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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Grey wash drawing of an ornate bedstead in an arched hall with robed figures gesturing, inside a rococo frame.

Study for The Iron Bedstead of King Og, Plate 324, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, 1720

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a long overcoat standing with one arm resting on a support, by Daniel Huntington.

President Chester A. Arthur, Standing

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pen and grey wash sheet of Roman standards, eagle finials, weapons, and classical ornaments arranged in rows.

Designs for Roman Arms and Other Classical Motifs

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1830

Pen and brown ink drawing of a woman in a headscarf raising a hammer beside a reclining figure and a tent.

Jael and Sisera

Luca Giordano, 1700

Painting of a large tree with vines and roots on rocky ground, with green hills and misty mountains behind it.

Tree with Vines, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Narrow vertical ink and wash drawing of a sinuous vine with leaves and buds, a design for a pillar ornament.

Pillar strip

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of two draped figures beside a lattice fence, with a wooded landscape and distant town behind.

Design for Susanna and the Elders

Luca Giordano, 1660

Graphite and white chalk drawing of a tall palm tree with drooping fronds on a brown paper ground.

Abaye Palm, Mt. Salus, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of two costumed female figures with suit symbols and handwritten color notes on cream paper.

Playing cards

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Watercolor design drawing of a tripod stand with a bowl, lion masks, paw feet and a fluted central column on a plinth.

Design for a Bowl

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pencil sketch of a man on horseback on a small cream sheet mounted in a grey album with red spine.

Man on Horseback

Winslow Homer, 1860

Small oil sketch of a white iceberg in choppy grey-blue sea under a hazy pale sky.

Iceberg off Torbay, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and brown ink drawing in an oval of gods feasting at a table with putti and attendants bearing garlands and vessels.

Banquet of the Gods, variant for the Sala di Pranza, Palazzo Guarini, Forli

Felice Giani, 1810

Four pencil and pastel studies of circular ornaments filled with stylized flowers, leaves and vines on a tan sheet.

Flower Studies (Four Designs for Circular Ornaments)

Samuel Colman, 1880

Charcoal and chalk study of two fishermen hauling a net of herring from a rowboat, with sailboats in the distance.

Study for "The Herring Net"

Winslow Homer, 1880

Narrow pen and brown wash drawing of a pillar with leafy foliage, a lion mask vase, and two candle brackets.

Pillar strip with a candle bracket

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and ink drawing of a nude male figure seen from behind with arms raised, with hatched modeling of the musculature.

Standing Man with Raised Arms

called Micco Spadaro Domenico Gargiulo, 1650

Engraved design for an oblong plaster ceiling with garland oval, fan corners, rosettes and a repeating decorative border.

Design for an Oblong Plaster Ceiling

George Richardson, 1780

Pen and brown wash sheet with twenty-four studies of winged putti carrying baskets, instruments and garlands.

Twenty-Four Putti, Decoration for the Dinning Room, Villa Aldini, Montmorency, France

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of three figures, two women in hats and a mustached man, seated before faint distant hills.

Three Figures

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and wash design sheet with hexagonal panels of Psyche scenes, oval portrait medallions, and handwritten Italian labels.

Decoration for the Ceiling of a Bedroom in Villa Aldini, Montmorency

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash sketch of the Baptism of Christ with a central standing figure, flanking figures, and a dove in clouds.

Baptism of Christ

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1610

Graphite pencil study of a female figure in a head wrap with a bare arm and hand resting in the foreground.

Study of Mercy for "Christiana and Her Family Passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil sketch of a seated soldier on a box beside a standing figure, with faint tents in the background.

Soldier Sitting on a Box

Winslow Homer, 1860

Café

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch sheet showing a resting camel, a walled ruin, a horse, a spear, and a mountain slope with handwritten notes.

Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Studies of Peace for "Justice and Peace"

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pen and ink design for a mace with putti holding an oval medallion above a fluted shaft and garlands.

Project for a Mace

Vincenzo Belli, 1840

Pencil sketch of a bearded man beside a faint child figure, with an open book in the foreground.

Sketches for "Lesson of Charity" and portrait of Peter Richards, Jr.

Daniel Huntington, 1840

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