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Four vertical panels of nude mythological figures in brown wash, including Hercules and Saturn, by Maarten van Heemskerck.

Saturn Devouring a Child; Hercules Slaying the Hydra; Hercules Lifting Antaeus; Hercules Erecting the Columns of Calp…

Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550

Pencil sketch of a tree base with roots, a boulder, and shrubs on tan paper, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Drawing, Base of tree, boulder, possibly 1877

Frederic Edwin Church, 1877

Small painted sketch of a glowing sun setting over a dark wooded horizon with orange and gray sky.

Drawing, Landscape at sunset, 1860-70

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painting of a woman in red and blue lunging a chestnut horse across a grassy field, with a hilltop village behind.

Sir John Lavery 179

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and clouds on aged paper, dated October 1844.

Drawing, Broad rolling landscape with clouds, 1844

Frederic Edwin Church, 1844

Pen and ink sketch of the Madonna and Child with a female saint in the foreground and angels among clouds.

Madonna and Child with Female Saints

Anthony van Dyck

Watercolor of a seated young woman with bobbed dark hair in a green dress, leaning on cushions against a brown background.

A Sitting Italian Girl

Jules Pascin, 1912

Colored sketch of a crowded circus arena with a rider on horseback, winged dragon sculptures, flags and ornate towers.

Coney Island

Joseph Pennell, 1904

Pencil sketch of soldiers at rifle pits near a river bridge, with a mounted rider in the foreground and tents on a distant ri

Bridges and rifle pits at U.S. Ford-in the Rappahannock from rebel shore

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of Fairfax Seminary with a tall tower, tents, soldiers, and bare trees on brown paper.

Fairfax Seminary now General Hospital Headquarters for the Army of the Potomac

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of Bealton Station with tents, covered wagons, a rider, a two-story building, and a locomotive.

Bealton Station, on the Orange and Alexandria R.R. Depot of supplies

Edwin Forbes, 1863

Colorado

Alfred Waud, 1860

Graphite and chalk drawing of soldiers, families and children gathered in a street before a banking office building.

African American soldiers mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas

Alfred Waud, 1866

Pencil sketch of Civil War earthworks with log barricades, stakes, and embankments under bare trees in a flat landscape.

The defenses of Manassas on the Orange and Alex. R.R. north of the station, looking S.E.

Edwin Forbes, 1862

Pencil sketch of soldiers at a Thanksgiving meal in a military camp with tents, a campfire, and a dog.

Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861

Alfred Waud, 1861

Pencil sketch of a stormy shoreline with three figures in coats in the foreground and a wreck on the rocks.

Shipwreck

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of a seated soldier in a kepi holding a bayonetted rifle, captioned Guarding the prisoners, Petersburg 1864.

Guarding the prisoners. Petersburg, June 30, 1864

Edwin Forbes, 1864

Pencil sketch of a sailing ship and a steamship on hazy water, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Capture of a blockade runner

Alfred Waud, 1860

Pencil sketch of soldiers and mounted officers on a ridge watching artillery smoke over troops advancing across a field.

Shelling the rebel rifle pits on the Rappahannock-previous to the third crossing of Sedgwicks corps June 5th

Alfred Waud, 1863

Sepia drawing of soldiers at reveille with a cannon and bugler, and below, drummers and buglers beside tents at retreat.

The reveille on the line of battle

Edwin Forbes, 1876

Pencil sketch of cavalry charging over earthworks, with sabres raised, fallen horses in the foreground, and smoke over the fi

Charge of the 6th Michigan cavalry over the rebel earthworks nr. Falling Waters

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil and chalk sketch of a rifled cannon on a wheeled carriage beside a standing man, with a handwritten caption.

New rifled cannon at Washington Navy Yard

Alfred Waud, 1860

A played-out mule in hospital

Edwin Forbes, 1864

Pencil and chalk sketch of figures among railway tracks, with water tanks and engine houses burning under a smoky sky.

Destruction of Water Ta(nk)s & Engines & engine houses for pumping water into them at Jarrets Station

Alfred Waud, 1864

Pencil sketch of cavalry and artillery advancing across a field toward smoke clouds, with a flagbearer at right.

9th Mass. batt. Bigelows going into position at Gettysburg

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers and cannons on an earthwork parapet overlooking a rolling landscape, 1864.

The siege of Petersburg

Edwin Forbes, 1864

Pencil sketch of uniformed officers and horses in a field with cannon, overlooking a wide wooded landscape under clouds.

McClellan reconnoitering the Turnpike to Richmond from the Peach Orchard at Mechanicsville

Alfred Waud, 1862

Pencil sketch of horse-drawn artillery guns moving into position past a fence, with soldiers and mounted officers.

Butlers battery going into position

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of soldiers, horses and two flags beside an earthwork and split-rail fence in an open field.

Signal station on the south side of the Rappahannock River. Seen through a glass from the Union camps

Edwin Forbes, 1863

Pencil sketch of a mounted officer riding past a two-story building with onlookers, soldiers and bare trees nearby.

Robert E. Lee leaving the McLean House following his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant

Alfred Waud, 1865

Pencil sketch of Union cavalry and artillery advancing across a rolling field, with cannon smoke near the right.

General Greggs troops getting into action

Alfred Waud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a timber signal station on a rocky summit, with a flag, soldiers, and two mounted horses.

Signal station on the summit of Poney Mountain, near Culpepper (sic) Court House, Va

Edwin Forbes, 1863