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Drawings & Sketches

79,659 works

Pen and wash drawing of a winged putto playing a stringed instrument among cherubs, lutes, lyre and panpipes in a classical s

Sous Lydien

Abraham Bosse, 1660

Pen and ink drawing of a pale woman resting her chin on her hand against dark swirling hatching, titled Melancholie.

Melancholie

Karl Wiener, 1926

Grey wash drawing of two framed allegorical scenes with seated figures, a cherub, bearded men and clouds in arched niches.

Copies after Jusepe de Ribera

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, 18th century

Pen drawing of a coat of arms between two eagles on a pedestal, with a lute before a starred drapery and a French inscription

Das Chambrésche Wappen zwischen Adlern in einem Sockel, auf dem eine bekränzte Laute vor einem sternenbesäten Vorhang…

Abraham Bosse, 1660

Charcoal drawing of a bald man with wide staring eyes and a bushy mustache against a dark background.

Melancholischer Spießer

Karl Wiener, 1926

Pencil drawing of a seated helmeted putto with a raised sword, flanked by two anchors on a star-patterned carpet.

Sitzender behelmter Putto zwischen zwei Ankern auf einem sternenbestickten Teppich

Abraham Bosse, 1660

Brown ink and wash drawing of a shepherd with sheep and a dog in a clearing beside large gnarled trees.

Shepherd with His Flock in a Clearing

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1776

Watercolor of an ornate domed fountain in Constantinople with a city wall, cypress tree, and figures in a cobbled square.

The Well at the Seraglio Gate. Constantinople

Martinus Rørbye, 1836-1936

Grey wash drawing of sailing boats by a wooden jetty on calm water, with a distant town and cloudy sky.

Gezicht op het IJ bij het bothuisje

Johan Conrad Greive, 1847

Drawing of a half-nude armored warrior raising his fist before a crowd of Roman soldiers and onlookers in a classical city sq

Coriolanus Vows Eternal Hatred to Rome

Henri Lérambert, 1560-1609

Pencil drawing of sailing yachts and masts along a harbour front, with a rowing boat of figures in the foreground on calm wat

Eerste wedstrijd van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Yachtclub op het IJ

Willem Hekking jr., 1835

Grey wash drawing of a mounted rider with a banner leading a flag-bearing procession along a city street.

Overbrengen van de zegetekenen op het stadhuis

Ernst Witkamp, 1864

Watercolor of a red brick church with a tall tower and gabled roofs, beside a lawn, path and trees under a pale sky.

Gezicht op de Elthetokerk aan het Javaplantsoen

Frans Everbag, 1929

Pen and wash drawing of a busy Dam square with a palace, church tower, crowds, carts and ships at the harbor.

Gezicht op de Dam

Abraham Rademaker, 1686

Grey wash drawing of a crowded town square with a gabled weigh house, a carriage, horsemen and a tower behind.

Gezicht op de Dam met het oude stadhuis en de Waag met het vertrek van Maria de' Medici uit Amsterdam

Jan Frederik Christiaan Reckleben, 1867

Pen and brown ink drawing of a mounted procession entering an arcaded square crowded with onlookers and banners.

Ankunft einer Reitereskorte

Israël Silvestre

Sepia drawing of gabled waterfront houses, an arched gateway and rowboats along a canal.

Gezicht op de vismarkt bij de Dam

Antonina Houbraken, 1706

Watercolor drawing of the Château de Versailles facade over formal gardens, with a fountain, strollers, a dog and a boatman.

The Château de Versailles Seen from the Gardens

called the Chevalier de Lespinasse Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1779

Pencil sketch of wolves attacking a group of horsemen and rearing horses across an open landscape.

Hongerige wolven overvallen een groep ruiters

Eugène Verboeckhoven, 1826

Pencil and watercolor street scene of the Damrak in Amsterdam with pedestrians, a kiosk, and the Hollandsche Beleeningbank bu

Gezicht op het Damrak naast de Beurs van Zocher

Johan Martinus Anthon Rieke, 1861

Pen and wash drawing of a woman in a headscarf making lace beside a cat, with a window and canopy bed in the room.

De slapende kantwerkster

Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, 1795

Pencil drawing of a figure walking a dirt path past pollarded willows and a wooden fence beside a canal, dated 1863.

Gezicht op het Rustenburgerpad

Everhardus Koster, 1863

Pencil sketch of a man in a cloak and hat holding a horse, with a dog and a seated child in the lower left.

De ridder en de hond

Adrien Joseph Verhoeven-Ball, 1834

Watercolor drawing of the Palace of Versailles across a forest, with riders on horseback and two seated figures in the foregr

Versailles Seen from the Southwest

called the Chevalier de Lespinasse Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, 1779

Red chalk drawing of a seated woman in a bonnet and long skirt leaning on a chair, with hatched shading behind her.

Sitzende Frau (beidseitig)

Louis Rolland Trinquesse, 1701

Pencil drawing of a cow standing and drinking in shallow water beside grassy reeds, signed Verboeckhoven 1827.

Koe, staande in een plas

Eugène Verboeckhoven, 1827

Watercolor portrait of a bearded man with dark hair in a dark double-breasted coat against a muted background.

Portret van een man

Emile Charles Wauters, 1856

Watercolour of a forested river with leaning trees, rocky rapids in the foreground, and a cabbage tree at left.

Untitled (River scene, Porirua river?)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Charcoal and white chalk drapery study on grayish paper showing a robed figure with flowing folds of cloth.

God the Father

Eustache Le Sueur, mid-17th century

Brown ink and white heightened drawing of a she-wolf nursing two infants beside a pond, with a bearded man with a staff at ri

Die Wölfin mit Romulus und Remus

Moritz von Schwind, 1842

Grey wash drawing of moored sailing boats, a stone arch bridge, figures and a distant town on a rocky shore.

Ansicht auf Schiffe und Figuren, im Hintergrund eine Stadt

Hand painted plate XIV showing five numbered beetles and a larva with scale bars, arranged on a cream mount.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate XIV]

George Hudson, 1934