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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pen and ink drawing of Apollo with a lyre and a winged Cupid in a classical riverside landscape with ancient buildings.

Apollo with lyre and Love

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

Study for Hercules and Antaeus

Annibale Carracci

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

Pen and ink sketch sheet with multiple scenes: a knight fighting a dragon, a battle, and classical figures.

St.George and the Dragon by Raphael; Biblical Scene; Disposition by Caravaggio; Ero e Leandro; Love by Lambert Sustri…

Brown ink and wash drawing of two muscular men wrestling, one lifting the other, with swirling drapery and a Latin inscriptio

Hercules and Antaeus

Annibale Carracci

Red chalk drawing of a winged cupid figure with curly hair and one arm raised, over a faint blue grid on tan paper.

Cupid

Oval brown ink wash drawing of Ulysses and companions escaping in a boat from the Cyclops's cave with sheep.

Ulysses Escapes the Cyclops’s Cave and Embarks with a Companion

Red chalk drawing of a nude winged cupid seen from behind, one arm extended, on tan paper.

Cupid from Amor Arguing with Zeus, After Raphael

Pen and brown wash drawing of four horizontal friezes showing crowded classical figures in Bacchic processions and sacrifices

Birth of Bacchus; triumph of Bacchus and Arianna; Triumph of Silos

Brown ink drawing of two octagonal panels: a winged figure handing a lyre to a seated youth, and women kneeling before a stat

Winged Victory Gives Apollo Lyre; Statue of Minerva

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

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

Six Antique Gods and Goddesses

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

Four Antique Goddesses

Pen and brown ink drawing in three panels showing mythological figures, clouds, draped groups and a sculptural relief.

Mythological or Biblical Scene; Juno and Jove Enthroned with Three Fates; Three Graces with Apollo and Minerva; Sculp…