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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Design drawing of an octagonal ceiling with blue vault, pink ornamental borders and a central scene of Mars and Venus.

Design for a Painted Octagonal Panel

Marco Capizucchi, 1820

Pencil sketch of a standing barefoot boy in a buttoned jacket with his hands in his pockets, on a cream mount.

A Standing Boy

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Brown ink sketch of colonnaded arcades, church interiors, a tomb scene and ornamental candelabra designs.

Sketchbook Page: Atrium, San Pietro, Bologna and Detail from San Pietro; Detail from S. Michele in Bosco; Verso, Geom…

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of palm trees, a leafy tree, hills and a reclining figure, with handwritten colour notes on grey paper.

Mixed Sketches, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of a river landscape with a distant island, palms, reeds and ferns in the foreground.

Views along the Rio Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil drawing of a standing female nude with hair pinned up, turning her head toward the viewer, hands clasped low.

Standing Female Nude

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Sketch of a Bull's Head, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Three-panel pen and ink drawing with brown wash showing mythological scenes of a forge, Venus with cupids, and a festive gath

Winter, the Forge of the Vulcan, Spring, the Bath of Venus, Summer Feasts of Bacchus and Ceres

Felice Giani, 1790

Pencil sketch of a man with a full mustache in a frock coat, surrounded by handwritten color notes on tan paper.

President Chester Alan Arthur, Study of Head

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of two women with a basket and a bearded man in a plumed hat, with draped classical garments.

Two Women with a Basket

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown wash drawing of an inkstand design with two seated women flanking a central vessel on an ornate base.

Design for an Inkstand

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1800

Pencil study of a bowed, hooded seated figure with stylized flowing drapery, labeled as a stained glass design study.

Study for "Memory," Pittsburgh, PA

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Watercolor design for an andiron with gilded swans, laurel wreath, green panel, ewer and flaming urn.

Design for an Andiron

Tournai Lefebvre Manufactory, 1800

Graphite sketches on tan paper of several nude young children in different standing and crouching poses.

Studies of Putti

James Wells Champney, 1880

Grey wash drawing of a neoclassical mantelpiece with an eagle crest, garlands, and a blank overmantel mirror panel.

The elevation of a mantelpiece

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of Apollo and Marsyas in a hexagonal frame, with a lyre beside them and a reclining satyr figure.

Apollo flays Marsyas

Felice Giani, 1790

Two ornate candelabra designs in gold and silver tones with plan views and a scale bar, by Francesco Santini.

Two Designs for Candelabra

Francesco Santini, 1830

Grey wash drawing of an empty rococo cartouche decorated with shells, a trident, a ship mast, reeds and a swan.

Copy of an escutcheon in one of the fetes publications

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1730

Pen and ink sketches of three heraldic crests with tiaras and crossed keys beside flagpole and banner studies.

Three sketches for a standard of Pope Benedict XIV

Carlo Marchionni, 1740

Drawing with red chalk studies of men in wide-brimmed hats and cloaks, seated and standing, with a small pen sketch above.

Figural Studies of Five Men

called Micco Spadaro Domenico Gargiulo, 1650

Pen and brown wash drawing of a painter's studio with nude women posing around an easel and a seated artist at work.

Zeuxis painting Helen

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Pen and brown wash drawing of three canopied bed alcove elevations with swagged drapery and a plan view.

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves: Three Elevations and One Plan

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and brown ink sketch of kneeling women and children pleading before armored Roman soldiers beside a tent and standards.

Coriolanus Agrees to Lift the Siege of Rome

Dog and lion

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Bust of a Model, Rome

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Pencil sketch of clouds and distant hills with handwritten colour notes and the date July 28, 1863 at top right.

Twilight over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of two haloed saints in draped robes, one holding a palm frond, beside an inscribed pedestal.

Two Martyrs

Giovanni Gerolama Boniforte, 1640

Brown ink and wash drawing of four oval allegorical figures representing Fortitude, Justice, Prudence and Temperance.

Four Ovals: Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of two ornamental knobs with acanthus leaves and carved male faces beneath finials.

Two knobs

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash sketch of a seated man, a crouching figure, a horse, and a standing figure on one sheet.

Five Men

called Micco Spadaro Domenico Gargiulo, 1640