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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved bust portrait of a bespectacled man with curly hair, wearing a dark jacket and frilled cravat.

Portrait of James Hogg

William Nicholson

Vertical decorative wall design with classical statues, fruit garland on blue, grotesques, putti and scrollwork panels.

Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Ottaviani

Pen and ink design drawing of a candelabra with a triangular plan and figures supporting the stem beside a column.

Design for a Candelabra

Carlo Marchionni

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair, white cravat and dark coat, turned to the left against hatched background.

Portrait of Robert Burns

William Nicholson

Tall decorative wall panel design with grotesque motifs, cherubs, fruit garlands, medallions, and vine ornament on colored gr

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Giovanni Ottaviani

Pen and ink design sketch of a chandelier, garlands, and two consoles with pedestal in a neoclassical interior.

Project for Two Consoles

Charcoal drawing of two nude and partly draped putti, one pointing and one lifting a billowing cloth overhead.

Two Putti

Francesco Bartolozzi

Hand-colored print of an ornamental wall decoration with scrolls, medallions, fruit garlands, and marble-effect panels.

Wall Decoration, Plate from "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Ottaviani

Watercolor arabesque of scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers and grapes with several rodents among the foliage on a pale ground

Foliate Arabesque with Rodents

Henri Sallembier

Graphite study of two muscular nude men wrestling, one lifting the other above rocky ground.

Study for Hercules and Antaeus

Annibale Carracci

Red chalk study on blue-grey paper of a robed figure with raised arm, plus hands holding a lantern and a box.

Portrait of a Cardinal

Giuseppe Passeri

Ink and wash drawing with two scenes: a robed man addressing a crowd, and a seated woman speaking with a standing man in a cl

Design for Palazzo Conti

Studies for a religious representation

Filippo Marchionni

Red chalk study on blue paper of a kneeling draped figure with several sketched heads and hands around it.

Studies for a Kneeling Monk

Giuseppe Passeri

Chalk drawing on blue paper of a young man leaning back and pulling a rope, with a hand study at lower right.

Young Man Pulling a Rope

Pen and brown ink drawing of two seated women in an oval, one with scales of justice and one with an olive branch.

Justice and Peace

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate chandelier with a coiled serpent around its central stem and hanging bead garlands.

Chandelier

Giuseppe Barberi

Red ink drawing of architectural elevations with a door, overdoor, classical moldings, scrollwork, and two putti.

Elevations of a Door, Door Frames, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Pen and brown ink sketch of kneeling women and children pleading before armored Roman soldiers beside a tent and standards.

Coriolanus Agrees to Lift the Siege of Rome

Red chalk and white highlight study on blue paper of a draped figure with outstretched arms and detailed drapery folds.

Studies for the Entombment of Christ

Giuseppe Passeri

Grey wash drawing of a female nude seen from behind beside a pedestal, sketched after classical sculpture.

Sketch of Classical Sculpture of the Venus Pudica Type

Benozzo Gozzoli

Ink and wash sketch of three classical scenes with seated and standing figures, with handwritten Italian captions.

Cornelia, Mother of Gracchi; Socrates, Alcibiades and Aspasia; Zeus and the Maidens of Crotone

Red chalk drawing of a winged angel or putto in flight, head turned upward, with sketched arms on a cream sheet.

A Seated Angel

Red chalk drawing of a reclining male nude with arm raised behind his head, resting on draped cloth, on worn paper.

Slave from Hero and Leander in the Galleria Farnese, after Annibale Carraci

Annibale Carracci

Pen and ink sketch of six small classical gods and goddesses stacked vertically, each beside an altar or attribute.

Six Antique Gods and Goddesses

Bust of a Young Girl

François Boucher

Pen and brown wash sketch of a kneeling bishop with mitre and crozier, hands clasped in prayer.

A Kneeling Bishop

Belisario Corenzio

Red chalk drawing of two bearded men in draped robes, one raising his arm and pointing upward.

Two Apostles

Pen and ink sketch of four stacked vignettes showing draped classical goddesses, altars, and mythological figures on a pale s

Four Antique Goddesses

Pencil study of a man in a long cloak bowing low, holding his hat in one hand and his other hand on his chest.

Study of a Bowing Man (Christopher Columbus)

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta