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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil design elevation of an entrance hall wall with doorways, a central dragon medallion, dragon pilasters and a fireplace.

Design for the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman with an open book, flanked by two winged putti on clouds.

Theology, after Raphael Sansio, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican

Felice Giani, 1820

Wash drawing of a domed ceiling design with coffered panels, classical columns, putti and a central hexagonal opening.

Design for a Painted Oblong Ceiling

Andrea Pazzi, 1700

Ink and wash elevation of a salon wall with double doors, a central mantelpiece with clock, and a pale blue panel.

Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1770

Pen and ink drawing of ceiling and wall decoration studies with coffered panels, a statue in a niche, and an inscribed curved

Designs for Ceiling and Wall Decorations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design for an oval gilded frame with rosette band, rope moulding and a garland of leaves at the top.

Project for an Oval Frame

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of three nude female figures holding a garland, flanked by two winged cupids in a trapezoidal frame.

The Three Graces

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornate canopy cresting with plumes, swagged drapery and fringed hangings.

Cresting of a Canopy

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo overdoor with cherubs in a cartouche and a carved chimney piece beside a mirror panel.

Design for an Overdoor and Chimney

Nicolas Pineau, 1730

Pencil frieze of winged putti riding dolphins over waves, with a bearded sea god's face at the right.

Frieze with Dolphins and Putto

Felice Giani, 1820

Brown ink and wash drawing of a Gothic interior with pointed arches, a rose window, columns and a ribbed vault.

Interior of a Gothic room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

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 ink drawing of a foreshortened painted ceiling with columns, cherubs, and a central sky scene by Cesare Sermei.

Project for a Painted Ceiling

Cesare Sermei, 1650

Brown ink and wash design sketch of vaulted ceiling lunettes with seated figures, medallions, and ornamental panels.

Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Grey wash drawing of a classical interior with coffered vault, Corinthian columns, garland-bearing figures and a bust in an a

Project for a painted ceiling with an antique bust in an archway

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1800

Graphite drawing of three winged putti with trumpets and a wreath inside a stepped arched frame, with grid lines.

Three Putti with Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1800

Four brown ink and wash sketches of domed bedroom alcoves with draped curtains and columns on a sheet of paper.

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketch of an ornate fireplace with a carved mantelpiece and surrounding wall in a room interior.

Fireplace

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and brown wash design for a frame with an empty oval cartouche labeled Otway, above a pedestal with a lyre and a head.

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Thomas Otway

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730

Pen and brown wash design sketch of a bedroom interior with arched ceiling, pilasters, and ornamental panel details.

Design for Decorations for a Bedroom

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash architectural design of a doorway with pediment, urn and reclining dogs, with two figures standing in the openin

Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, 1750

Watercolor study of an ornate palace wall with gilded stucco, painted panels of flowers and landscapes, and a decorated door.

Section of a wall showing groups of painted panels, Oval Chamber, Salon Louis XIV, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Brown ink and wash elevation of a decorated room wall with a doorway, mirror, classical statues and relief panels.

Elevation of a Drawing Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate fireplace with a carved bust in a niche, a standing figure, and an oval floor plan b

Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, 1750

Symmetrical pen and wash design for a plaster ceiling with central rosette, swags, ribbons and acanthus scrolls.

Design for a Plaster Ceiling

George Richardson, 1810

Pen and brown wash drawing of six alcove elevations with draped curtains, columns, pediments and putti.

Six Designs for Alcove Elevations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining couple with a cupid in a garden, framed in an octagon with pencil grid numbers.

Ceiling Design with Rinaldo and Armida, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Vertical decorative wall border with gilded cartouches, crowned monograms, and scrolling foliage in blue and gold.

Detail: Wall Decoration, Palace of Fontainebleau

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Brown wash drawing of a decorated living room wall elevation with two doorways, garlands, putti and oval medallions.

Elevation of a Living Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil design for a ceiling with a central chariot scene, winged figures, trumpets and ornamental scrolls in a grid layout.

Ceiling Decoration, Victory in a Chariot, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810