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Drawings & Sketches

79,486 works

Sheet of pencil and white-heightened sketches showing sailing boats, schooners and sails on a tan ground.

Sketches of Sailing Boats

Winslow Homer, 1880

Drawing of a naval battle with sailing ships, rowing boats, smoke, and a fortress, with flags shown along the top.

Zeeslag voor Gibraltar, 25 april 1607

Pieter van Looy, 1880

Pencil study of a woman carrying a bucket beside a man in a cape seen from behind, on cream paper.

Studieblad met een vrouw die een emmer draagt en een man in een cape

Gérard ter Borch, 1625

Textile design drawing with white and blue flowers, leaves and scallop shells on a brown ground, 1800.

Design for a Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Brown wash drawing of a partly naked woman seated on cloth in a dark forest, head bowed, light through trees.

A partly naked woman seated by a stream; page 32 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Studieblad van een staande urinerende man, van achteren en van opzij

Gérard ter Borch, 1627

Pencil sketch of a flat landscape with trees, a winding path, and a small pitched-roof building on the horizon.

Landschap met een paard en wagen

Gérard ter Borch, 1645

Pencil drawing of a man with curly hair, mustache and goatee, head turned right, on an octagonal gray sheet.

Hoofd van een heer, naar rechts

Gérard ter Borch, 1645

Pencil portrait sketch of a bearded man with long hair turned to the left, on an octagonal grey paper.

Portetbuste van een (Spaanse?) heer, naar links

Gérard ter Borch, 1645

Pen-and-ink drawing of an older man in a high-collared coat, framed in an oval medallion surrounded by oak leaves and branche

Ukko Lode -runon loppuvinjetti

Albert Edelfelt, 1897

Grey wash drawing of a man lying on the ground kicking one leg high, with a Spanish caption below.

He Wakes Up Kicking; a man on the floor kicking his legs after waking from a nightmare; page 13 from the "Witches and…

Francisco Goya, ca. 1819-23

Pencil sketch of an army wagon with a mule in harness and a soldier beside it, on pale paper mounted in a grey album.

Army Wagon and Mule

Winslow Homer, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of a coffered ceiling design with octagonal and circular panels showing classical sacrifice scenes.

Decorative Design for Ceiling

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown wash drawing of an old man delousing a boy in a dim interior, with three figures behind and a cat in the foreground.

An old man delousing a boy accompanied by three figures, a cat in the foreground; page 40 from the "Images of Spain"…

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Pen and brown wash drawing of two octagonal allegorical wall designs with seated female figures and winged putti.

Justice and Strength: Project for Two Octagonal Wall Paintings

Felice Giani, 1810

Oil sketch of an elderly bearded man in a red cap and blue-green tunic against a dark background.

Old Man Wearing a Red Cap, sketch for the painting Fairy Tale Princess

Torsten Wasastjerna, 1895

Brown wash drawing of figures in a church, a white-robed man before a statue in a niche while cloaked worshippers kneel nearb

Figures inside a church; page 41 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Pen and brown wash drawing of three scenes with draped classical figures, a sarcophagus and a reclining lion.

Sarcophagus and allegorical figures

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Hazy painted landscape of rocky outcrops and green shrubs on a slope, with pale water at the right edge under a grey sky.

Base of the American Falls, Niagara

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown wash drawing of a crowd of people gathered in a circle, with a bearded man and figures in cloaks in the foreground.

A crowd forming a circle; page 42 from the "Images of Spain" album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Brown wash drawing of a glowing female figure with clasped hands, surrounded by dark shadowy spirits under radiating light be

A radiant female figure beset by dark spirits; page 45 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Grey wash drawing of a domed architectural interior with Corinthian columns and a floor plan in the lower right corner.

Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum"

Andrea Pozzo, 1700

Pencil sketch of East River shoreline with trees, a distant obelisk, and a small boat, with handwritten notes on the left edg

East River from Deck of Steamboat

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Ink and wash drawing of workers hauling ropes beside a wooden construction scaffold, with a man in a hat standing at left.

Construction; page 46, from "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Watercolor design of a young rider on a dark horse beside a robed figure, with pale plant motifs on a rust-red background.

Two Young Men on Horseback. Design for a Room Decoration

Gudrun Traustedt, 1915-1924

Two Sailing Ships

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil drawing of a man in a cap aiming a rifle from a boat, with a dog lying at his feet and reeds at the right.

J.L. Runeberg sorsajahdissa

Johan Knutson, 1835

Brown wash sketch of three men digging on rocky ground, one raising a pickaxe overhead.

Three men digging; folio 51 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Pencil sketch of a stone fountain, walking figures in top hats, and a woman in a hat in the foreground.

Fountain

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Graphite sketch of boulders, wooded hills and a distant rocky mountain with handwritten notes in the margins.

In Front of Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Brown wash drawing of a man kneeling over a fallen figure with raised arm, smoke and ruins behind them.

A man stabbing another; folio 53 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

Francisco Goya, ca. 1812-20

Brown ink drawing of a long arcaded palace with a central dome and statues on its corners, shown in wash.

Design for a Royal Palace in the Style of Borromini

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790