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Watercolor of a sunlit music room with a grand piano, caned chairs, gilt-framed paintings, and tall windows.

The Music Room of Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)

Julius Eduard Wilhelm Helfft, 1840

Watercolor of a cluttered study with bookshelves, stained glass windows, a fireplace, a daybed and a green-topped table.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Study, Townshend House, London

Anna Alma Tadema, 1880

Saint-Mémin folio 5

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1780

Mezzotint portrait of a man in a wig and period coat, pointing to ships in a harbor beside a table with charts.

William Shirley

Peter Pelham, 1740

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Abraham Lincoln standing beside a table with a book, green drapery and red chair behind.

Abraham Lincoln

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg, 1860

Woman in a green gown sits on a crescent moon beside a brown owl, surrounded by soft pastel clouds.

The Witch's Daughter

Frederick Stuart Church, Grand Rapids, MI 1842-New York City, 1880

Watercolor of slender birch trees rising through misty, muted undergrowth in browns, greens and grey.

A Tree Study

Ross Turner, 1870

Watercolor of the crumbling adobe walls of Pueblo Bonito on an open plain, with mesas and a soft sky behind.

Pueblo Bonito Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

De Lancey Gill, 1880

Pastel portrait of a woman in a dark veil and gold comb against a warm brown background, by Alice Pike Barney, 1930.

Spanish Comb

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Watercolor of a park with trees, clothed and nude figures on a lawn, a horse and rider, and rolling colorful hills.

Park Scene

Maurice Prendergast, 1910

Pastel drawing of a woman with flowing hair set against a swirling woodland of green and blue trees.

Vision through Woods

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Charcoal drawing of two windswept women beside a block of handwritten verse, against dark swirling clouds.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Whence and Whither?

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pen and brown wash drawing of a man with a lute beside a woman playing a harp, with a sketched figure above.

Kaffeeklecksalbum Seite 97a: "Musikantenpaar"

Michael Echter, 1827

Brown wash drawing of a satyr family with goats in a wooded landscape, a large tree at left and a child at right.

Satyrfamilie in einer Landschaft

Gaspard Dughet, 1601

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded classical scene with soldiers, a seated figure, and columned architecture.

Death of Virginia

Gabriel François Doyen, 1757

Watercolor landscape of a wooded valley with a river, cliff, conifers, and small figures fishing and resting in the foregroun

Mountainscape

Johann Albrecht Friedrich Rauscher, 1789

Watercolor of a sleeping muleteer under a tree beside a laden donkey, with a lake and mountains in the distance.

Schlafender Eseltreiber unter einer Baum an einem See

Wilhelm von Kobell

Charcoal drawing of a bearded monk and a fishmonger at a table of fish, with hanging fish on the wall behind.

Monk with a fishmonger

Otto Scholderer, 1890

Pen and watercolor drawing of a prince and courtiers in a hall before a closed door, with a seated man at left.

Ein Fürst mit seinem Gefolge an einer verschlossenen Tür, neben der ein erschöpfter Mann sitzt

Christian Sambach

Watercolor of a dancing boy before a brick house, with a dog, seated women, a child in a doorway, and a rural landscape.

Savoyardenknabe vor einem Hause tanzend

Maria Margaretha la Fargue, 1772

Watercolor of a woman with two children and a seated old man outside a brick cottage with thatched roof, church tower behind.

Vor der Haustür sitzt ein alter Mann, dabei eine Magd und zwei Kinder

Johann Friedrich Morgenstern

Brown wash drawing with white highlights showing a reclining man tormented by demons while robed figures watch at left.

Hiob von Dämonen geplagt

Brown wash drawing of a forest path with two armored warriors, a woman in a white robe, and a distant valley.

Heroic landscape with the death of Opheltes during the march of the Seven against Thebes

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1798

Grey wash drawing of a sailing ship in a stormy sea, with a dismasted ship on the right and a rocky cliff on the left.

Seesturm, rechts ein entmastetes Schiff, links ein Felsen, an welchem ein Schiff vorbeisegelt

Brown wash drawing of a thatched farmhouse under a large tree, a woman with a bucket, fenced path and grazing sheep.

Bauernhaus unter Bäumen an einem Weg, der mit einem Zaun eingefasst ist

Jan Evert Grave

Grey ink and wash drawing of a wooded path with large trees and two dogs in the lower right foreground.

Landschaft mit zwei Hunden

Jacob van Liender

Pen and watercolor drawing of a farmyard with a tree, cow, ducks, figures, and a stone archway beside a gabled house.

Unter einer Schleuse am Zoo

Colour print of a speckled brook trout leaping from a river past green riverside plants and rocks, with a fishing line.

Untitled - Samuel Kilbourne, 1874

Samuel Kilbourne, 1874

Print of Christ rising with a red-cross banner above four sleeping soldiers, framed by columns and a wooded landscape.

The Resurrection of Christ

Piero della Francesca

Watercolour of a bearded man seated in a cluttered second-hand shop filled with books, ceramics, framed pictures and antiques

A second-hand shop, Paris

Owen Merton, 1910

Brown wash drawing of a stone courtyard with gabled buildings, arched doorways, and figures near the entrances.

Plas Mawr, Conwy

David Cox the elder

Brown wash drawing of trees and foliage beside a stone wall, with pale sky breaking through the branches.

Fairy dell

Petrus van der Velden