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Red chalk drawing of a reclining nude female figure on draped cloth, with grey shading and a sketched interior behind.

Reclining Nude Figure (recto); unidentifiable sketches (verso)

Jean-Antoine Watteau, n.d.

Ink and white chalk drawing on grey paper of three standing male figures in draped robes, studied from different angles.

Three Standing Figures

Francesco Primaticcio, 16th century

Pen and wash drawing of robed figures and a mitred bishop joining hands beneath a curved arch, a religious marriage scene.

The Marriage of the Virgin (Lunette)

the Younger Giorgio Picchi, 1580-1600

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash showing groups of sketched figures, including kneeling nude men and women.

Figure studies (after Raphael's Disputa)

Raphael, 16th century

Brown wash drawing of a kneeling bearded man with a staff beside a tree, a pig and a trough nearby, under a cloudy sky.

The Prodigal Son Kneeling Repentant among Swine

Salvator Rosa, 1615-73

Brown ink and wash drawing of an eagle carrying a winged youth above men in ancient dress gazing upward.

The Abduction of Ganymede

Giorgio Vasari, 1511-74

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

Brown wash sketch of a stag with antlers standing among several does on a toned paper background.

Stag and does

Edwin Landseer, 1820-73

Grey wash drawing of an ornamental oval cartouche with banners, drums, leaves and a crown, with an empty central field.

Design for Cartouche with Banners, Drums, Leaves and a Woman's Head with Tiara

Carlo Bianconi, 1732-1802

Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right

Bronzino, 1545-55

Pen and wash drawing of warships in battle, with gunsmoke rising around a central ship flying a flag on calm water.

Sea Fight

Willem van de Velde the Younger, mid-17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowd carrying stones past a palm tree, with an obelisk and a cloud-borne figure above.

The Jews Collecting the Twelve Stones from the River Jordan

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ca. 1535-38

Drawing of two camels, the front one wearing a patterned saddle blanket with tassels, on a tan background.

Two Camels

John Frederick Lewis, ca. 1843

Watercolor of an Arab school interior with pupils in turbans, a bearded teacher at right, and a boy kneeling at a lectern.

Arab School

John Frederick Lewis, 1841-51

Grey wash drawing after Giotto showing St. Francis on a bier, mourning monks, a procession and angels above.

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

William Young Ottley, 1795-1836

Pencil sketch of two men embracing at a grave while robed mourners with a crucifix and torches gather around them.

Hamlet and Laertes at the Tomb of Ophelia

Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1843

Drawing of scholars around globes and charts beneath a lantern, with ships on a sea panel above.

Petrus Plancius Instructing Students in the Science of Navigation

David Vinckboons, early 17th century

The Blessed Egidius (Cartoon for a Fresco in chapel at S. Maria degli Angeli, Assisi)

Lo Spagna, 1514-16

Pencil drawing of a stage set showing a timber cottage cutaway with curtains and a distant town on the right.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Interior of a Cottage

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Pencil drawing of a grand stage interior with a coffered ceiling, arched colonnades, classical columns and ornate balustrades

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Interior with Coiffered Ceiling

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Reddish-brown chiaroscuro woodcut in three panels showing nude men abducting women among horses and classical architecture.

The Rape of the Sabines

Andrea Andreani, 1585

Watercolor drawing of a canopied chariot procession with bishops, horses, and flying angels in a forest setting.

The Triumph of the Church: Ecclesia Presented with the Doctrines, Seated in a Chariot Attended by the Four Doctors of…

Otto van Veen, 1615-20

Grey wash drawing of a robed churchman among a crowd, with two flying cherubs above in an arched composition.

Saint Carl Borromäus

Melchior Steidl, late 17th-18th century

Engraving of the crowned Virgin holding the Christ child in an arched niche, with a palm branch and French inscription below.

The Virgin and Child in a Niche

Geoffroy Dumoûtier, 1543

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged angel and a young man with a staff walking beside a fish.

Tobias and the Angel

Hans von Aachen, 1552-1616

Engraving of Saint John the Baptist with halo and scroll, holding a cup, standing before a landscape with a walled city and p

Saint John the Baptist

Girolamo Mocetto, 1500-1506

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a kneeling bearded saint gazing up at angels among clouds.

The Vision of Saint William of Aquitaine

Giovanni Angelo Canini, late 1650s

Woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono sitting close on a veranda beside a lattice screen and a tea tray.

The Gossips

Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1767

Side-view drawing of a green and black brougham carriage with spoked wheels and a coach lamp, dated 1878.

Brougham #3477a

Brewster & Co., 1878

Side-view design drawing of a red and black brougham carriage with spoked wheels and a lamp, numbered 3585.

Brougham #3585

Brewster & Co., 1880

Color print portrait of a young man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a bundle of crayons, with a French inscription below.

Portrait of Edouard Gautier-Dagoty

Carlo Lasinio, 1783

Side-view design drawing of a blue and black brougham carriage with red-spoked wheels on a grey background.

Brougham #3661

Brewster & Co., 1881