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Pencil sketches of a goat's head on pale paper, with horns, ears and eyes drawn in loose strokes.

Goat

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Sepia ink and wash drawing of a columned bed alcove with draped curtains and a coffered ceiling in perspective.

Design for a Bed Alcove, Perspective

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of rococo ceiling ornament with scrolls, garlands, putti and architectural moldings on a pale sheet.

Project for a Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750

Red and black chalk drawing of a fantastic goblet with a shell bowl, reclining nude figure, cherub, and merman support.

Design for a Fantastic Goblet

Johannes Lutma, 1630

Graphite drawing of a curly-haired man working at a table by lamplight, shown in soft grey shading.

An Artist Drawing by Lamplight

Felice Giani, 1800

Charcoal sketch of a young peasant woman in a headscarf, head bowed to one side, with a signature at lower left.

Portrait of a Peasant Girl

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Portrait of Sophie Huntington

Seth Wells Cheney, 1840

Pencil sketch sheet of llamas in grazing and standing poses, with a handwritten note near Chimborazo at upper right.

Llamas near Chimborazo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a low dome with ribbed panels and a classical frieze of rosettes and palmettes above a cornice.

Decoration for low dome of a room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of a rococo garden with a central fountain, scrolled architecture, arches and draped female figures.

Design for an Ornamental Decoration

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Pen and brown wash drawing of architectural designs, a frieze of figures, a niche with statues, an arcade, and a seated woman

Design after 13th Century Arcade, Bologna; Verso, Anatomical Study

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a soldier in a long coat and cap aiming a rifle to the left on pale paper.

Soldier Taking Aim

Winslow Homer, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of a draped classical female figure with a veiled head and outstretched arm.

Antique Statue of a Priestess

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil study of a reclining nude woman holding a raised torch, unfinished, on pale paper.

Study for "Liberty," "The Reign of the Law," Appellate Division Court House, New York, NY

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of mounted soldiers riding through a flag-decorated city street, with a Willkommen banner overhead.

Illustration Showing the Triumphal Return of the German Army After the German-French War

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

Drawing of twelve circular medallions in brown ink and wash showing Hercules fighting animals and monsters, with pencil inscr

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil sketches on blue-grey paper of trees, vine stems, and foliage with handwritten notes about birds and plants.

Sketches from the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a mule lying on the ground with its head raised, mounted in a grey album page.

Mule Lying on the Ground

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of a bearded crowned king gesturing to two women, one in a headscarf, with a hand reaching in from the upper le

Sketches of a King and Two Women

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a shawl, with the handwritten name Alice Little below on a cream sheet.

Alice Little

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil and white chalk sketch of the Holy Family with the Virgin, Christ child, young John the Baptist, angels and a lamb.

The Holy Family

Mariano Rossi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a seated man in spectacles and overcoat, with handwritten fabric notes in the margins.

James Lenox Seated

Daniel Huntington, 1870

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 watercolor sketch of two winged figures blowing trumpets flanking a central ornamental staff on a diamond-shaped shee

Fame with Trumpet, Sala di Recezione, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged youth riding a rearing ram within a semicircular lunette composition.

Ares, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo four-branch candelabrum supported by two cherubs on an ornate base.

Design for a Metal Candelabrum of Four Branches, for Louis XV's Service

Thomas Germain, 1720

Pencil sketch of a man in a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a pitchfork in a field beside a haystack.

Haymaking

Winslow Homer, 1860

Watercolor design for a neoclassical table clock with a cherub, reclining Father Time, draped woman and lion mask on pedestal

Design for a Table Clock

Pietro Belli, 1800

Pencil sketch on paper of a boy in a hat, a cow's rear, cow legs with hooves, and a small tree.

Sketches of Theodore Cole, Cow Legs, and a Tree, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pen and ink sketch of hanging altar lamps, a censer, and an incense boat with ornamental chains and garlands.

Altar Lamps, Censers, Incense Boat

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800