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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Pen drawing of the Nile with sailing boats, a city skyline with minarets, and fishermen in a boat in the foreground.

Gezicht op de Nijl met rechts op de voorgrond vissers

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a densely built city on the water with spires, an arched bridge, and sailing ships in the harbor.

Gezicht op een stad aan het water

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a city skyline with church towers seen across a hillside, a row of trees and fields under cloudy sky.

Gezicht vanaf een heuvel over een rij bomen op een stad

Johan Teyler, 1679

Grey chalk drawing of a mountain landscape with a leaning tree, distant valley, buildings and a winding path.

Mountain Landscape with Figures and Buildings

Thomas Gainsborough, mid-to-late 1780s

Pen drawing of a town of rooftops with a fortress on the horizon and sailing ships on the sea beyond.

Gezicht op een stad met in de verte een vesting

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a sailing ship and rowing boat on choppy sea before a hilly coast with a hilltop town.

Schip voor een kust

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a walled city across water, with a sailing ship, rowing boats and hills under a cloudy sky.

Gezicht over het water op een ommuurde stad

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a smoking volcano rising over rolling fields, with small figures and trees in the foreground under clouds.

Gezicht op de vulkaan Etna

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a three-masted ship sailing past a row of buildings on a harbour front, with small boats on the water.

Schip in een baai voor een havenfront

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of sailing ships on choppy sea near a cliffy coast with a hilltop town under clouds.

Enkele schepen voor de kust gelegen

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a three-masted ship on choppy sea before a hilly coastline with a town and clouds, 1679.

Schip gelegen voor de kust van Sicilië

Johan Teyler, 1679

Pen drawing of a ship moored before a row of townhouses on a quay, with a hilltop castle and hills behind the city.

Schip gelegen voor de kade van een stad

Johan Teyler, 1679

Graphite drawing of a wooded landscape with a standing man, seated woman, dog, fence and small cottage.

Landscape with Figures

George Frost, 18th or early 19th century

Pencil drawing of a farmhouse with thatched roofs among trees, a figure walking in the foreground, and birds in the sky.

Boerenhofstede te midden van bomen gelegen

Adriaen Hendriksz. Verboom, 1638

Watercolor woodland scene of a peasant leading a horse and cart along a forest path beside a pond.

Woodland Scene with a Peasant, a Horse, and a Cart

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1760

Sepia drawing of a figure resting with a donkey on a path beside large trees, with horses in the distance.

A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses)

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780

Etching of an elderly man in a dark study gazing at a glowing disc with letters before a gothic window.

Faust in His Study, Watching a Magic Disc

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Soft green wash landscape of a thatched cottage, grazing cows and sheep, and windswept trees under dramatic clouds.

Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1770

Lioness Roaring

Frederik Willem Zürcher, n.d.

Watercolor of a river lined with old buildings, moored sailing boats with masts, and figures on the quay under a pale sky.

River at Norwich

Thomas Girtin, early 19th century

Watercolor of Easby Abbey ruins and a gabled cottage beside a still river under a cloudy sky.

Easby Abbey

Thomas Girtin, 19th century

Pencil portrait of a young man with curly hair, white collar and pink plaid cravat, on an octagonal tan sheet.

Portrait Head

George Henry Harlow, 1816

Engraved design of a tiered epergne with shell bowls, flowers, scrolls and two putti, on a plain page.

Epergne, from "Disegni Di

Czech Maximilian Joseph Limpach, 1710

Red chalk drawing of many overlapping caricatured heads showing varied grimacing and shouting expressions.

Sheet of Studies of Heads

William Hogarth

Pencil sketch of a woman with long hair, head bowed, with faint figure studies beneath her on pale paper.

Head of a man and figure studies (recto). Minotaur with a maiden (verso)

Theodor Richard Edward von Holst, 1835-44

Sketch of a seated woman in flowing drapery, head resting on her hand beside a stone wall, in graphite on toned paper.

Study of a Seated Woman

John Hoppner, 1778-1810

Watercolor drawing of a standing young man in a white turban and long cream cloak, against a soft blue and beige wash.

Son of the Tunisian Ambassador

Ozias Humphry, 1780

Bearded Man in Oriental Costume

Ozias Humphry, ca. 1780

Pen and brown ink study of a nude male figure reaching forward, with a smaller nude figure beneath him.

Studies of a Nude Male Figure

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century

Pen and ink study of a nude standing man beside a robed figure raising a bowl, on brown paper.

The Baptism of Christ

Moncalvo, 16th century

Red chalk and ink drawing of Saint John the Baptist before Herod and Herodias, with soldiers and an arched doorway behind.

Saint John the Baptist before Herod and Herodias

Morazzone, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a bearded robed figure preaching to helmeted soldiers beneath trees and clouds.

Saint John the Baptist (?) Preaching to a Group of Soldiers

Giovanni Battista Trotti, 16th century