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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Loose painted seascape of breaking waves on a sandy beach beneath a dark, cloudy sky.

Sandy Beach with Breakers

Winslow Homer, 1869

Pen and watercolor design drawing of an ornate multi-armed lighting fixture with blue bands and floral details, dated 1810.

Design for a Lighting Fixture

Frederick Crace, 1810

Floral garland design of orange and yellow roses, white blossoms and green leaves on a squared grid, with printed credits.

Design for Berlin Wool Work

Nathaniel Currier, 1850

Red chalk study on squared grid showing nude figures, standing children with poles, and a seated woman, framed horizontally.

The Common Law, Study for Left Panel of "The Reign of Law," Frieze for Appellate Court, New York

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Gridded pattern sheet with a horizontal spray of pink, white and red roses and green leaves, numbered 908.

Design for Berlin Wool Work

Carl F. W. Wicht, 1850

Small landscape study: rocky outcrop with green shrubs on left, blue receding mountains and hazy sky on right.

Study of landscape, Drachenfels, Germany

William Stanley Haseltine, 1850

Pencil drawing of an urn-shaped vase with sinuous bronze mounts curling around its body and a leafy finial above.

Design for a Bronze Mounted Vase

Emile Gallé, 1880

Watercolor of a rocky shoreline with trees on a bank and a small sailboat on calm water under a cloudy sky.

Landscape of Nantucket Island

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Charcoal and white chalk study of a robed figure with one arm raised, head tilted upward, on tan paper.

Study for leader of the procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Charcoal and chalk sketch of a young girl in a ruffled dress holding a drinking glass, hair blowing in the wind.

Girl Holding a Drinking Glass

Winslow Homer, 1860

Watercolor elevation of a large mansion with steep slate roofs, dormers, arched windows and a balcony, set on a lawn.

Elevation of Mansion

Whitney Warren Jr, 1900

Ink and wash design study with an octagonal central panel of classical figures and a cupid, flanked by two round roundels.

Peace, Vaulted Panel, Sala d' Onore and the Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of the Tiber river with a domed church, villas, and trees along the banks, annotated with place names.

View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Claude's Villa, and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Architectural elevation drawing of a symmetrical library facade with columns, tall windows and a central entrance on tan pape

Study for the Fifth Avenue Elevation of the New York Public Library

Whitney Warren Jr, 1890

Pen and gray wash design for a vaulted ceiling panel with a central figural scene and two small putti medallions.

Abundance, Vaulted Panel, Sala d'onore, Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Two Sailing Ships

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Muted study of a painted ceiling section with framed panels, scrollwork cartouches, and a reclining figure.

Study for Section of Ceiling Ornament

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Ink and wash design with a seated allegorical woman, a putto and columns in a central panel, flanked by two round medallions

Vaulted Panel Design, Allegory of Justice, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, Italy

Felice Giani, 1810

Narrow oil sketch of a pale iceberg floating on dark sea water beneath a muted brown sky.

Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Horizontal strip of grey and black wash showing a lake shoreline, dark water and a distant tree line under pale sky.

Fragment of "Trout Fishing, Lake St. John, Quebec"

Winslow Homer, 1890

Vertical grey-wash design of a classical pilaster strip with scrolls, acanthus leaves, rosettes and grapes.

Design for the Decoration of a Pilaster Strip

C. C, 1810

Oil sketch of cumulus clouds lit in warm tones above a reddish ground and a distant blue hill at dusk.

Clouds over Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sepia drawing of four allegorical female statues in arched niches labeled Musica, Architettura, Pittura, Scoltura, with a sma

Four Statues in Niches: Music, Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture; Study of Bacchus and Mercury

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of two schooners and small dories on calm water, with soft reflections on a tan sheet.

Two Schooners and Dories

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil outline of a mountain ridgeline with a tall central peak on grey paper, labeled Katahdin from Katahdin Lake.

Cut-out of Mt. Katahdin from Katahdin Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Vertical watercolor pilaster design with scrolling foliage, floral garlands, and a female head in an oval medallion.

Painting Decoration of a Pilaster Strip

Giacomo Casa, 1850

Horizontal watercolor study of draped figures in a procession near classical columns, with a kneeling woman in the foreground

Study for a Procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Pencil sketch of the Baalbek temple ruins across a hazy landscape, with fallen stone blocks in the foreground and handwritten

Temples at Baalbek from the Roman Quarry, Lebanon, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Engraved panoramic view of a riverside town with houses, steep hills, mountains, trees and small figures in the foreground.

Panoramic View of the City of Ems, Germany

Johann Hürlimann, 1830

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor holding a long staff, wearing a black robe over a green and cream patterned costume.

Omezo Ichikawa in the role of Kajiwara Genta

Utagawa Toyokuni, 1810