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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Ink and pencil design sketch for a napkin ring on gridded paper, with German handwritten notes and a 1911 signature.

Ontwerp voor een servetring

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1911

Pencil sketch of a comb-shaped hair ornament with tapering teeth, annotated with handwritten notes dated 1911.

Ontwerp voor een haarsieraad

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1911

Watercolor of overlapping autumn leaves in red, brown, yellow and purple on a cream sheet with a painted grey border.

Herfstbladeren

Reijer Stolk, 1944

Design drawing of a spoon and fork in front and side views with geometric handles on squared grid paper.

Ontwerp voor een lepel en een vork

Mathieu Lauweriks, 1874

Pencil sketch of about a dozen caricatured male heads wearing top hats, bowler and wide-brimmed hats on tan paper.

Schets voor spotprent met dertien koppen met hoeden

Johan Michaël Schmidt Crans, 1880

Half-Length Portrait of Woman in Profile, Facing Right

Peltro William Tomkins, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a fountain and monumental staircase with reclining figures, urns, and architectural framing.

Manuscript page with a Project for a Fountain (recto); Project and Plan for a Monumental Staircase (verso)

Luigi Vanvitelli, ca. 1740-60

Werbung

Karl Wiener, 1929

Pencil architectural elevation with pedimented aedicules, arched niches, and sculpted figures over a faint construction grid.

Detail study for the façade of Milan cathedral

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Pen and ink drawing of a city skyline with church spires and sailing ships on a river.

View of Antwerp

Wenceslaus Hollar

Engraving of a seated woman in a headscarf leaning on a palm tree, with a reclining figure and pipe at lower right.

Femme de MATSMEY a la terre d’Ieço

François Boucher, 1730

Pen and ink design sketch of a theater interior with columns, arches, drapery swags, a hanging lamp and curved balustrade.

Design for a Theater Interior

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Cubist still life drawing of a bottle and wine glass on a table, rendered in graphite and white chalk on brown paper.

Still Life

Roger de La Fresnaye, probably 1920

Engraved still life of a wicker basket overflowing with tulips, peonies and other flowers, with butterflies around the bouque

Basket with Flowers on a Table, Plate 8 from the series Livres de plusieurs paniers de fleurs [Flowers in a Basket]

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, 1690

Colored architectural plan of a bank and stock exchange building section with roof framing, a hexagonal court and colonnade.

Werck.satz zum IIten Bautheile des neuen Bank und Börsengebäude

Heinrich von Ferstel, 1856

Watercolour drawing of a tall waterfall falling into a round blue pool among rocky hills and green trees.

Waterfall at Drakenstein at the source of the Great Berg River

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Hunters shooting hippopotamuses in a river, with wagons and tents on the right and flat-topped mountains in the distance.

Hippopotamus hunt at the Seekoei River

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1778

Drawing of a standing woman with beaded necklaces, bangles and a child on her back, on a grassy ground line.

A Xhosa (possibly Gonaqua) chieftan’s wife with an infant on her back

Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777

Watercolor drawing of a standing man in a red braided uniform, tricorn hat and riding boots, holding a rein.

Een voorrijder

Isaac Lodewijk la Fargue van Nieuwland, 1766

Drawing of a bearded man in a turban reaching toward a kneeling woman gathering wheat, with a standing figure behind.

Ruth and Boaz

Possibly Jacob Weyer, n.d.

Pen drawing of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat and full skirt with a cape collar, with a black shoe at upper right.

Gazette du Bon Ton, 2e année, No. 8, 9, p. 26

George Barbier, 1913

Watercolor of a man in a tricorn hat and blue coat with gold braid, red breeches, gesturing with one hand.

Een koetsier

Isaac Lodewijk la Fargue van Nieuwland, 1766

Watercolor of two women in bustle gowns and a young girl in a striped white dress standing by a lake.

Twee vrouwen en een meisje, Mai 1870

Jules David, 1870

Watercolor fashion plate of five 1865 bonnets and hats with flowers, veils, ribbons and feathers, signed by Héloïse Leloir-Co

Le Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles, 1865, No. 760, Pl. 15

Héloïse Leloir-Colin, 1865

Watercolor of children and women in 1890s fashions playing in a garden, a girl on a swing, trees and a tower behind.

Kinderkleding 1890

Watercolor sheet with six 1859 women's bonnets and hats in blue, green, black and red, trimmed with lace, ribbons and flowers

Zes hoeden, 1859

Laure Colin-Noël, 1859

Etching of a seated woman in a robe holding a parasol in a rocky landscape, with a French caption below.

NIKOU femme Bonze ou Religieuse Chinoise

François Boucher, 1730

Engraving of Christ enthroned on clouds with Mary and John the Baptist, and St. Paul and St. Catherine below.

Jesus Christ, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist with Saints Paul and Catherine

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Pen and ink architectural drawing of a chapel altar elevation with Corinthian pilasters, a shield cartouche, and a plan below

Project for a Chapel in the Church of San Ciriaco, Ancona

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700-1773

Engraving of soldiers attacking mothers and infants in a paved street before an arched bridge and city towers.

Massacre of the Innocents (without the Fir Tree)

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510

Pencil caricature of a tall figure with a harp, whip and jester-like head, with German caption beneath.

"Wie aus der schwarzgelben Geisel der / radicale Geisel Hanswurst entstand." (Karikatur)

Francisque, 1848

Pencil drawing of a young woman's head and shoulders with curly hair and faint construction lines on cream paper.

Portrait Head of Girl

J. Aspinall, n.d.