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Drawing on tan paper of a lion, a recumbent dog, and a reclining animal, with handwritten French annotations.

Fountain Design with Three Bronze Animals

Charles Le Brun, 1680

Chalk drawing of a triangular pediment with a central shield-bearing female figure, horses, a chariot, and seated allegorical

Industry and Commerce (Design for Pediment)

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Loose pencil sketch on tan paper of winged figures in motion, rising across the page with a museum stamp in the upper left.

Sketch of Winged Figures for Ascension

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Loose pencil sketch on tan paper showing several figures in a rough composition, with a reclining form at lower right.

Sketch of Charity, Faith, and Hope

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1880

Sketch of Horseshoe Falls with white highlights on brown paper, rocks at the base and Terrapin Tower on the far bank.

Horseshoe Falls and Terrapin Tower, Niagara River, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Painted textile border design of white and blue lilac blossoms and green leaves on a rust-brown background.

Design for the Border Motif of a Woven Fabric of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pencil and chalk drawing of a stone gate tower with pointed roof and gabled houses along a village street on tan paper.

Neumagen sur la Moselle (Neumagen on the Moselle)

Eugène Edouard Soulès, 1820

Watercolor study of two drooping chestnut branches with green serrated leaves and pale hanging catkins on a tan background.

Study of Chestnut Tree Branches

Sophia L. Crownfield, 1900

Pencil and watercolor sketch of gnarled cypress tree trunks in a grove, with a small building at the right edge.

Cypress Trees of Chapultepec, Mexico

Samuel Colman, 1890

Wash drawing of a domed ceiling design with coffered panels, classical columns, putti and a central hexagonal opening.

Design for a Painted Oblong Ceiling

Andrea Pazzi, 1700

Charcoal and white chalk study of a male head with curly hair, drawn from a plaster cast on tan paper.

Male Head From a Plaster Cast

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Engraved ceiling design with garlands, putti and a central medallion showing a classical scene with figures.

Project for a ceiling. With alternative suggestions

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Engraving of a couple on a tricycle and other cyclists on a riverside road, with a steamboat on the river.

Wheeling on Riverside Drive

Thure de Thulstrup, 1880

Watercolor of a formal salon with a crystal chandelier, red velvet curtains, a chaise longue and gilded candelabra.

A Small Salon in the Montpensier Wing, Palais Royal

Jules Frédéric Bouchet, 1830

Pastel sketch of figures seated and standing on stone steps before a brick building with open doorways, on brown paper.

The Steps

James McNeill Whistler, 1880

Lithograph of rows of men in dark suits below an allegorical woman crowning a kneeling woman, with flags and state seals.

Coronation of Womanhood

Susan B. Anthony, 1880

Hand-colored lithograph of oval portraits of United States presidents around a central Washington medallion and Declaration s

Presidents of the United States

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

John B. Evens

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Watercolor of rounded brown hills with pale winding channels, dark trees on ridges, and a stormy purple sky.

Deserted Bed of a Glacier

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Oval miniature of a sleeping woman with dark curly hair, one arm raised, wearing a white chemise and blue drapery on red cush

Sleeping Beauty

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, 1850

Watercolor of a winding stream through a green meadow with wildflowers and a dark tree line beyond.

The Babbling Brook

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Sepia ink and wash drawing of historic cannons enclosed by a chain between stone pillars, surrounded by bare trees and hills.

West Point Revolutionary Relics

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Charcoal drawing of an angular, fragmented figure built from geometric planes and dark hatched shading.

Abstract

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a seated woman in a hat, her figure fragmented into angular geometric planes against an interio

Abstract--Woman

Chalk drawing of a turbaned figure seated among clay pots with bearded onlookers and a block of verse text.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Loquacious Vessels

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Knave of Hearts (costume design for Alice-in-Wonderland)

William Penhallow Henderson

Chalk portrait drawing of a man in a buttoned coat and white cravat, turned left against a hatched brown background.

Der Buchhändler Johann Heinrich Besser

Philipp Otto Runge, 1792

Red chalk study of a reclining male figure in drapery beside a faint sketch of a standing female figure on tan paper.

Studie für eine lagernde männliche Figure, recht Gegendruck einer stehenden weiblichen Figur

Nicolas Lancret, 1701

Etching of a nude male figure and a draped woman with a bow beside a radiant sun, with a cherub below.

Allegorische Szene: Apoll und Diana (?), vielleicht ein Frontispiz

Isabella Piccini, 1662

Brown wash drawing of a dim mill interior with a millstone, stone steps, a grain sack and an open window.

Interior of a Mill

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling woman washing feet at a banquet table with seated and standing figures.

The washing of Christ's feet by Mary Magdalene

Pen and wash drawing of Venus and Cupid under a draped tent, with Flora and Zephyr embracing at left.

Venus und Amor unter einem Zelt sitzend, links von ihnen stehen Flora und Zephir

Joseph Heintz the Elder