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Drawings & Sketches

79,494 works

Brown wash drawing of a standing woman in an empire gown beside a desk with sheet music, and a laurel-crowned harpist behind

Portrait of Angelica Catalani de Valabrègue

Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau, ca. 1815

Pen and wash design drawing of a dish stand with extending arms, scrolled supports, and a central spirit lamp.

Design for a Dish Stand with Extending Arms and a Small Spirit Lamp

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1810

Ink sketch of a spear-carrying rider on a camel leading a caravan, with faint pencil figures of other camels behind.

Desert Caravan, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen drawing of a fantastical tree man with a face, ladder and jug, in a landscape with a deer and heron.

The Tree Man

Hieronymus Bosch, 1455

Brown wash drawing of a seated man in a fur cap and spectacles beside a stove, with a quill and books on a table.

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, n.d.

Small sketch of lightning striking through rose-tinted storm clouds above a dark treeline and distant hills at dusk.

Storm over the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of two old women tending a seated bald man with a bowl, with small sketches in the margins.

A comical barber scene

Hieronymus Bosch, 1477

Watercolor poster design with two men in long coats in a central panel, surrounded by yellow sunburst rays and German words.

"Gespräch", Graz

Karl Wiener, 1924

Red chalk drawing of rococo pediments, scrolls and an arched niche with a cartouche and musical instruments.

Preparatory Studies for Plates 90 and 91 of "Maisons de plaisance," Volume II

Jacques-François Blondel, 18th century

Pencil and blue crayon design for a heart-shaped necklace case with handwritten German annotations and a silversmith stamp.

Ontwerp voor een etui voor een halsketting

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Pen sketch of a salt and pepper vessel design with curved scroll forms on tan paper, with pencil guide lines.

Ontwerp voor zout- en pepervaten

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Pencil design sketch on grid paper of a salt and pepper container with geometric spiral construction lines and handwritten no

Ontwerp voor zout- en pepervaten

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1913

Brown ink and wash drawing split into two scenes: Erminia with a shepherd above, and Atalanta hunting a boar below.

Erminia and the Shepherd [above]; Atalanta hunting the Calydonian Boar [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pen drawing of a bare tree with an owl and birds, with ears among trees and eyes scattered on the ground.

The Trees have Ears and the Field has Eyes

Hieronymus Bosch, 1500

Drawing for "La Colonne Trajane"

François Boucher, 18th century

Pencil sketch of a palm tree with spreading fronds and handwritten notes on the right side of the page.

Botanical Sketch of a Palm Tree, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil design drawing of a necklace with elongated links and a pendant of clustered stones over radiating construction lines.

Design for a Necklace

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1912

Design drawing of a gold necklace with a fan-shaped pendant set with blue panels, on a brown background.

Ontwerp voor een halsketting met hanger

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornamental pendant link on squared graph paper, with pencil measurements below.

Ontwerp voor een schakel in een halsketting

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Pencil design sheet of a green-stoned necklace with numbered links and small pendant studies.

Ontwerp voor een halsketting

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Pencil drawing of a necklace design with numbered links and a yellow-tinted circular pendant, with handwritten notes.

Ontwerp voor een halsketting

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1912

Pen and brown ink drawing of owls perched in a gnarled tree with a spider web and distant village landscape.

Het uilennest

Hieronymus Bosch, 1505

Pencil drawing of a grain silo on a riverbank with a steamboat and tugboats on the water and smokestacks behind.

Getreidespeicher an der Donau

Karl Wiener, 1925

Architectural elevation drawing of a two-story house with a porch and arched windows, plus a wall section at right.

Joseph H. Lathrop House Addition, Elmhurst, Illinois, Elevation and Section

Bauer & Loebnitz, c. 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of a tiered baroque steeple with columns, statues and a domed top, with handwritten notes.

Steeple in baroque style in the style of Borromini

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pencil sketches of several chalices and goblets on cream paper, one with a coiled knob on its stem, with a faint annotation.

Ontwerp voor een miskelk (?)

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Loose painting of a white house with dark roof among palms and trees under a pink and orange sunset over hills.

A Country Estate, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen drawing of grotesque singing men crowded inside an oval, one holding an open songbook and another raising a cup.

Concert in an Egg

Hieronymus Bosch, 1465

Pen and wash design drawing of a circular clock with cherubs, a seated draped woman, and a lower frieze of putti and garland.

Design for a Clock

Henri-Charles-Antoine Baron, mid-19th century

Ink architectural drawing of north and south elevations of a house addition with arched windows, bay window and chimneys.

Joseph H. Lathrop House Addition, Elmhurst, Illinois, Elevations and Section

Bauer & Loebnitz, c. 1870

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a sandy site with a wooden observatory, a standing figure, huts, a dog and cooking pots.

Vesterby's Observatory on Læsø

Martinus Rørbye, 1847

Pencil sketch of a violinist seen from behind, bow raised, with a smaller partial figure drawing below.

Musician playing the violin

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880