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Watercolor design of a decorative wall with a yellow panel showing a mythical creature, dancing figures, and dragon-shaped pi

Design for South Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Watercolor elevation of a wall with blue and pink paneled doors, gilded trim, and painted decorative panels.

Design for Window Wall Decoration, possibly for Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Pencil sketch of a baby lying on its back, head turned left, one hand raised to the mouth, legs bent with bare feet showing.

Study of a Baby

Louise Cox, 1900

Charcoal study of a nude male figure standing and holding a long staff, with soft shading on the torso and legs.

Nude Study of Man Walking

Kenyon Cox, 1880

Pencil sketch of a horse's head and harness on cream paper, with handwritten inscription below.

A Buggy Horse

Arnold William Brunner, 1890

Pencil sketch of a reclining man with closed eyes on a pillow, with handwritten colour notes across the page.

Funerary Portrait of James Cardinal Gibbons

Griffith Baily Coale, 1920

Red chalk drawing of a scrolled corner ornament with a partially nude male figure reclining within it.

Corner detail with partially nude male figure

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pen and watercolor drawing of veiled women and a crowd gathered around an ox cart beneath a large tree.

Lucius Albinius Rescues the Vestal Virgins

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, 1800

Red chalk drawing of an ornate Costaguti coat of arms with scrolls, an inscription, and a partial female figure and bird.

Costaguti coat of arms and part of a female figure

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Red chalk sketch of a standing figure holding fronds with a small putto below, on cream paper with a ruled border.

Figure with fronds and putto

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Watercolor wall elevation with yellow pilasters, blue panels, paneled double doors, candelabra and a classical statue in a ni

Wall Elevation

Frederick Crace, 1810

Pencil sketch of a sailboat seascape with a rowboat and rocks beside an interior view of a wooden staircase.

Sketch of Landscape and Staircase

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Red chalk sketch of a draped standing figure with one arm raised holding an object, drawn on cream paper within a border.

St. Francis Borgia (de Borja) from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Red chalk sketch of a running female figure with arms raised and drapery flowing behind her.

Running female figure

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Painted design for a gold rocaille cartouche with scrolling acanthus, floral garlands and a dark blue background.

Design for a Rocaille Ornament

Crace & Son, 1820

Pen and brown ink sketch of a rustic courtyard with a shed, a leaning tree, and a kneeling figure beside a glowing opening.

Set for a Christmas Crèche (Nativity)

Leonardo Scaglia, 1740

Red chalk sketch of a robed man in a twisting pose, one arm raised holding a whip, on a pale framed sheet.

Robed figure with whip

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pencil sketch in two panels showing a sailboat near a shore and a steep wooded bluff above calm water with distant hills.

Two sketches of Ridges

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Watercolor design of a chinoiserie window alcove with red swagged drapery, blue lattice panels, and a glazed central door.

Window Alcove for the Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Pen drawing of an arched window elevation with swagged drapery, looped curtains and fluted pilasters.

Window Wall Elevation

Frederick Crace, 1810

Watercolor interior of a kitchen with a grand stone fireplace, a seated woman in blue, a black cat, and shelves of jars.

Vitré

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Red chalk sketch of a winged male figure seated among architectural forms, framed by a double rule border.

Ceiling detail with winged male figure

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Two Sketches of Men

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Red chalk drawing of a standing robed saint with draped sleeves, hatched shading, and the number 18 at right.

St. Nicholas of Tolentino from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Red chalk sketch of two winged figures with crowns and flowing drapery, set within a double gold ruled border.

Two winged figures with crowns

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Watercolor design for three Gothic stained glass windows with a seated central figure, two angels, and heraldic arms.

Design for Stained Glass Window

Sir Walter Sterling of Drumpellier, 1850

Three figures

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Red chalk drawing of women washing near grazing cattle and a seated herder, with a dog and a farm building in the background.

Women doing washing near a cow-herd

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1800

Pale sketch of Murano's low waterfront skyline with church towers rising above a flat lagoon.

Study of seascape, Murano, Italy

William Stanley Haseltine, 1870

Watercolor elevation of a room wall with a central fireplace, yellow panel, green marbled pilasters and two paneled doors.

Wall Elevation with Fireplace and Two Doors

Frederick Crace, 1810