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Painted woodland stream with rocky banks, dense shrubs and grass in the foreground under a hazy olive sky.

Woodland Stream, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil design sketch of a teapot and two covered sugar bowls with scroll handles on tan paper.

Drawing - George E Germer, 1910

George E Germer, 1910

Pencil and white highlight sketch of a sky with clouds, a shaft of light over hills, and handwritten color notes.

Sunset, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor study of a cow's head facing forward, with white face, brown ears and curved horns on tan paper.

Two Studies of Cattle

Samuel Colman, 1870

Mrs. William Wright and Child

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Graphite and white chalk study of two hands resting on a toned brown paper, with an inscription below.

Study of Hands for Elderly Woman in "Communion of the Sick"

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Drawing of two helmeted soldiers in cloaks, one holding a shield, with a kneeling woman and a small head study.

Two Soldiers and a Kneeling Woman

Eustache Le Sueur

Graphite and white chalk study of a right hand with a folded cuff on tan paper.

Study of Right Hand, Possibly for Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, Jr.

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Graphite drapery study on tan paper showing a standing figure in a heavy classical robe with lightly sketched head and arm.

Drapery Study for "Tribute Money"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil sketch sheet of architectural capitals, corbels, moldings and small child figures, labeled Bourges, Nevers and Saint-E

Nevers and Bourges

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Foreground Studies, Ramapo

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Sepia woodcut of a muscular nude Hercules lifting his arms as a giant wrestles at his feet in a cave with cattle and bones.

Hercules Killing Cacus

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1580

Pencil sketch of a wooden chapel with a tall spire and bell tower, a gabled roof, and surrounding trees on tan paper.

Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Sylvia

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of a large paneled room with a fireplace, a seated reader, and a side table with a flower vase.

Sketch of Large Room

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Oil sketch of a sunlit rocky peak above a broad valley with a distant mountain range under a pale blue sky.

Mount Pentelicus, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and charcoal sketch of three young birds with open beaks in a grass nest on brown paper.

Birds

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Pencil drawing of sailing ships moored at a busy wooden pier with cranes, workers and birds in the sky.

Shipyard and Pier

James Henry Moser, 1870

Ukiyo-e woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono and two men with a pole, before a town with a bridge and boats.

Four Actors in a Town Landscape

Hosada Yeishe, 1800

Grey wash drawing of a haloed Christ rising above a crowd, with a cross-bearing figure and floating angel on clouds.

Christ in Limbo

il giovane Jacopo Palma, 1620

Charcoal study of a seated nude woman leaning forward with an outstretched arm, with draped cloth beside her on tan paper.

Study of Seated Nude Figure

Louis Schaettle, 1900

Watercolor of a Gothic dining hall with paneled walls, stained glass, portraits, a laid table, and figures in period dress.

View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford

Joseph Nash, 1850

Sketch of an ornate church portal framed by stone columns, with a Latin inscription above and a small cat in the foreground.

San Giovanni Apostolo et Evangelistae

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Ink and white drawing titled Solitude with a rustic branch frame, vines, a star, and an oval lakeside landscape with a cresce

Solitude

Louis Eilshemius, 1870

Grover Cleveland

George Burroughs Torrey, 1880

Chalk portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat, one hand on a wooden chair arm, by John Vanderlyn.

Joel Barlow

John Vanderlyn, 1790

Dominic Ignatius Murphy

William H. Bell, 1880

Soft pastel portrait of a woman's head and shoulders in green and blue tones, with blurred features.

A Memory

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pastel drawing of a short-haired nude woman leaning against a gold screen decorated with roses and green leaves.

Nude against Screen

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pastel portrait of a bearded man in a straw hat with a black band, turned three-quarters, on brown paper.

Hippolyte Dreyfus

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Book cover design with swirling light ribbons, starbursts, ivy and the title Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, drawn by Elihu Vedder.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Cover

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Drawing of a bearded man tending a plant in an urn beside a window, with a verse panel and glass vessels on a table.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Vain Pursuit

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Watercolor and ink drawing of a heavenly city above a path of figures, with a devil and skeletal Death figure at lower right.

Representation of the Different Ways Leading to Everlasting Life or Eternal Damnation

Gustav Sigismund Peters, 1840