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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Portrait of a young man (unidentified sitter)

Edwin Austin Abbey

"Spezfisch Wienerische Profile" / "Die letzten Repräsentanten echten Wienertums" [u.a. "Fiaker", "Pülcher", "Spiesser…

Hans Schließmann, 1900

Pen and wash drawing of a seated king addressing robed monks while armored soldiers stand nearby before classical architectur

Saint Benedict and King Totila

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pencil drawing of a leafy tree with a sturdy trunk and spreading branches on tan paper, dated 1839.

Tree

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1839

Watercolor and ink drawing of children playing on a dirt lot between tall city tenement buildings under a blue sky.

Spielende Kinder

Karl Wiener, 1926

Pencil sketch of a tall twisting tree in a glade with smaller trees and undergrowth behind it.

A Glade of Trees

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1835

Charcoal and chalk drawing of timber houses and trees on a hillside, with a small shrine niche and a path curving below.

Houses and Ruined Wall Overlooking River

I. B. F. Keim, 1877

Pen and wash sketch of a crowded martyrdom scene with figures, columns and a standing figure in a niche.

Martyrdom of Saint Andrew

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Sheet of sketches with a barking dog, militia men with rifles, women and children, a horse and wagon, and boys.

Barking Dog and Studies for "Militia Training"

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1841

Pen and ink drawing of a muscular man wrestling a bull in an arched interior with spectators on a balcony.

Hercules Capturing the Cretan Bull, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink caricature of a bald, heavy-featured man with cross-hatched shading, signed K Wiener.

Spießbürger

Karl Wiener, 1926

Pen and ink drawing of Hercules seated on rocks, holding a golden apple beside a tree and a coiled dragon.

The Apples of the Hesperides, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Gray wash drawing of three men in a rowboat on calm water, one standing and raising an arm, on a pale paper ground.

Men in a Rowboat

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1840

Charcoal study on blue-grey paper of two nude male figures holding torches with smoking flames, with sketched arches above.

Study of two flamebearers

Edwin Austin Abbey

Charcoal drawing of a stylized bald man's face with a large nose and pursed lips, mounted on cream paper.

Spießer

Karl Wiener, 1926

Grey wash sketch of four men struggling around a uniformed militia figure in a tall shako hat, with cast shadow.

Study for "Militia Training" [recto]

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1841

Pen and ink sketch of a centaur carrying a woman on its back, with an archer and loose landscape hatching behind.

Hercules, Nessus the Centaur, and Deianeira, from "The Labors of Hercules"

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Red chalk drawing of a bearded man in robes with a pointing woman and helmeted soldiers behind him.

Peter Denying Christ, engraver's copy after a painting by Lorenzo Pasinelli

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink architectural elevation of a large house with portico and dome, with a plan below showing a spiral staircase.

Elevation and plan for interior of large house

John Trumbull, 1790

Pencil drawing of a leaning tree and rocks in the foreground, with two small figures and a distant tower on the shore.

Figures by the Shore

James Goodwyn Clonney, 1830

Ink and purple watercolor drawing of a tall skeleton striding toward a crouching figure beside a tree.

Spuk

Karl Wiener, 1921

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded sailor in a cap leaning by a barrel on a rocky shore beside an overturned boat.

Captain Sandy

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1883

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, flanked by two winged angels, on an octagonal sheet.

Virgin and Child Attended by Angels

Filippino Lippi, 1457/58-1504

Black ink drawing of a night city with angular buildings, smokestacks, a man in a top hat reaching toward a moon.

Spukhafte Nacht

Karl Wiener, 1926

Black chalk and white highlight drawing of a seated monk in robes gazing upward, holding a book and a staff.

Seated Monk

Denys Calvaert, mid-16th-early 17th century

Circular drawing of classical gods, muses and a helmeted warrior with shield, winged figure above, in brown ink and white hig

Classical Gods, Muses, and Allegorical Figures

Giuseppe Salviati, 1566-67

Views of a Theater (Bayreuth): Profile View of Facade and Half of the Plan

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, 1696-1756

Ink and wash elevation drawing of an ornate theater facade with a central royal box, balustrades, and draped canopy.

Views of a Theater (Bayreuth): Interior Elevation of the Theater Showing Royal Box

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, 1696-1756

Pencil sketch of gnarled trees leaning over a pond with reflections in the water.

Landscape with Trees near a Pond

Willem Roelofs, 1840-97

Pen and red chalk design sketch of a two-door wall cabinet with scrolled ornament, panels and brackets.

Ontwerp voor een muurkastje

Baldassare Franceschini, 1650

Pen and brown ink drawing of three bands of swirling scroll ornament with red chalk frame guidelines on paper.

Ontwerpen voor lijsten

Baldassare Franceschini, 1650

Sheet with red chalk and brown ink studies of ornamental scrolled hanging lamp designs with tassels.

Ontwerp voor een hangende kerklamp

Baldassare Franceschini, 1650