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Drawings & Sketches

79,494 works

Pen drawing of a trophy design with bundled flags, spears, a drum and a central figure above a monument base.

Een van de vier trofeeën voor het monument op het Nationale feest ter viering van de Vrede van 17 december 1799

Bartholomeus Ziesenis, 1799

Pen and wash drawing of a classical urn with a flame on top of a monument, with a scale bar and handwritten caption.

Vaas op de top van het monument, 1799

Bartholomeus Ziesenis, 1799

Night drawing of the lit Amsterdam town hall with a crowd, marching figures and carriages in the square before it.

Illuminatie van het stadhuis te Amsterdam voor Willem V van Oranje-Nassau en Wilhelmina van Pruisen, 1768

Simon Fokke, 1769

Grey wash drawing of a statue of a helmeted female figure with spear and shield standing in an arched niche.

Standbeeld van de Vrije gewapende Bataafsche Republiek, 1799

Bartholomeus Ziesenis, 1799

Grey wash allegorical drawing with a seated helmeted woman, globe, books, telescope, and medallions below by Simon Fokke, 175

Allegorie op de oprichting van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, 1752

Simon Fokke, 1752

Grey wash drawing of a helmeted warrior statue with sword and shield in an arched niche.

Ontwerp voor een standbeeld: Dapperheid, 1799

Bartholomeus Ziesenis, 1799

Pencil caricature of a seated man in a checked suit with two faces looking in opposite directions, with German caption.

"Handels & Arbeitsminister zugleich und dabei das tiefst politische Schweigen.", Karikatur auf Minister Friedrich The…

Francisque, 1848

Drawing of two sailing squadrons flanking a monument with winged Victory, sea gods reclining in waves below.

Study for Decoration of the Obelisk at Port-Vendres

Charles de Wailly, 1783

Misty mountain valley with two figures leaning over rocks at right, drawn in soft washes of blue, ochre and grey.

Mountain Landscape with two Figures at the Right

Alphonse Legros, 1905

Pencil sketch of two draped allegorical women with flying cherubs, a garland, and a lion below.

Design for a Book Illustration

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II, 18th century

Red chalk drawing of an ornamental trophy with a ribbon bow, cherub heads, foliage, and a central cartouche.

Design for a Trophy

René Charpentier, n.d.

Watercolour design for a courtroom wall with scales of justice, crossed swords, robed figures, and red seats below.

Vijfde ontwerp voor marmerdecoratie in de Hoge Raad te Den Haag

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1868

Painted design of a pale raised hand with two fingers pointing up through clouds, set on a brown diamond-patterned background

Zwerende hand; ontwerp voor figuur van de marmerdecoratie in de Hoge Raad te Den Haag

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1868

Silhouetportret van Remigius Adrianus Haanen

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, 1819

Pencil drawing of a heraldic shield with a rampant lion, with faint tracings of other shields on a pale sheet.

Wapen van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

Nicolaas van der Waay, 1865

Silhouetportret van François Joseph Corneille Haseleer

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, 1819

Silhouetportret van Frederik Hendrik Hendriks

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, 1819

Silhouetportret van Egidius Stephanus Heynincx

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, 1819

Silhouetportret van Cornelis Petrus 't Hoen

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, 1819

Silhouetportret van Willem Pieter Hoevenaar

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, 1819

Silhouetportret van Johannes Franciscus Hoppenbrouwers

Elisabeth Alida Haanen, 1819

Pencil sketch of a distant town skyline with a church spire, windmills and masts along a flat shoreline.

Flushing from the Sea

Willem van de Velde the Younger, mid-17th-early 18th century

Brown wash drawing of nude figures clinging to trees and a bank amid floodwaters in a wooded landscape.

The Flood

Jan Cossiers, 1615-71

Ink drawing of a seated writer with quill and inkwell, beside a flying bird-like figure carrying prey above a ground scene.

The Notaries Flew of With The Prey (Escribanitos volaron con la presa)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Pencil drawing of Hansel and Gretel approaching a decorated stone house beside tall fir trees.

Hansel und Gretel

Karl Wiener, 1921

Ink wash caricature of grotesque riders on donkeys on a sunlit road, with a Spanish caption below.

They Don't Fall Off Their Donkey (They Don't Admit Their Error), (No caen de su burro)

Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807-45

Red chalk drawing of an ornamental ceiling design with scrolls, garlands, putti, and a seated female figure in an arch.

Ceiling Design

Matías Arteaga y Alfaro, 1633-1703

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated man in a tricorn hat holding a pipe, on blue-grey paper.

Seated Gentleman Holding a Pipe (recto); Half-Length Study of the Same Man (verso)

Francisco Bayeu y Subias, 1734-95

Pencil drawing of a theorbo lute centered in a circle, with curling ribbons draped symmetrically around it.

Théorbe

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pencil sketch of a village of thatched buildings across a field, with a wooden cart and tall grass in the foreground.

"Hatowize" (Blatt aus: Skizzenbuch Erster Weltkrieg)

Anton Heinrich Peschka, 1916

Pen drawing of a decorative lyre with flowing ribbons inside a circular border, labelled Phorminx, Grande lyre.

Phorminx, Grande lyre

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828

Pencil drawing of an ornate lyre with a ribbon bow and scrolls inside a circle, on aged paper.

Variété de la Grande Lyre

Pierre Félix van Doren, 1828