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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Brown ink and wash drawing of a helmeted soldier with spear and shield, with two head studies in the lower left.

Soldier Running :Study for Figure in Left Foreground, "Betrayal of Christ," Rome, S. Maria della Consolazione, Mattte…

Taddeo Zuccari, 1520

Red chalk drawing of a seated turbaned woman reading an open book, with a younger figure behind her on the left.

The Persian Sibyl

Michelangelo, 1600

Brown ink and wash drawing of a draped classical figure on a pedestal in a colonnaded street with crowds and vessels.

Nuptiae

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown wash drawing of a crowded classical ceremony with a canopied throne, kneeling figure, colonnade, and distant city.

Study for a Fresco: Allegory in Honor of Ranuccio Farnese

Francesco Salviati, 1510

Pen and wash design drawing of a tall reliquary with a domed top, two standing female figures, and a fluted pedestal.

Design for a Reliquary of the Holy Cross

Luzio Romano, 1530

Pen and brown ink drawing of two scenes: a crowd around a pedestal above, and a shrouded body carried on a bier below.

Apollonius Curing a Young Athenian Possessed of a Demon [above]; Apollonius Raising a Girl from the Dead in Rome [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pen and ink drawing with wash of two mitred bishops with crosiers standing among robed saints under a scrolled border.

Augustine, Ambrose, and Other Saints

Belisario Corenzio, 1590

Pen and brown ink drawing of a symmetrical architectural stage backdrop with arches, columns, pediments and oval cartouches.

Design for a stage backdrop with alternative suggestions

Vincenzo Scamozzi, 1600

Pen and brown wash sketch of Christ reaching to save Saint Peter from drowning beside a sailing boat in rough seas.

Christ Saving Peter from Drowning

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved page with two ornate ewers decorated with sea figures, cherubs, masks and strapwork.

Designs for Ewers, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

René Boyvin, 1540

Engraved elevation of a multi-story stone house facade with dormer windows, pediments, and shopfronts on the ground floor.

Maison Rue Neuve Notre-Dame; Facade Demolié en 1828

A. Lenoir, 1600

Pen and brown wash drawing with two scenes: a giant blinded by men above, and a body on a bier with onlookers below.

Blinding of the Cyclops Polyphemus [above]; The Fidelity of a Roman Dog [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved plate of a canopied bed, two armchairs and swagged drapery in a paneled room, labeled Tapissier.

Split Interior Elevation Showing Upholsteries

Engraved pendant design with an armored figure in a central niche, scrollwork ornament, ribbon bow and hanging drops, on a bo

Pendant Design

Flemish Hans Collaert the Elder, 1580

Pen and brown wash drawing of two religious interior scenes with crowds of figures beneath arches and beside a column.

The Mocking of Christ [left]; Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1580

Engraving of townspeople under an arcade, with a figure hoisted in a basket from a tower in the background.

The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Engraved grotesque panel with winged putti, grape vines, a central urn, female term figures and acanthus scrolls.

Grotesque with Putti and Grape Vines

Master of the Die, 1530

Pen and wash drawing of an interior with cooking figures at left, a robed man before a canopied bed at right.

The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Venereal Disease

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraving of Saint John seated on an eagle among clouds, writing in a book within a radiating halo of light.

Saint John, writing, seated on an Eagle

Giulio Romano, 1510

Black engraved ornament design with a central cup-like motif, flanking tapered panels, and scrollwork, mounted on a book page

Ornament Designs

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Brown ink drawing of a galley with oarsmen approaching sirens with serpentine tails in the sea, under clouds.

Odysseus and the Sirens

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Woodcut of crucified Christ surrounded by saints, angels, and rose garlands, with figures rising from flames below.

The Great Rosary

Erhard Schön, 1510

Engraved design sheet with an ornamental cross flanked by crescent and pedestal motifs, decorated with fine scrollwork.

Designs for a Cross and Ornament

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Brown ink drawing of a dense cavalry battle above, with loose pen sketches of figures and horses below.

Charles V defeating the Turks near Vienna, 1529 [above]; Battle Scene with King, Elephants, Cavalry and Infantry [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved plate of Hotel Torpanne facade sculptures: arched relief panels, an oval medallion, and a frieze with winged figures

Hotel Torpanne: Sculptures de la Facade

A. Lenoir, 1600

Engraved ornament plate with a black oval cartouche of scrollwork and flowers inside a decorative foliate border, on a page.

Ornament Design

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowded religious procession with a canopy, soldiers with pikes, and classical buildings.

Procession of the Sacrament

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Etching of a mythological sea vessel with a dragon prow, armored soldiers, a tree on deck, and a trumpeting escort ship.

Calai e Zeti condotti da Borea et Oritia, from Vessels of the Wedding Celebration of Cosimo de' Medici in 1608, plate 5

Remigio Cantagallina, 1600

Engraved portrait of a woman with a jeweled upswept hairstyle, pleated lace ruff, and pearl necklace, dated 1600.

Portrait of Catherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil (1579-1633)

Flemish Hieronymus Wierix, 1600

Brown ink drawing of rowing boats attacking a whale in a harbor, with a crowd on the quay and classical buildings behind.

Whale Hunt by the Emperor Claudius at Ostia

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590