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Drawings & Sketches

79,493 works

Pencil study of a female figure's head and torso with surrounding sketches of lily flowers and annotated botanical notes.

Study for female figure and flowers

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a dusty street with thatched-roof houses and streaky clouds in a tan sky.

Calle de Commerce, Barranquilla, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a bearded man seated in a high-backed chair at a table with several figures behind him.

Ivan the Terrible, study

Pencil and ink sketch of a crowded temple interior with columns, a draped canopy, and kneeling figures around an altar.

Congregation in a Temple

Fortunato Duranti, 1787-1863

Ink architectural drawing with a floor plan above and a classical pavilion front elevation with columns and busts below.

Design Projects, Pavilion Plan and Elevation

Carl J. Furst, c. 1860-1870

Illuminated page of an enthroned bearded patriarch holding a child, surrounded by robed figures, palms, and corner medallions

Paradise with Christ in the Lap of Abraham

Unknown artist, c. 1239

Pen and wash drawing of a forest slope with tall trees, rocks and a small stream in the foreground.

View from the Springhouse at Echo

William Russell Birch, 1808

Pencil sketch of a fountain jet beside colonnade columns and trees in St. Peter's Square, with handwritten color notes.

Bernini's Fountain in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Portrait and Interior Study

Pencil architectural drawing with two building elevations, a floor plan, and detail studies on aged paper.

Design Projects, Elevation Studies and Plan

Carl J. Furst, c. 1860-1870

Wash drawing of priests and bearers carrying a chest toward a columned temple while a crowned king kneels in a doorway.

King Solomon Beholds the Ark of the Covenant Being Brought to the Temple

Andrea Vicentino, 1604

Medieval illuminated page of the Nativity with angels above and six Dominican monks kneeling in arches below, on gold and blu

The Nativity with Six Dominican Monks

Master of Imola, 1265/1274

Watercolor of rushing rapids between rocky cliffs under a cloudy sky, with a small figure on a rock in the foreground.

Falls of the Potomac

William Russell Birch, 1800

Soft pencil sketch on tan paper of a young woman with a draped head covering and lowered eyes.

Madonna

Carroll Beckwith, 1900

Sheet with a red chalk study of a male torso above a pencil sketch of figures in a columned architectural interior.

Study for a group, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Loose ink sketch of a laughing rider leaning back on a horse, head turned upward, drawn in quick line strokes on cream paper.

Sancho Panza (Goliath Laughing)

Pen and ink sketch of two winged skeletons holding drapery above a funerary urn with a skull, a wall tomb design.

Sketches for a Wall Tomb with Skeletons

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1630-40

Pencil elevation drawing of a classical building with tiered colonnades, arched windows, and pediments on aged paper.

Design Projects, Building Elevation Study

Carl J. Furst, c. 1860-1870

Manuscript page with red staff lines, black square notation, gothic text, and a red and blue decorated initial letter.

Death of Saint Benedict

Fra Gregorio Mutii da Montalcino, 1390/1395

Studies of a Sower (Illustration for Thomson's _Seasons_)

Thomas Stothard, 1791

Pencil drawing of two decorative friezes with rams, candelabra, a shield and swords, and winged sphinxes, griffin and putti.

Two Friezes with Rams, Candelabra, Trophies and Putti

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a wooded island with pine trees in calm water, a sailboat at left, and handwritten notes above.

Wooded Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil sketch of two children, one raising a round object overhead with both arms, signed Ilja Repin.

Women with Tambourines

Grey wash drawing of a man and two children at a doorway looking up at three winged figures flying over a hut.

Peter and His Children Visited by Three Flying Figures

Thomas Stothard, 1783

Pen and brown ink sketch of figures in hats and cloaks gathered around two wooden bird-coops with birds inside.

A Group of Figures Surrounding Two Bird-coops

Bernardo Bellotto, 1742-68

Pen and ink architectural elevations of a classical house facade with columns, arched windows, and a corner tower.

Design Projects, House Elevation Studies

Carl J. Furst, c. 1860-1870

Manuscript leaf with red staff lines, brown square musical notes and large gothic script lettering, with a purple Bologna sta

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Cosimo Tura, 1470s

Pencil sketch of a church spire, rooftops, a wooden chair, and faint rocky forms on cream paper, dated Aug 68.

Architecture and Landscape Sketches, Austria or Switzerland

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil study of a dense cluster of trees and foliage on tinted paper, with handwritten inscription in lower right corner.

Study of Trees, Geneva

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Sketch for the painting Christ in Gethsemane

Ilya Repin, 1893

Pen and wash sheet of figure studies with a central grey vignette of a seated man and a standing woman in a gown.

Design for a Book Illustration of Circe and Odysseus [recto]

Thomas Stothard, 1803

Red chalk drawing of oxen, a sheep, a dog and a horse on open ground, with faint sketched figures above.

Animal Studies

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, mid-late 17th century