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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Red chalk drawing of a landscape with trees, a stream, and ruined arched architecture under a pale sky.

Landscape with Architectural Structure

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a waterfall between trees, with a shepherd leading sheep across a hill in the distance.

Berglandschap met waterval tussen bomen, waarlangs een schaapherder zijn kudde voert

Gerard van Nijmegen, 1781

Brown wash drawing of a horse and several men pulling a log from a puddle on a wooded forest path.

Op een bospad trekt een paard een boom uit een plas, onder aanvoering van een viertal mannen

Gerard van Nijmegen, 1781

Graphite drawing on gray paper of a woman with lowered eyes and a white collar, with sketched hands below.

Untitled [frontal head and sketched in bust and hands of girl]

Emma H. Bacon, 1875

Drawing of a stone arched bridge in a stormy landscape with bent trees, a horse rider, and a seated figure.

Stenen boogbrug over stroomversnelling

Gerard van Nijmegen, 1745

Pencil sketch of a crumbling Gothic ruin with a broken tower, pointed arches and shrubs on the right.

A Gothic Ruin

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1830

Watercolor drawing of a manor house beside a canal with a wooden footbridge, tree-lined road and walking figure.

Huis Barbistein in Heinkensand

Joseph Adolf Schmetterling, 1821

Grey wash drawing of a manor house with stepped gables, a moat, and a wooden bridge, with two figures in the foreground.

De havezathe Warmelo bij Diepenheim, Overijssel

Joseph Adolf Schmetterling, 1761

Watercolor drawing of a moated manor house with a tiled roof, a couple at the water's edge and a garden to the right.

Kasteel 't Weldam bij Goor

Joseph Adolf Schmetterling, 1761

Watercolor drawing of Kasteel Beverweerd with towers and moat, two figures and a swan in the foreground.

Kasteel Beverweerd

Joseph Adolf Schmetterling, 1761

Grey wash drawing of a beguinage courtyard with a chapel, brick houses, a windmill and women in white habits.

Het begijnklooster De Berg Zion op Schouwen

Cornelis Pronk, 1731

Sepia drawing of a village church with a tall spire, surrounded by houses, trees and figures on a road.

Nieuwerkerk te Duiveland

Cornelis Pronk, 1735

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bearded old man in a cap leaning on a staff, arms crossed, in worn clothing.

Standing Old Man in Frontal View Leaning On a Staff

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pencil sketch of two children embracing on the ground, surrounded by smaller studies of children's heads and figures.

Studies of Children at Play

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1840

Abstract geometric composition of overlapping pastel shapes in pink, green, blue and red, signed G. Valmier, 1922.

Composition (No. 7888)

Georges Valmier, 1922

Grey wash drawing of a village square with a church tower, a well, small figures, houses and large trees under a cloudy sky.

Gezicht op Renesse

Cornelis Pronk, 1746

Grey wash drawing of a harbour with moored sailing boats, a quay with figures, houses and a church tower behind.

Gezicht op het haventje van Bruinisse

Cornelis Pronk, 1701

Pen and grey wash drawing of a village street with a church tower, gabled houses, large trees and figures.

Gezicht te Oudelande

Cornelis Pronk, 1746

Pen and wash drawing of a moated castle with a tall spired tower, a carriage and figures on the road, dated 1746.

Kasteel St.-Aldegonde te West-Souburg

Cornelis Pronk, 1746

Grey wash drawing of a church with a small tower and ruined arches, shepherd and sheep in front, trees on the right.

Kerk van West-Souburg

Cornelis Pronk, 1746

Chalk drawing of a young man with curly hair in three-quarter view, looking over his shoulder, with red and white garments.

Portrait of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View Looking over His Left Shoulder

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and brown wash drawing of robed men gathered around a seated figure beneath a tree, with a distant town behind.

Joseph Sold by His Brothers

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of an elderly man with thinning hair, high collar and buttoned coat, seen in bust-length view.

Portrait of a Man

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1835

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a standing woman with short auburn hair wearing a long pink empire-waist gown.

Sketch of a woman in pink - costume study for a play?

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a long coat and cap, smiling toward the viewer, on tan paper.

African-American Figure

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1840

Stylized colored pencil portrait of a woman with red hair and angular features, wearing a teal top, dated 1939.

"Spanien 1939", "Grausamkeit" (weibl. Porträt)

Karl Wiener, 1939

Pencil and chalk drawing of the Virgin and Christ child riding a donkey, led by an older man beside a tree.

Copy of a Repose in Egypt painted by Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi) 1592-1636, for a chapel in the Gard…

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Graphite sketch on blue-grey paper of a mounted knight with raised lance, beside a framed mural study with a kneeling figure.

Study for The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a cluster of boulders with grass and bare branches behind them, dated 1839 in the lower left.

Rocks

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1839

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed figures gathered around a mother and child beneath a classical column.

Adoration of the Kings

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pencil sketch of a weathered, split tree trunk with a knot, standing on grassy ground before a faint hill.

Old Tree Trunk

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1839

Drawing of the Virgin and infant Christ resting with Saint Joseph and putti under rays of light.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century