trees, a pond, a seated figure, and distant hills.

Wooded Landscape with a Pond

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 1650

Pen and wash drawing of an altar elevation with Corinthian columns, a painted angel scene, and draped fabric with a plan belo

Design for an Altar: Elevation, with Trompe l'Oeil Plan Below

Carlo Marchionni, 1770

Pencil sketch of a jagged iceberg with layered faces and a low tapering section extending to the right on cream paper.

Iceberg near Belle Isle, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and watercolor sketch of cows grazing and resting in a pasture beside trees, in soft brown and gray tones.

Cows in a Pasture

Winslow Homer, 1850

Loose oil sketch of a low farmhouse behind an open field, in muted pink and mauve tones with unpainted canvas edges.

Landscape, Sketch

Magnus Enckell, 1891

Pencil sketch of a girl in a dress and striped stockings swinging from a tree branch, by Winslow Homer.

Girl on a Swing

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil sketch of rugged mountains under clouds, with handwritten notes reading Silver grey and golden brown.

Mountains in Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a man's head tilted to one side, with loose hair and soft shading on a cream sheet.

Portrait of the Artist (?)

Charles Bargue, 1850-83

Pen and brown wash drawing of ornate candlesticks with tapered candles, putti, a sphinx figure, and obelisk-shaped bases.

Candlesticks

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Ink and wash architectural drawing of a domed classical building with colonnade above a columned monument with obelisk spire.

Elevations of a Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Study, Half-Length Figure of a Naked Man

Pencil sketch of an ornamental stone relief with scrolls and leaves above a ledge, with two round fragments below.

Tomb Decorations in the Museum of Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Grey wash drawing of a theatrical Egyptian temple courtyard with staircases, columns, a winged disk, and braziers.

Stage Design, Courtyard of an Egyptian Temple

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, 1800

Pencil sketch of a man and woman standing close in an embrace, with a small head study at upper right.

Man and woman

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Pencil sketch of mountains and a yellow plain with handwritten colour notes and small clouds above.

Mountains in Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Watercolor elevation of a large mansion with steep slate roofs, dormers, arched windows and a balcony, set on a lawn.

Elevation of Mansion

Whitney Warren Jr, 1900

Sepia ink and wash elevation of a classical palace facade with arched doorways, columns, and statues along the roofline.

Elevation of a Palace

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of three men coaling, one thrusting a pole, one standing, one bending with a load, plus a head study.

Coaling Up

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Dense tropical vines with heart-shaped leaves and small flowers climb against a dark brown background.

Philodendron Vines, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and ink drawing of a young bull grazing with head lowered, shown in side view on pale paper.

Young Bull

Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496, erroneously inscribed in another hand 1508