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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Grey wash drawing of a theatrical hilltop town with turreted buildings, spires, and classical columns framing the scene.

Stage Design, Town on Hill with Turreted Buildings

Bibiena Family, 1770

Grey ink and wash drawing of a rocky valley with tall cliffs, trees, ruined walls and a building on a ridge.

Stage Design, Rocky Valley with Buildings

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of a windswept tree beside a classical colonnaded building with statues and a bridge.

Tree in Landscape with Building

Carlo Marchionni, 1770

Pencil landscape drawing of a farmhouse, leaning tree, wooden gate and rocky ground under a pale sky.

Landscape with Farm

Vincenzo Martinelli, 1800

Pencil drawing of a fortified town on a terrace with arched walls, trees, a paved path, and a lake with hills at left.

A Fortified Town Overlooking a Lake

Felice Giani, 1800

Red-brown print of a ruined arched aqueduct with goats, herders and a dog resting in the foreground.

Goatherds in Landscape with Ruins

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Woodblock print of boats crowded on a river with streamer-hung poles in the foreground and a distant mountain under blue sky.

Miyato River by Great Bank of Asakusa River, No 68 from One Hundred Views of Edo (Asakusa-gawa Okawa-bata, Miyato-gawa)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1790

Engraved view of Hampton Court from the Thames, with a wooden bridge, palace buildings, boats and figures on the bank.

View of Hampton Court from the Thames River, from Walter Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, 1740

Red-toned print of two turkeys in a landscape, one displaying its fanned tail beside trees and foliage.

Two Turkeys in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Etching of a rustic house above a waterfall, with a rocky cliff, tall trees, two figures by a river and a small boat.

Landscape with House Near a Waterfall

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, 1760

Engraving of a weir on the River Wye with fishermen holding long poles, a rocky cliff on the left and wooded hills behind.

A View of the River Wye, near Bakewell, Derbyshire

Robert Sayer, 1770

Sepia print of two ducks in a landscape with reeds, a leaning tree, grass and rocks.

Two Ducks in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Engraved view of Twickenham from the Thames with houses, a church tower, trees, and boats with passengers on the river.

View of Twickenham, from the River Thames, from Walter Harrison's History of London

John Cooke, 1740

Ukiyo-e woodblock print of two women in patterned kimono and two men with a pole, before a town with a bridge and boats.

Four Actors in a Town Landscape

Hosada Yeishe, 1800

Red-toned print of two birds with spread wings among leafy trees, grasses and a fallen branch in a landscape.

Hunting Scene: Birds in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Engraved view of Richmond from the River Thames, with a rowing boat, a bridge, riverside houses and trees.

View of Richmond, from the River Thames, from Walter Harrison's History of London

Royce, 1740

Ink drawing of a fantastic branch with ferny leaves, ruffled blossoms tied with ribbon bows, and twisting stems on paper.

Bough of a fantastic tree

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Reddish-brown print of two birds beside a nest with eggs, surrounded by trees, branches and grasses in a landscape.

Two Birds and a Bird’s Nest in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Watercolor design of a wall with a central fireplace flanked by two framed chinoiserie landscapes with pagodas and trees.

Design for a Chimneypiece, Wall with Chinoiserie Landscape, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Brown ink sketch of a reclining bearded river god holding an oar beside an urn and reeds.

Sketch of a River God

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1740

Two circular pen-and-ink drawings of winged victory figures with horse-drawn chariots on pale blue paper.

Two Roundels with Victories in Chariots; River Victory

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketches of a reclining river god and other figures with handwritten notes, on a pale sheet of paper.

Two Sketches of River Gods

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740

Pen and grey wash sketch of a reclining nude figure with flowers in her hair beneath a large tree in a landscape.

Sketch, Landscape

Antonio Baini, 1800

Pen and ink drawing of Thetis dipping infant Achilles into a river among draped women, reeds, and a decorated urn.

Thetis Plunges Achilles in River Styx

Felice Giani, 1790

Grey wash drawing of a shepherd boy playing a flute beside a seated shepherdess with sheep under trees.

Shepherd Boy and Shepherdess in a Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1760

Red chalk style plate of tree branches with leaves and flower sprigs, numbered 1 and 2, with French instructional caption bel

Plate 2 from Livre Ier, Principes du dessin dans le genre du Paysage

Flemish Gilles Demarteau, 1770

Two circular brown ink drawings on blue paper: a winged victory driving a horse above, and a winged victory crowning a river

A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning a River God, Reno; two roundels

Felice Giani, 1800

Engraved rococo fountain design with a seated river god, cherubs, cascading water, classical arch and obelisk among trees.

Design for Fountain with a River God

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Painting of a rustic landscape with a stone arch, shepherds, sheep, and a stream under a pale sky.

Rustic Landscape with Aqueduct and Figures

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Painting of a ruined stone arch over a river with rustic figures, a moored boat, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Landscape with Rustic Figures

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790