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12,327 works

Pen and ink drawing of a tall church tower with a clock and columned portico, with a man carrying a sack in the foreground.

Michael's Church

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Pen drawing of a white lion pulling a chained carriage with a bearded archer, with the words 'Why not learn to write?'

Why not learn to write?

n.d J. C. Saterlee, 1860

Pencil sketch of a lakeshore with ruined stone buildings on a rise and rolling hills in the distance.

Tiberias from the Baths

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Untitled (standing female figure)

George Ault, 1920

Monochrome wash drawing of a leafy landscape with cypress trees and a circular inset showing a stone inscription marker.

Battle Pass, Prospect Park, Site of the Battle of Long Island

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

(Bedouin Studies)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown and white drawing of robed men, a wreathed figure with a staff, and a feast under grape vines beneath an inscribed pane

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Frontispiece

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal drawing of a screaming man with a hand raised to his head, with a French dedication in the lower right corner.

Head of Man Expressive of Horror

Victor Joseph Ségoffin, 1910

Pencil sketch of a geyser basin with a steam plume, rocky mounds, and distant hills on a pale sheet.

Lioness and Cubs, Upper Geyser Basin

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a two-masted sailing ship on choppy sea under a pale sky, with handwritten 'malta - in sight' lower right.

Malta (Ship)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Ink drawing of a street with a trolley car, a large house among trees, a utility pole, and a swirling sky.

Untitled (#14)

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Pencil sketch of a woman in a veiled headdress and belted robe, with smaller studies of a cap and bodice, captioned Costume o

Costume of Nazareth, Israel

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of tall turreted rock spires and a sloping canyon ridge, Yellowstone Canyon, by Thomas Moran.

Turreted Peaks in Yellowstone Canyon

Thomas Moran, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of two standing female nudes in an interior beside a window and curtain.

Two Standing Female Nudes

Pencil sketch of a building with hanging laundry, a robed figure at a doorway, and two arched openings.

House of the Governor of Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of layered coastal headlands and distant mountains, labeled Ida, Patroclus, Achilles, and Entering the Dardanel

Dardanelles

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a camp stool, a bedstead with animal-shaped legs, and a seated figure beside a small stand.

Campstool/Beadstand

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a ruined stone city wall with an arched niche, a cobbled path, a tree, and distant hills.

Wall of Zareh, Damascus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of Naples harbor with a red lighthouse, moored ships, sailing boats, and a dark stormy sky over the coast.

Naples from the Moli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of rocky mountain ledges and slopes with sparse vegetation, inscribed "Sinai from Horeb".

Sinai from Horeb

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel drawing of a harbor with steamships, masts and a glowing moon under a swirling green and yellow sky.

Untitled (NMG 1,248)

Will Henry Stevens, 1940

Brown and white chalk drawing of a reclining woman with flowing hair above handwritten verses, framed by blossoms and a water

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Invitation

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Watercolor study of a seated allegorical woman in gold above two miners working with tools, framed by laurel and scrollwork,

Mining (study for panel, Old Senate Office Building)

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Title page drawing for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Elihu Vedder, with lettering framed by blossoms and a knot motif.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Title Page

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a tomb entrance beside an ancient Egyptian boat, with a standing figure, serpents and hieroglyphs.

Entrance of Tomb of Kings, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Graphite pencil drawing of a flowering plant with frilled blossoms, buds, hairy stems, and lobed leaves on cream paper.

(Untitled--Plant Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1940

Red chalk drawing of a pastoral pond scene with nude figures, cattle, trees and a cloudy sky.

Classical Subject

Émile-René Ménard, 1930

Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs and a sloping hillside, with handwritten notes including Yellowstone Park, July 1892.

Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of two robed men seated indoors, one in a hooded cloak and one smoking a long pipe.

Bedouin

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Etching of two goats and a kid resting under a tree, with a flat landscape and church spire in the distance.

Two Goats and a Kid

Johann Heinrich Roos

Charcoal drawing of a reclining man on a stone slab beneath a hovering shrouded figure and starry sky, with a verse panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Suicide

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a bearded man beside clay pots, with handwritten Rubaiyat verses in a central panel.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Ungainly Pot

Elihu Vedder, 1880