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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Pencil sketch of hilly terrain with trees and handwritten color notes, labeled April.

Mountain Pass, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a rounded coastal rock headland with an arched opening at its base, drawn on tan paper.

Cuckhold Head from Signal Hill, St. John's, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Tan-toned mural design sketch showing a central female figure with shield and staff, flanked by caryatid figures under a clou

Mural Design

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of nude female figures in a landscape, one reaching out at left, with trees and clouds faintly drawn.

Diana and Callisto

Possibly School of Nicolas Poussin, n.d.

Oil study of three cows by a wooden barn and dark trees, with smoke from smouldering turf rising in the foreground.

Cows in Turf Smoke, study

Eero Järnefelt, 1887

Grey wash drawing of a cemetery stage design with a tall memorial column, urns on pedestals, steps, and small figures.

Design for a Stage: A Cemetery

Pasquale Canna, 1800

Pale floral border design of hydrangea clusters and leaves on a brown ground, an unfinished textile design from 1800.

Design for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf," Unfinished

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of a robed standing figure in a circular medallion framed by classical trophies and ornament.

Design for Overmirror Decoration for the Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling veiled woman in draped robes, with a study of folded cloth below on toned paper.

Studies of the Virgin Mary and a Standing Man

Gugliemo Cortese, 1640

Grey ink and wash drawing of a classical hall with fluted columns, coffered ceiling, relief friezes and draped curtain.

Stage Design, Interior of Hall in Antique Style

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1800

Charcoal drawing of a young child with voluminous curly hair turned to the side, shaded softly against a pale tan sheet.

Portrait of a Child

Samuel Worcester Rowse, 1820

Pen and brown ink anatomical study of muscular arms and clenched fists with hatched shading on paper.

A Sheet of Anatomical Studies

Peter Paul Rubens, 1600/10

Illuminated initial showing a kneeling man offering a golden cup to a crowned king and queen before a red canopy.

Nehemiah before King Artaxerxes, initial ‘C’ from a Bible

Masters of Zweder van Culemborg, about 1430

Pencil and white chalk sketch of maple trees with branches and foliage on tan paper, with handwritten note at lower left.

Maple Top on Road to Jackson, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Watercolor of an Athens street with a domed mosque, camels, a mounted rider and robed figures in sunlight.

Street in Athens. With Hadji Hazekis' palace and the Tzistarakis Mosque

Carl Wilhelm Heideck, 1835

Pen and brown wash drawing of the dead Christ mourned by the Virgin Mary, with angels and cherubs above.

Lamentation over Christ

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, 1810

Illuminated manuscript page with a robed saint holding a crozier inside a large letter O, surrounded by colorful foliate bord

Saint Benedict, initial ‘O’, with border fragments from a Missal

Attributed to Jakob Elsner and workshop, 1491

Watercolor study of an apple tree with branches of green leaves and small apples on a pale background.

Apple Tree (Study for a Decorative Design)

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Painted miniature of a bishop beside white deer, with a hunting party on horseback and hounds in a green landscape.

Miracle of the Deer of Saint Bassiano, from a Choir Book

Master B. F., 1500/10

Pen and brown wash drawing of a draped monument with putti, a helmeted figure, and shields, by Giuseppe Barberi.

Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a flat-topped island above two studies of floating icebergs on tan paper, with handwritten location note.

Island off Henley Harbour with Two Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Ink and wash drawing of a man in a straw hat reading on a bench under large trees, by Honoré Daumier.

A Man Reading in a Garden (recto); Preliminary sketch for a Man Reading in a Garden (verso)

Honoré Daumier, ca. 1865

Zijaanzicht van een vrouw met een muts en gesloten ogen

Jean Bernard, 1816

Pencil sketch of a woman in a bonnet leaning over a table, working on a shoe, with a handwritten Dutch caption.

Vrouw met muts met een kap plakt een schoen

Jean Bernard, 1775

Buste van een vrouw met muts

Jean Bernard, 1775

Watercolor of two white storks on a pale path before rocky hills and reddish shrubs under a stormy sky.

Herons in Landscape

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75

Neeltje met hoge muts en kraag op 40-jarige leeftijd

Jean Bernard, 1832

Watercolor of a canal with a wooden bridge, large trees, houses, a street lamp and a wheel structure beside the water.

Gezicht op een overtoom

Hobbe Smith, 1872

Pencil sketch of a sleeping woman wearing a tall cap with a bow and a lace collar, shown from the bust up.

Slapende vrouw met hoge muts

Jean Bernard, 1775

Pen and watercolor sketch of Phaeton and Apollo on a chariot amid clouds and sun rays, with a winged cherub below.

Phaeton Bidding Apollo Farewell

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor of a canal quay with shop fronts, Heineken and Vlaams Eethuis signs, mooring posts and a walking figure.

Gezicht op de Sloterkade

Hobbe Smith, 1925

Watercolor of a brown vulture with a pale neck perched on a grey rock against a mottled blue sky.

Vulture

Antoine-Louis Barye, 1810-75