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Drawings & Sketches

79,663 works

Engraving of elegant courtly figures dancing around a pedestal with musicians, with a banquet and a severed head in the backg

Dance of the Daughters of Herodias

Israhel van Meckenem

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar and buttoned coat, with a Latin caption naming Petrus Brevgel below.

Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Netherlandish Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Etched portrait of a bare-shouldered woman with hand on chest before a dark wooded hillside, with German caption on left.

Woman

Arnold Böcklin, 1880

Engraving of a haloed allegorical figure with a sword and scales, standing beside a lion, in fine cross-hatched lines.

Justice

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Dark wash drawing with white highlights of two draped women in a dim doorway, with a small lizard on the floor.

Ceres changes Stellio into a lizard

Adam Elsheimer, 1605

Pencil sketch of a veiled woman bending over a nude infant, with drapery studies below, on a gridded sheet.

Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with Saint Jerome

Francesco Vanni

Hand-colored plate of a Canada lynx crouching on a mossy log with foliage behind it.

Canada Lynx

John James Audubon, 1830

Watercolor and graphite landscape of tall trees, a misty lake and mountains, with sunbeams breaking through clouds.

Scottish Landscape

Gustave Doré, 1873

Drawing of Mars in a chariot pulled by horses through clouds, with winged figures and reclining attendants around the edges.

Ceiling Design with Mars Driving His Chariot

Lattanzio Gambara, 1565/69

Grey wash drawing of rocky wilderness with monks in robes giving water to a woman and child beside a stream.

Two Monks giving Water to a Woman and Child in the Wilderness

Carlo Labruzzi, n.d.

Engraved topographical map of Vienna and the Danube with military formations, tents, villages and a title cartouche.

WIENN/Von Christen entsezt den 2. (12.) Sept,/Anno 1683

Daniel Suttinger, 1865

Pen drawing of children crowding a kitchen table and oven, one in a chef's hat, with a steaming bowl and open oven door.

Too Many Cooks

Katherine May Roberts, 1900/13

Pen drawing of a girl at a table watching a woman in a long skirt carry a teacup in a cottage dining room.

A Country Mouse

Katherine May Roberts, n.d.

Etching of two figures in a dark forest looking down at a bearded man half-buried beside a skull, with an owl overhead.

The Discovery of a Buried Man

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1760

Engraved design plate numbered 79 showing an ornate coffee pot on a stand with two seated figures holding cups.

Coffee-pot and Stand from

Czech Maximilian Joseph Limpach, 1710

Engraving of two peasant couples: dancing pair on left, woman with wreath and man with staff on right, labeled September and

September and October

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of the Flight into Egypt: Mary on a donkey holding the infant Christ, angels above, palm trees and a deer.

The Flight into Egypt

Martin Schongauer, 1400

Charcoal sketch of curving railway tracks by a riverbank with old houses, chimneys and a domed building behind.

Wiental

Karl Wiener, 1926

Pen drawing of a rider thrown near a broken fence while a man in a top hat on horseback watches hounds pursue across a field.

Hunting Scene: Horse and Thrown Rider

Francis Arthur Fraser, 1867/83

Black chalk study of a standing male figure with one arm raised and bent knees, on grey-brown paper.

Staande figuur met gebogen knieën

Adriaen van Ostade, 1620

Etching of two magi and two boys seated among ruins with a sheep and a sleeping figure in the foreground.

Two Magi and Two Boys, plate 14 from the from Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Pen and ink drawing of a horseback rider in a top hat facing a wooden gate where two children lean over the rail.

The Barrier is Closed

Francis Arthur Fraser, 1867/83

Pencil sketch of men raising glasses in a toast at a table with wine bottles and a boar's head, with a chef at left.

Wildschweinessen

Felician von Myrbach-Rheinfeld, 1895

Watercolor drawing of Saint Basil's Cathedral's domes above a terrace, with a robed figure at right under a hazy sky.

De St. Basiliuskathedraal te Moskou

Marius Bauer, 1898

Pale moonlit drawing of the Taj Mahal reflected in a pool, with minarets, trees and a robed figure at the water's edge.

Taj Mahal bij maanlicht

Marius Bauer, 1877

Ink and wash sketch of robed figures in animated conversation, one seated at right, on a warm brown ground.

Groep Oosterlingen in druk gesprek

Marius Bauer, 1877

Charcoal drawing of a sandy road past trees and farm buildings under a heavy sky, with a figure walking and reeds in front.

Zandweg te Wijhe onder een zware lucht

Théophile de Bock, 1861

Young woman in white cap sewing by a window in a room with patterned tablecloth and carved wooden furniture.

Het zonnige hoekje': jonge vrouw in een kamer te Hindelopen

Christoffel Bisschop, 1838

Engraving of a woman beside a smoking urn, an old man kneeling with flowers, a child, and potted plants.

L'Odorat (Smell) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Drawing of a dune landscape with a sandy path, a bare tree at right, and a cloudy grey sky.

Duinlandschap

Théophile de Bock, 1861

Red chalk drawing of a river landscape with a stone building, boats, tall trees and reflections in the water.

Landschap bij Nijmegen

Théophile de Bock, 1861

Wash drawing of fishing boats with masts drawn up on a pale beach, with small figures standing near the hulls under a hazy sk

Vissersboten op het strand van Scheveningen

Johannes Bosboom, 1873