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Study of a nude winged putto seated on a cloud in a blue roundel, holding musical instruments, with a bird on a branch.

Study for Roundel with Putto Holding Attributes of Music

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Brown ink and wash drawing of a nude figure bound to a column while two men raise whips in a colonnaded hall.

Sketchbook Page: Flagellation of Christ

Felice Giani, 1810

Ink and wash sketch: figures in a colonnade above, and warriors fighting dragons below, with handwritten text between.

David Receives the Holy Bread and Sword of Goliath [above]; Two Dragons Decapitated [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash sketch of mounted cavalry with banners in a battle scene, with riders scattering across an open field.

The Dispersion of the Spanish on the Adda under Giovanni de’ Medici

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1580

Loose oil sketch of rooftops and a domed church with a bell tower under a pale blue sky.

Rooftops near Sant'Andrea delle Fratte from the Via Gregoriana, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of birch trunks and a dark tree among saplings and golden autumn foliage on the forest floor.

In the Woods, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing of two bedroom alcove designs with draped curtains, pilasters and decorative cornices.

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Snow-capped mountain rising through mist and clouds above dark hills, with a pale moon in a rust-coloured sky.

Chimborazo through Rising Mist and Clouds, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Etched portrait of an elderly bearded preacher in a fur collar and ruff, with books and a draped curtain behind him.

Jan Uytenbogaert, Preacher

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Loose oil study of a brown and white cow grazing with its head down on a dirt ground, with a barn wall behind.

Study of a Grazing Cow

Samuel Colman, 1870

Watercolor of half-timbered medieval houses with slate roofs and a woman with a pitcher beside a brick wall.

Street Scene with Medieval Houses

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Print of a sacred banyan tree over a white shrine at Gyah, with carved reliefs and turbaned figures nearby.

The Sacred Trees of the Hindoos At Gyah, Bahar, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Thomas Daniell, 1800

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