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Pencil sketch of a long-necked stringed instrument with notes about pine wood and a small study of birds.

Musical instrument

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pencil sketch of a leafy group of trees with slender trunks rising from rocky ground, handwritten date at right.

A Group of Trees, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical underworld scene with a enthroned figure, robed attendants, and columns.

Hades; Persephone in the Underworld (Offering to Proserpine)

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a rocky coast with boulders, a flat shoreline, three small figures, and distant buildings under a pale sky.

Study for "Rocky Coast and Gulls"

Winslow Homer, 1860

Ink and pencil study sheet with scrolled cartouche, medallion, crossed staffs and leafy ornaments on cream paper.

Studies of Masts and Ornaments

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Black and white chalk drawing on blue paper of two winged putti in dynamic poses, with a sketched urn.

Sketches of Two Winged Putti and an Urn

Taddeo Zuccaro, 1550

Watercolor design with pink roses, purple pansies, topiary, cypress trees and a fountain in decorative borders.

Design for Gile, pattern 1757 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf

Mademoiselle Favel, 1780

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin handing the infant Christ to a kneeling woman, with angels and putti among clouds.

Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, St. Caterina Vigri Receives the Babe…

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1690

Female Nude Study for "A Magdalen"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Graphite and chalk portrait of a woman with side-parted hair and a white collar, on tan paper.

Portrait of Sarah E. Richards

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Ink and wash floor plan showing an octagonal room and a rectangular room with ornamental panels and a handwritten Italian ins

Centerpiece for the Ambassador of the Maltese Order

Giuseppe Barberi, 1760

Charcoal sketch of a group of fishermen in oilskin hats beside a rocky wall, with a pale sea horizon to the right.

Fishermen in Oilskins, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor study of two copper gutters with ornamental brackets, one with a rosette and one with a fleur-like finial, shown i

Two Copper Gutters, from a 16th-Century Castle, Blois, France

Whitney Warren Jr, 1880

Watercolor study of a brown and white cow's head with curved horns against a loose blue sky.

Head of a Cow, Étretat

Samuel Colman, 1870

Painting of a large grey iceberg floating in green water under a pale sky, with a distant brown shoreline on both sides.

Gray Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and brown wash drawing of an eagle with spread wings standing on a bicorne hat, with the letter N below.

Project: Eagle displayed, with inverted wings, standing upon a French bicorne hat

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of workers operating silk reeling frames in a workshop interior.

The Reeling of Silk

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of four ornate chalices, one supported by a standing male figure holding the bowl overhead.

Four chalices

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Ink and brown wash drawing of tiered pedestals with relief panels, a mask ornament, and a lion on a plinth.

Bases of pilaster stripe

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Charcoal and chalk sketch of a seated woman in a headscarf peeling a potato, turned to the left, on tan paper.

Study of Woman Peeling Potatoes

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of a girl seated on a porch step beside a column, glancing back over her shoulder at the viewer.

Girl Seated on a Porch Step

Winslow Homer, 1870

Studies of Peace for "Justice and Peace"

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Oil sketch of blue icebergs under an orange dusk sky above dark water, painted by Frederic Edwin Church in 1850.

Iceberg at Midnight, Labrador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor and ink sketch of a brown horse pulling a pale blue brougham carriage with a driver in a top hat.

The Blue Brougham

Constantin Guys, 1850

Pastel and charcoal decorative design of a female figure with cherubs in an oval medallion, framed by wings and lilies.

Study for "The Crescent Moon"

Walter Shirlaw, 1900

Tethered Donkey and a Style of Fence, South America

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of drooping bromeliad blossoms on branching stems, with handwritten Jamaica inscription on pale paper.

Blossoms of the Bromelia Pinguin, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a young man in a cap leaning against ship rigging on a deck, drawn in loose graphite lines.

Young Man Leaning Against Sailboat Rigging

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a plantain plant with broad leaves, a tree study, and a rocky shrub, with handwritten colour notes.

Botanical Sketches, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a peacock with a long tail in a garden with trees and shrubs.

Peacock in a Garden

Walter Shirlaw, 1880