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Drawings & Sketches

79,489 works

Pencil and wash drawing of a foreshore with a windmill, moored boats, workers and sailing vessels under a cloudy sky.

Foreshore Scene with Windmill

Jan van Goyen, 1653

Brown ink and wash drawing of a tall obelisk on a pedestal with three standing figures and reclining figures around a mask me

Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Sepia wash drawing of a desert landscape with rock formations and a lone figure with a staff walking across sand.

In the Desert, Arizona

Thomas Moran, 1870

Pen and grey wash sketch of two men, one in a dark cloak in the foreground glancing sideways, a lighter figure behind him.

L'Amateur

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Pen and watercolor sketch of a rolling landscape with woods, pink and green fields, distant hills, and a faint building outli

View at the Edge of Winding [Vinding] Forest in Bryrupegnen

Dankvart Dreyer, 1841

Ink and wash drawing of a monumental Romanesque hall with arcaded galleries, columns, staircases and a vaulted ceiling.

Stage Design, Romanesque Hall

Antonio Liverani, 1800

Two Male Heads

Honoré Daumier, 19th century

Painted textile border design of white and blue lilac blossoms and green leaves on a rust-brown background.

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

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Graphite sketch on grey-blue paper of a seated woman in drapery, hands pressed to her face.

Study for Vieille Italienne (recto); Drapery Study (verso)

Edgar Degas, 1856

Brown ink and wash drawing of a Gothic interior stage design with pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and draped curtains.

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Grey-blue wash drawing of Roman rooftops and a bell tower with a draped statue on a pedestal in the foreground.

SS. Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Villa Mattei, Rome

Jean Achille Benouville

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and ridges receding into the distance, with handwritten notes above describing the landscape.

Landscape near San Miguel de Chimbo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown wash drawing of a tree-lined road with a seated figure, leading toward a town with arches and a domed church.

View of Ariccia

Jean Achille Benouville, 1853

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornamental design with three oval frames, swagged drapery, and cherubs around a central pede

Decoration for portrait of Pope Pius VI and royal couple

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketch of clouds and distant hills with trees and a small building on tan paper.

Cloud Sketch, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Watercolor design of floral embroidery sprigs and garlands framed in a waistcoat outline, with handwritten inscription at top

Design for the Embroidered Decoration of a Man's Waistcoatr, Design 1876 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate church ciborium with a cross finial, cherub heads, and seated putti on the base.

Design for a Ciborium

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a garden gate in a low wall, with trees and a pale house with a red-tiled roof behind.

Entrance to a Garden

Paul Cézanne, 1878-80

Two ink and wash drawings of an alcove wall with draped curtains, bookshelves, urns and busts in classical style.

Designs for Bedroom Alcove Wall Elevations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Drawing of a draped female figure with clasped hands gazing upward, in graphite and white chalk on tan paper with grid lines.

Allegorical Figure of the City of Piacenza, for a Pendentive in the Chapel of Saint-Roch, Church of Saint-Sulpice, Pa…

Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol, 1821

Monochrome drawing of a sailboat on a marsh with haystacks, a flock of birds overhead, and distant spires.

Sailboat and Haystacks on Newbury Marsh

American School, n.d.

Graphite sketch of a dancing woman with head tilted back, one arm raised, and flowing drapery, on tan card.

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

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Watercolor design for embroidery showing shrubs, pink flowers and grass within a violet waistcoat outline.

Design for Embroidered Waistcoat

Mademoiselle Favel, 1780

Study for “Madame Théodore Gobillard” (Yves Morisot)

Edgar Degas, 1869

Pen and watercolor drawing of a classical woman holding a garland carried by two winged putti, over a grid.

Wall painting

Mauro Gandolfi, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of two arched doorways with ornamented columns and entablatures.

Door frames giving impression of Renaissance works in ruins

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Graphite drawing of Pope Pius IX blessing from a balcony, with attendants holding an umbrella and cross and papal arms below.

Pope Pius IX Imparting the Blessing Urbi et Orbi

François-Léon Benouville, 1847

Pen and ink sketches of rococo frames, scrolls and an escutcheon on a stained, aged sheet of paper.

Sketches for Frames and Escutcheons

Carlo Marchionni, 1750

Loose sketch of sunlit mountain peak above a shadowed valley and dark evergreen trees under a pale sky.

Mountains near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of tall conifers along a wooded lakeshore with low hills and an empty sky behind them.

Wooded Lakeshore

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor of a crowned queen kneeling in blue robes, hand on the shoulder of a small boy standing beside her.

A Queen Kneeling with Her Hand on Her Little Son's Shoulder

Dankvart Dreyer, 1840-1849

Pencil sketch on grey-blue paper of a palm tree and a tree trunk with branches, with handwritten labels.

Botanical Sketches from the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850