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Pencil sketch of Italian city buildings with a domed church, bell tower, and rooftops, with handwritten notes on the page.

City Buildings, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of distant mountains and clouds with handwritten colour notes including blue, pink and coppery yellow.

Mountainous Landscape with a Figure, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a large thunderhead over a waterfront with buildings, mast, and handwritten tonal notes on tan paper.

Thunderhead above Buildings, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted study of tall Corinthian columns and fallen stones among grassy ruins under a pale sky.

Pillars of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a narrow alpine lake flanked by steep mountains with snowy peaks in the distance.

View of the Königssee, Bavaria (Germany), Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a lake valley with jagged mountains and a small standing figure on rocks in the foreground.

Saint Aegidius by the Wolfgangsee, St. Gilgen, Austria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a round castle tower on a hillside with handwritten color notes in the margins.

Corner Tower at Tourbillon Castle, Sion, Switzerland

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a misty mountain gorge with a tower on a cliff top, peaks lit pink under a golden evening sky.

Castle in the Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Hazy distant hills under a pale sky, with a small bird on a leafy shrub at right and a grassy slope at lower left.

Distant Hills, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Loose painted sketch of autumn-toned rolling hills in reddish and ochre hues under a pale sky, with grass in the foreground.

The Catskill Mountains in Autumn, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of an infantry column marching with rifles across a field, mounted officers at center, bare trees and cavalry i

An Infantry Column on the March

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of distant mountain ridges with a small bare tree and shrubs in the foreground, on pale paper.

Blue Mountain Peak, from Bloxburgh, Jamaica, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketches on a small sheet mounted in an album, showing horses, a wagon, and figures in loose studies.

Sketches, Artillery on the March

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of mountains under a swirling sky with a small house and handwritten color notes.

Thunderstorm over the Alps

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a gun crew working around a cannon, with soldiers handling a rammer and stacked cannonballs nearby.

Gun Crew Loading a Cannon

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etching of Fitzroy Square with a classical building, bare trees, a horse and cart, and small pedestrians on an open street.

Fitzroy Square

James McNeill Whistler, 1878/81

Pencil sketches of a leafy tree and an uprooted tree with exposed roots on cream paper, dated September 1840.

Sketches of Tree and Roots, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Hazy blue mountains rise above a green valley with ferns and shrubs in the foreground under a pale sky.

In the Blue Mountains, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of farmhouses on a hillside with trees and distant mountains, inscribed Guaranda June 3 37.

Houses in the Mountains of Guaranda, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and watercolor sketch of craggy snowy mountains above a forested valley with a small farmhouse.

Hoher Göll and Hohes Brett from Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a kneeling soldier giving water to a wounded comrade, with a standing soldier and battlefield b

Soldier Giving Water to a Wounded Companion

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of a domed mosque with a minaret above a city wall, with trees at left and right, dated 1860.

Mosque in Bezetha, Jerusalem, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of two women in a theater box, one holding an open fan, with a balcony rail and flower basket above.

The Loge [recto]

Mary Cassatt, 1882

Pencil sketch of a woman bathing a toddler in a large tub, drawn on tan paper.

The Bath [recto]

Mary Cassatt, 1890-1891

Pencil sketch of women and a child in an omnibus interior, with a window and hats at the right.

In the Omnibus [recto]

Mary Cassatt, 1890-1891

Engraved print of a bearded captive seated on straw in a vaulted stone dungeon, chained at the ankle, with a jug beside him.

The Captive

Thomas Ryder, 1786

Engraved print of a mounted customs-border officer in dark uniform and shako on a rearing grey horse.

Nadstrażnik celno-graniczny w mundurze

Fryderyk Dietrich, 1831

Hand-colored print of men on a wooden flatboat on a river, one dancing with arms raised as a fiddler plays.

The Jolly Flat Boat Men

Thomas Doney, c. 1847

Engraving of civilians and soldiers on a road under a smoky sky, with wagons, a grieving family and figures on the ground.

Martial Law

John Sartain, 1872

Hand-colored print of a crowded county election scene with men in hats before a columned porch and a blue banner.

The County Election

John Sartain, 1854

Etching of two women seated on either side of a lamp, one reading or writing at a table, the other resting her head on her ha

Under the Lamp

Mary Cassatt, c. 1882

Engraving of well-dressed people with umbrellas crossing a rainy city street past a shop awning reading MUSIC.

April Showers

Winslow Homer, n.d.