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Drawings & Sketches

79,659 works

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple, with a priest, columns and kneeling mother.

Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Charles Mellin, ca. 1643

Pencil drawing of a river with boats on the bank, a sailing boat, a row of tents under trees, and distant hills.

On the River Grey, N.Z. (miners' camp)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Virgin Mary on clouds gestures to Saint Joseph with a lily while a kneeling nun looks up, with cherubs above.

The Virgin Placing St. Teresa of Avila Under the Protection of St. Joseph

François Guillaume Ménageot, ca. 1787

Pencil sketch of a seated nude male figure on a stool, turned toward the viewer, with loose shading.

Untitled [Study of a male nude]

Petrus van der Velden, 1869

Pencil sketch of a clock tower with spires and turrets above a stone arched bridge over a river.

The Clock Tower

Charles Meryon, ca. 1852

Watercolor study of four striped tulips with stems and leaves, a butterfly and a grasshopper, labeled in Dutch.

Four Tulips: Boter man (Butter Man), Joncker (Nobleman), Grote geplumaceerde (The Great Plumed One), and Voorwint (Wi…

Jacob Marrel, ca. 1635-45

Brown ink sketch of a standing man with a walking stick in a doorway, with handwritten inscriptions above and below.

The Duke of Buccleuch

Francis Grant, 1860

Pen and brown ink drawing of a crowd in a interior, with a man lifting a reclining figure on the floor.

Saint Paul Restoring Eutychus to Life

Taddeo Zuccari, 1529-66

Watercolour of a seated man in a top hat on a dog-cart with two harnessed dogs beside a London milestone.

Man in dog-cart

Brown wash drawing of a river with a rowing boat, a stone arched bridge, a round temple and a brick tower.

A View of the Tiber from the North Bank, with the Temple of Vesta, the Campanile of S. Maria in Cosmedin and the Pont…

Achille Etna Michallon, 1819

Sepia drawing of an oxcart and figures approaching a fortified stone tower, framed by large trees and a stream.

Oxcart Approaching a Fortified Building

Achille Etna Michallon, 1817

Watercolour plate of eleven numbered New Zealand neuroptera insects, winged adults and larvae, with scale bars.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate I]

George Hudson, 1904

Brown and white wash drawing of a bearded man in robes gazing upward, holding an open book in an arched niche.

Saint Matthew

Domenico Beccafumi, 1538

Untitled. (Man's head)

Elizabeth Berry, 1929

Charcoal drawing of three laborers resting on a grassy bank beside a tree, with shovels and tools in the foreground.

Roadworkers at Lunch

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1850-52

Charcoal sketch of a peasant woman in a cap working at a churn beside a wooden tub.

Woman with a Churn

Jean-François Millet, 1854

Watercolour of mounted cavalry troops in blue uniforms before a redoubt with buildings and a chimney on a grassy hill.

Right troop, Alexandra Cavalry, Manaia Redoubt

George Sherriff

Pen and ink drawing of an elaborate domed building with arcades, staircases, figures in a garden, and distant mountains.

Susanna at her Bath

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1526

Charcoal drawing of a shepherdess with a staff beside her grazing sheep flock, with tall trees on the right.

A Shepherdess with Her Flock

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1852

Pen and white highlight drawing of a robed figure pointing beside a fountain in an arched colonnade, with a seated figure ato

Saint Catherine of Alexandria Refusing Idol Worship (?)

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1500

Brown ink and wash landscape of a river valley with trees in the foreground and mountains in the distance.

Flusstal bei Kloster Ettal

Ferdinand Kobell

Pen and watercolor drawing of a woman in a headscarf leaning on a pitchfork beside a smoky field fire.

A Woman Burning Weeds

Jean-François Millet, 1830-75

Pencil drawing of dense trees on steep rocky cliffs with an open valley between them, signed C. Frommel.

Bewaldete Felsen bei Tivoli

Carl Ludwig Frommel, 1815

Pastel drawing of a shepherdess leaning on a tree beside grazing sheep and a dog in a shaded pastoral landscape.

A Shepherdess and Her Flock in the Shade of Trees

Jean-François Millet, 1854-55

Grey wash drawing of a hunter with dogs in a rocky forest, a haloed figure above, and German verse in the upper left.

Allegorische Jagd-Szene

Willem van Bemmel

Watercolour of a steam train winding along a railway through a wooded valley, with distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Rimutaka railway from above Cross Creek

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1887

Drawing of a woman shearing a sheep beside a man in a hat under a large tree, with a fence and cottage behind.

Sheepshearing Beneath a Tree

Jean-François Millet, ca. 1854

Pencil and wash sketch of a young man on scaffolding beside a vine-wrapped post, with a pulley and a small animal sketch.

Moritz von Schwind auf dem Baugerüst

Moritz von Schwind, 1838

Pencil sketch of a frowning man in a long coat before a crowd of faint figures and a city skyline with chimneys.

"Miserere nobis" (Bleistiftskizze)

Karl Wiener, 1935

Charcoal drawing of a woodcutter raising an axe over bundled faggots beside a stacked pile of wood, with a forest behind.

Woodcutter Trimming Faggots

Jean-François Millet, 1853-54

Pen and brown ink drawing of a rocky landscape with a stream, steep cliffs, and dense trees under an open sky.

Felsige Gebirgslandschaft mit Bach

Johann Joseph Hartmann

Study of Slovak Highlander

Zsigmond Nagy, 1910