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Drawings & Sketches

79,493 works

Pen and wash design drawing of a tall candlestick with six leaf-shaped candle cups, winged sphinxes, and an ivy-wrapped colum

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1810

Pencil sketch of the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens, with ruins and fallen stones in the foreground.

The Parthenon and Erechtheion, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and wash drawing of a bishop with a crozier giving alms to a kneeling man in a columned interior with landscape.

Saintly Prelate Distributing Alms

Christoph Amberger, 1505-62

Painted design for an embroidered border with yellow leaf garland, orange drapery swags, fringe and twisted rope on brown pap

Design for an Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pencil and paint sketch of a mauve mountain rising over a pale tan plain under a grey-blue sky.

Mountain Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Graphite drawing of a man with a long curly wig and white collar, turned toward the viewer, on tan paper.

Portrait of Fleury

Georges-Edmond Dargouge

Graphite sketch of four monkey head studies on tan paper, one large frontal face and three smaller angled views.

Monkey

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Watercolor of a Venetian canal street with brick buildings, a footbridge, a lantern, and a figure in a dark cloak.

Canal, Venice, Italy

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1880

Pencil sketch of a waterfall and cliff beneath a moon in the night sky, titled Niagara Moonlight.

Niagara Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a wooded ridge and leaves on pale paper, with a small bird form and handwritten notes at right.

Wooded Ridge and Leaves, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Red chalk drawing of a seated young woman in a headscarf and wrap, resting on a wooden stool with draped skirt.

Seated Young Woman

Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of a calm canal with a moored sailing boat, trees, reeds and a thatched farmhouse behind.

De Kromme Mijdrecht aan de Amstel

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Pencil sketch of wooden sheds and a barn among trees, with a cart and wheelbarrow in a grassy yard.

Schuren tussen bomen

Egbert van Drielst, 1755

Ink drawing of a skeleton in a top hat with a scythe bearing an anti-vaccination banner, striding over numbered graves.

Dood komt met de anti-vaccinatie

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Pen and ink caricature of two men, one with a hand on the other's shoulder, beneath a sign reading Malaise Werkloozen.

Werkloosheid

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Ink caricature of a railway official pointing at a woman in a ticket window, with a man in a hat standing between them.

Spoorweginspectie

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Pencil sketch of rugged mountain peaks and ridges on tan paper, with handwritten color notes and white highlights.

Approaching Mt. Hor

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Two Studies of a Bugler

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and ink drawing of a standing female saint with flowing hair holding a chalice and host, dated 1513.

St. Barbara with a Chalice and Host

Hans Baldung Grien, 1513

Ink drawing of a sea horse creature with a human face, fish tail, and horse legs stepping over scattered coins.

Zeepaard en oorlogspaard

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Ink caricature of two men in conversation, one in a wide hat holding a scroll, the other in a fur-trimmed coat with a cane.

Diplomatieke overdenkingen

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Pen and ink caricature by Patricq Kroon showing two exaggerated men in a satirical pose with handwritten marginal notes.

Colijn en het onderwijs

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Brown ink and wash drawing of a lake with a small boat, clouds above, and trees along the shore.

Imaginary Landscape with a Boat

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Loose oil sketch of a calm sea horizon under a pink and gray streaked sky with soft clouds.

Icebergs in the Distance, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and ink study of a seated bearded man in half-length, twisting torso, loose hatching and draped cloth.

Study of a Seated Nude, Bearded Man in Half-Length

the Elder Francisco de Herrera, 1610-54

Ink and wash caricature of a man in a hat aiming a pistol beside a Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen signpost by the shore.

Man met pistool in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Drawing of a white polar bear on a chain beside a uniformed man in a spiked helmet, with a blue and white coal bucket.

Duitsland en Rusland

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Brown ink and wash drawing of a sphinx tied by rope to an ornate tripod stand with a flaming urn.

Fender

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink drawing of a black wolf at the VOLKENBOND building while a caricatured mustached man in a plumed hat looks on.

Nederland en de Volkenbond

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Pen drawing caricature of an elderly man with a FACISME banner, walking stick and scattered papers, by Patricq Kroon, 1920.

Sam van Houten en het fascisme

Patricq Kroon, 1920

Ink and blue wash caricature of two elderly men in formal black coats, one holding a scroll, signed P. Kroon, 1915.

De troonrede

Patricq Kroon, 1915

Brown ink and wash sketch of a seated draped figure in a vaulted stone interior with arches and pillars.

Sketch, Seated Allegory in Architectural Setting

Fortunato Duranti, 1820