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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Brown ink and wash drawing of a frieze with mounted warriors, rearing horses, shields and spears in combat.

Battle Scene

Giulio Romano, 1540

Pencil sketch of clouds and distant hills with handwritten colour notes such as splendid green blue and luminous.

Sunset over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a seated woman in a hat and long dress, drawn in loose quick lines on cream paper.

Woman

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pencil sketch of a valley with a distant town, rolling hills and layered mountains beneath an open sky.

View of Cartago, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of the American Falls at Niagara, showing a cliff edge with falling water and a small structure on the bank.

The American Falls, Niagara River, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Red chalk study of a reclining female nude seen from behind, with white chalk highlights on toned paper.

Study for Reclining Nude

François Boucher, 1740

Pencil sketches on tan paper showing a walled hilltop town with a tower, architectural fragments, a cypress, and handwritten

Mixed Sketches, Turkey

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink design sheet with cherubs, a lion, an oval shield, caryatids and a SEMPER banner, for stained glass.

Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy

Wouter Crabeth I, 1580

Horizontal border design with repeated festoons, tulip blooms and scrolling foliage in pale tones on a rust-brown ground.

Design no. 12 for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pen and wash design sheet showing labeled neoclassical tableware including tureens, cruets, salt cellars, and cutlery with Gr

Project for a Set of Tableware

Pietro Belli, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical domed pavilion with columns, lattice panels, and a flower-crowned head finial.

Centerpiece

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil drawing of an eagle with spread wings standing in front of an oak leaf wreath with ribbon swags below.

Oak Leaf Wreath with Eagle

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1830

Brown ink wash stage design of a domed theatre with a winged figure, classical columns, and a crowd around a smoking altar.

Stage Design: Curtain, The Workshop of Apollo

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bed alcove with draped curtains and a neoclassical chimney mantel with an urn.

Bed alcove and chimney mantel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Watercolor of a steep mountain gorge with cascading white waterfalls and sunlit cliffs beneath a blue sky.

Toltec Gorge and Eva Cliff from the West, Colorado

Thomas Moran, 1890

A Sailing Ship

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Pen and grey wash drawing of a trophy arrangement with a cross, chalice, trumpets, shield, laurel and flowering branches.

Trophy with Symbols of the Virtues

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1830

Pen and wash design drawing of a rococo wall panel and fireplace with a pastoral scene framed by scrolling ornament.

Design for a Wall Panel with Fireplace

Johann August Nahl the Elder, 1740

Brown ink drawing of two horizontal friezes showing winged putti playing among vases, garlands and animals.

Design for Two Friezes with Putti

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of ceiling designs with rosettes, coffered panels, lattice patterns and pointed arches.

Designs for Ceiling Decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of an army wagon with mules on a faded sheet mounted in a grey album page.

Army Wagon with Mules

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil and white-heightened sketch of a rock face with snowy alpine peaks and a valley beyond.

Rockface near Belalp, Switzerland

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and ink sketch of nude Hercules with club and lion skin beside a serpent in a garden, with Italian caption below.

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of two classical sarcophagus designs, one with a relief of draped figures, the other with a mask a

Two Designs for Sarcophagi

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Pencil study of two bird wings with detailed feather shading on cream paper, with faint guidelines.

Study for "Contemplative Spirit of the East," Minnesota State Capitol, St. Paul, MN

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Ink and wash drawing of Alexander and the family of Darius in a tent, with armored men, kneeling women and a child.

Ceiling Design, Alexander and the Family of Darius, the Clemency of Alexander, Sala di Alessandro, Palazzo Naldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Oil sketch of a standing Bedouin man in dark robe and yellow headwrap, holding a long rifle against a brown background.

Standing Bedouin Figure

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and brown ink studies of ornate candlesticks and candelabra with foliage and putti, with handwritten notes at top.

Candlesticks, Probably for the Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Loose oil sketch of white clouds over a dark forested valley with distant hills and small evergreens in the foreground.

Clouds over the Hudson Valley, from the Catskill Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Loose pencil sketch of a standing figure with a head covering on a pale sheet of paper.

Figure

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of three stacked trapezoid decorative panels with mythological figures, putti, centaurs and flowers.

Decorative Project: Three Trapezoids with Flora and Zefiro

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil study of a woman's left arm and hand reaching toward a coin, with a separate sketch of her right hand above.

Studies of the Left Arm and Right Hand of a Woman

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of the Tiber river with a domed church, villas, and trees along the banks, annotated with place names.

View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Claude's Villa, and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil study of a swan with spread wing and curved neck beside a column and scrollwork, on pale paper.

Study for "The Sources of Wealth," Union Trust Company Building, Cleveland, OH

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated woman in drapery with a fruit basket, beside a sketched ornamental panel.

"The Foliage of Berenice:" from Callimachus

Loose pencil sketch of a bullfight showing a matador in a wide hat, a charging bull, and a dark cape.

Bullfight, Spain

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Faint pencil sketch of a dog seen from behind on a cream sheet, with a date inscribed in the upper right corner.

Dog, Shown from Behind

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil and watercolor sketch of gnarled cypress tree trunks in a grove, with a small building at the right edge.

Cypress Trees of Chapultepec, Mexico

Samuel Colman, 1890

Brown wash drawing of an arched stone doorway with an inscription DOMVS, dimension lines, and handwritten notes beside it.

Doorway for a town mansion

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a snow-capped mountain and shadowed slopes on tan paper.

Mountain Landscape, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and grey wash drawing of a bishop saint gazing up at a Christ child on clouds, with a mitre and open book below.

Bishop Saint Adoring Christ Child

Corrado Giaquinto, 1710

Pen and wash drawing of a baroque architectural title page with a saint slaying a dragon and skeleton figures in niches.

Title Page, Part 9, from an Album of Drawings belonging to Don Gaspero Méndez de Haro y Guzman

Gasparo Mendez de Haro y Guzman, 1800

Red chalk and grey wash drawing of several architectural window cases and pediments with scrolled and shell ornaments.

Window Cases with Alternate Suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Graphite sketch of a seated nude woman with one arm raised to her head and legs crossed, on aged paper.

Study of a female figure

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a mountain ridge over layered foothills, with handwritten color notes and the label Toluca, Feb 23, 92.

Nevado de Toluca, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Ink and grey wash drawing of a Gothic chapel interior with pointed arches, stone columns, timber roof and carved altar steps.

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Chapel

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1830

Pencil sketch of rolling hills, a plain, and distant mountains with handwritten colour notes on tinted paper.

View Across the Hills and Plains of Arabah, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor design of a radiant monstrance with angels, clouds, and two kneeling angels supporting a draped cloth below.

Project for a Ostensory

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pencil sketch of craggy mountain ridges above a sloping foreground, with the handwritten label Königsee at lower right.

Mountains over the Königssee, Germany

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of Ceres enthroned under a drape with attendants, plus sketches of figures and ornament on the right.

The Seasons Bring Gifts to Ceres and Triptolemus

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil design sketch of a teapot and two covered sugar bowls with scroll handles on tan paper.

Drawing - George E Germer, 1910

George E Germer, 1910

Pen and ink sketches of ornamental rococo tablet frames with scrolls, urns, shells and moldings on pale paper.

Six Sketches for Tablet Frames

Carlo Marchionni, 1740

Oil sketch of a glowing mountain range at sunset above a grassy meadow with grazing animals and dark trees.

Alpine Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of an arched doorway in a building with shadowed walls and loose foliage above, dated 1880.

Doorway

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Graphite and white chalk sketch of a waterfall with cascading water, mist, and rocks on a tan paper ground.

Under Horseshoe Falls, Niagara River, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Graphite drawing on grey paper of a pair of male legs beside a pedestal, with a muscular arm and clenched fist below.

Two Partial Anatomical Studies

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Watercolor design of a gilded neoclassical wall with blue drapery, a chandelier and painted allegorical roundels.

Design for the Wall Decoration for Marie-Antoinette's Apartment at Fontainebleau Palace

Jean-Siméon Rousseau, 1770

Pencil sketch of mountains above a village with houses, trees, and a church tower.

Orizaba, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical title page with two draped women framing an oval portrait medallion.

Title page of a book

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pencil sketch of Tequendama Falls, a waterfall between rocky cliffs and wooded slopes, drawn on grey paper.

Tequendama Falls near Bogata, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate lip-spout pitcher with scrolling handle and a figural relief panel on its body.

Lip-spout pitcher

Auguste Bergeret, 1700

Pencil drawing of a winged woman seated on draped cloth, looking upward while writing on a tablet with a stylus.

Mnemosyne, Mother of the Muses

Felice Giani, 1810

Graphite study sheet with a violin, several hands gripping an instrument and bow, a scroll detail, and a shoe.

Study of Hands of a Violin Player

Walter Shirlaw, 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of two octagonal allegorical scenes with seated women, cornucopia, scales, and winged putti.

Two Octagons: Vigilance, Beneficence

Felice Giani, 1810