Gallery of classic sketches

208 public-domain sketches by 59 artists, each shown on the world map where it was drawn. Tap a sketch to see where.

The Piazzetta, Venice — J. M. W. Turner, 1840

The Red Rigi — J. M. W. Turner, 1842

Tailor’s Shop, Cairo — John Singer Sargent, c. 1891

Santa Maria della Salute — John Singer Sargent, 1904

Gondolas by the Salute — John Singer Sargent, 1903–1907

Near the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem — John Singer Sargent, 1905–1906

Corfu: Lights and Shadows — John Singer Sargent, 1909

Autumn on the Simplon — John Singer Sargent, 1909–1911

View from a Window, Genoa — John Singer Sargent, early 20th century

Above Lake Garda at San Vigilio — John Singer Sargent, 1913

Café Terrace, Arles — Vincent van Gogh, September 1888

The Langlois Bridge — Vincent van Gogh, March 1888

Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer — Vincent van Gogh, July 1888

View of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer — Vincent van Gogh, June 1888

Rocks at Montmajour — Vincent van Gogh, July 1888

The Montelbaanstoren — Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1640

The De Bok Mill — Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Campo San Giacomo di Rialto — Canaletto, 18th century

The Scala dei Giganti — Canaletto, 18th century

Innsbruck from the North — Albrecht Dürer, 1494

Courtyard of Innsbruck Castle — Albrecht Dürer, 1494

Arco Castle — Albrecht Dürer, 1495

Trento from the North — Albrecht Dürer, Spring 1495

Row of Houses, Krumau — Egon Schiele, 1914

Street Corner, Krumau — Egon Schiele, 1916

Sanjō Bridge, Kyoto — Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833

Lake Hakone — Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833

Morning View of Nihonbashi — Utagawa Hiroshige, c. 1833

Plum Garden at Kameido — Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge — Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857

St Nicholas Gate in Reval — Nikanor Chernetsov, 1829

View of Alupka — Nikanor Chernetsov, 1833

Tiflis and Mount Mtatsminda — Nikanor Chernetsov, 1830s

Nizhny Novgorod from the Oka — Nikanor Chernetsov, 1838

Staro-Kalinkin Bridge — Nikanor Chernetsov, 1839

Geyser Basin, Yellowstone — Thomas Moran, 1872

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone — Thomas Moran, 1872

Half Dome, Yosemite — Thomas Moran, 1873

Canyon of the Rio Virgin, Utah — Thomas Moran, 1873

Shoshone Falls, Idaho — Thomas Moran, c. 1875

Green River, Wyoming — Thomas Moran, 1879

The Tetons, Idaho — Thomas Moran, 1879

The Pass at Glencoe, Scotland — Thomas Moran, 1882

Mountain of the Holy Cross, Colorado — Thomas Moran, 1890

The Rock of Acoma, New Mexico — Thomas Moran, 1902

The Glass Window, Bahamas — Winslow Homer, c. 1885

The Blue Boat — Winslow Homer, 1892

View from São Bento, Rio — Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1821–1825

Rua Direita, Rio de Janeiro — Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1821–1825

Crater of the Colima Volcano — Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1834

Main Square of Lima — Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1843

Before the Gates of Kairouan — Paul Klee, 1914

Monastir (Bitola) — Edward Lear, 19th century

The Pyramids at Giza, Early Morning — Edward Lear, 1854

A Distant View of Mount Athos — Edward Lear, 1856

Corfu from Ascension — Edward Lear, 1862

Qasr Ibrim, Nubia — Edward Lear, 1867

Korti, Sudan — Edward Lear, 1867

Bavella, Corsica — Edward Lear, c. 1868

Benares — Edward Lear, 1873

Plains of Bengal from above Siliguri — Edward Lear, 1874

The Marble Rocks, Jubbulpore — Edward Lear, 1882

Avisavella, Ceylon — Edward Lear, 1884–1885

The Mitsui Shop in Edo — Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830

The Great Wave off Kanagawa — Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831

Ananuri Fortress — Vasily Vereshchagin, 1863

View of Shusha — Vasily Vereshchagin, 1865

The Shia Mosque in Tbilisi — Vasily Vereshchagin, September 1868

Ruins of a Temple in Chuguchak — Vasily Vereshchagin, c. 1870

Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum in Samarkand — Vasily Vereshchagin, c. 1870

Shah-i-Zinda in Samarkand — Vasily Vereshchagin, c. 1870

Sher-Dor Madrasah on the Registan — Vasily Vereshchagin, c. 1870

Shore of the Harbour, Sydney — Conrad Martens, 1849

North Brisbane from Kangaroo Point — Conrad Martens, 1852

Apsley Falls — Conrad Martens, 1874

Mount Erebus — Edward Wilson, 1911

Sunset from Hut Point — Edward Wilson, 2 April 1911

Beaufort Island — Edward Wilson, 1911

Ice Barrier at Cape Crozier — Edward Wilson, 1911

Victoria Falls — Thomas Baines, 1865

Boatman of the Zambezi Rapids — Thomas Baines, 1865

Ad Deir, Petra — David Roberts, 1839

Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives — David Roberts, 1839

The Circular Temple at Baalbek — David Roberts, 1839

Karnak — David Roberts, 1846

The Citadel of Cairo — David Roberts, 1846

The Diamond Mountains — Jeong Seon, 1734

Clearing After Rain at Mount Inwang — Jeong Seon, 1751

Agra Fort from the East — Sita Ram, c. 1815

Moti Jharna — Sita Ram, 1820–1821

The Taj Mahal, Agra — William Daniell, 1801

Bellevue, Mr. Dougherty’s Agency on the Missouri — Karl Bodmer, 1832

Fort Pierre on the Missouri — Karl Bodmer, 1833

Wellington Harbour — Charles Heaphy, 1841

Astrolabe Roadstead, Tasman Bay — Charles Heaphy, 1841

Rangitoto and Browns Island — Charles Heaphy, c. 1850

Auckland from near Mechanics Bay — Charles Heaphy, 1850s

Bream Head, Whangārei — Charles Heaphy, 1850s

Nomuka Island, Tonga — John Webber, 1777

The Resolution Beating through the Ice — John Webber, 1778

Snug Corner Cove, Prince William Sound — John Webber, 1778

Kealakekua Bay — John Webber, 1779

A Sledge in Kamchatka — John Webber, 1779

Summer and Winter Dwellings in Kamchatka — John Webber, 1779

View in Macau near Camões Grotto — John Webber, 1779

Krakatoa Island — John Webber, 1780

The Port of Honolulu — Louis Choris, 1816

Ice in Kotzebue Sound — Louis Choris, 1816

Temple on the Island of Hawaii — Louis Choris, 1816

Port of Unalaska — Louis Choris, 1817

Hellefoss — Johan Christian Dahl, 1826

View of Kongsberg — Johan Christian Dahl, 1825–1857

A Hut with a Well on Rügen — Caspar David Friedrich, May 1802

View of Arkona with Rising Moon — Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1805–1806

Old Sundborn Church — Carl Larsson, 1899

The Ruins of Persepolis — Eugène Flandin, c. 1850

The Band-e Amir Weir — Eugène Flandin, c. 1850

The European Factories at Canton — Thomas Allom, 1842

Whampoa from Danes Island — Thomas Allom, c. 1843

Near Bolton Abbey — Thomas Girtin, c. 1800

Sketch at Hampstead, Evening — John Constable, 1820

Plaza de Armas, Havana — Frédéric Mialhe, c. 1848

Tacón Theatre, Havana — Frédéric Mialhe, c. 1848

The Dieng Plateau, Java — Franz Junghuhn, 1853–1854

Gunung Sewu — Franz Junghuhn, 1853–1854

Angkor Wat — Henri Mouhot, 1860

Gateway of the Great Teocalli, Uxmal — Frederick Catherwood, 1844

Quebec from Cape Diamond Harbour — James Pattison Cockburn, 1827

Hope Gate, Quebec — James Pattison Cockburn, 1826–1847

Quebec from Pointe Lévis — James Pattison Cockburn, 1826–1847

A View over the Bosphorus — Amadeo Preziosi, 19th century

A Market in Front of the New Mosque — Amadeo Preziosi, 1879

Papantla, a Totonac Village — Carl Nebel, 1836

Main Square of Veracruz — Carl Nebel, 1836

General View of Zacatecas — Carl Nebel, 1836

Main Square of Guanajuato — Carl Nebel, 1836

Main Square of Guadalajara — Carl Nebel, 1836

Mexican Volcanoes from Tacubaya — Carl Nebel, 1836

Main Square of Mexico City — Carl Nebel, 1836

Henzada Seen from the Steamer — Colesworthy Grant, 1855

The King’s Palace at Amarapura — Colesworthy Grant, 1855

Mosque at Lucknow — Henry Salt, 1809

The Great Temple at Tanjore — Henry Salt, 1809

Pagoda at Ramisseram — Henry Salt, 1809

Ancient Excavations at Carli — Henry Salt, 1809

Calcutta — Henry Salt, 1809

The Obelisk at Axum — Henry Salt, 1809

The Town of Dixan in Abyssinia — Henry Salt, 1809

Mucculla in Abyssinia — Henry Salt, 1809

Near the Roodezand Pass, Cape of Good Hope — Henry Salt, 1809

Sandy Bay Valley, Saint Helena — Henry Salt, 1809

Kukko on Valaam Island — Ivan Shishkin, c. 1860

On Mount Kastel near Alushta — Ivan Shishkin, 1879

The Khan’s Palace in Baku — Grigory Gagarin, 1847

Caravanserai in Erivan — Grigory Gagarin, 1847

Ateshgah Fire Temple near Baku — Grigory Gagarin, 1847

Cathedral at Pitsunda — Grigory Gagarin, 1847

The Landing Place at Buenos Aires — Emeric Essex Vidal, 1820

Vydubychi Monastery in Kyiv — Taras Shevchenko, 1844

Bohdan’s Church in Subotiv — Taras Shevchenko, 1845

Pochaiv Lavra from the East — Taras Shevchenko, October 1846

Fort Kosaral in Autumn — Taras Shevchenko, October 1848

Schooners near Fort Kosaral at Sunset — Taras Shevchenko, October 1848

Kazakh Settlement on Kosaral Island — Taras Shevchenko, October 1848

Expedition Tent on Barsa-Kelmes Island — Taras Shevchenko, 8 August 1848

Fort Novopetrovsk from the Sea — Taras Shevchenko, 1856–1857

Gate and Walls of Meknes — Eugène Delacroix, 1832

A Room with an Alcove, Meknes — Eugène Delacroix, 1832

Arab Interior, “Delacroix’s Room” — Eugène Delacroix, 1832

Woman on a Terrace in Tangier — Eugène Delacroix, 1832

Kano from Mount Dala — Heinrich Barth, 1857

The Dendal in Kukawa — Heinrich Barth, 1857

Timbuktu from a Terrace — Heinrich Barth, 1858

View of Trebizond — Heinrich Barth, 1858

Cotopaxi Seen from Ambato, Ecuador — Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

Peak of Cayambe near Otavalo — Frederic Edwin Church, 1853

A Church in the Mountains of Ecuador — Frederic Edwin Church, September 1853

Iceberg off Newfoundland — Frederic Edwin Church, June 1859

Study of Cotopaxi — Frederic Edwin Church, c. 1862

Pirogue Races at Bassac — Louis Delaporte, 1873

Towers of the Bayon, Angkor — Louis Delaporte, 1880

Church at Thingvellir — Bayard Taylor, 1862

Governor’s Residence, Reykjavik — Bayard Taylor, 25 June 1862

Entrance to Almannagjá — Bayard Taylor, 1862

Hrafnagjá, the Way out of Thingvellir — Bayard Taylor, 1862

Reykjavik, Capital of Iceland — Bayard Taylor, 1862

Natural Bridge near Portland Point — Bayard Taylor, 1862

Kirkjubøur, Faroe Islands — Bayard Taylor, 1862

Adam Street, Kumasi — Thomas Edward Bowdich, 1819

Senate and Nikolskaya Gate in the Kremlin — Fyodor Alekseyev, c. 1800

Moskvoretskaya Street — Fyodor Alekseyev, c. 1800

View of Tsaritsyno — Fyodor Alekseyev, 1800

Prioratsky Palace in Gatchina — Andrey Martynov, c. 1801

Nikolsky Monastery on Lake Baikal — Andrey Martynov, c. 1806

View of Tomsk — Andrey Martynov, c. 1806

Summer Palace of Peter I — Andrey Martynov, 1809

Nevsky Prospekt from the Fontanka — Andrey Martynov, c. 1809

Colonnade of Anichkov Palace on the Fontanka — Vasily Sadovnikov, 1838

Palace Square — Vasily Sadovnikov, 1840s

The Neris River in Vilnius — Vasily Sadovnikov, 1848

Bogoyavlensky Monastery in Kostroma — Vasily Sadovnikov, 19th century

View of Kazan Cathedral — Maxim Vorobyov, 1810

Quay with Sphinxes on the Neva — Maxim Vorobyov, 1835

Bookstalls on the Spassky Bridge — Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1902

Vsekhsvyatsky Bridge and the Moscow Kremlin — Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1922

Fountain on Sukharevskaya Square — Apollinary Vasnetsov, 1926

Sparrow Hills near Moscow — Alexei Savrasov, 1850s

Volynskoye Village — Alexei Savrasov, 21 October 1887

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