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Pencil sketch of a lakeside town with spired towers, a wooden jetty, a small boat, and trees under hills.

View of Lucerne

Arnold William Brunner, 1870

Red chalk drawing of a winged figure and a putto supporting an escutcheon, within a double-ruled border.

Winged figure and putto supporting escutcheon

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pencil sketch of large trees arching over a grassy meadow path with distant figures, by William Trost Richards, 1860.

Landscape, Darmstadt

William Trost Richards, 1860

Watercolor sketches of ornamental wall patterns with fleur-de-lis and scrolls in terracotta, grey and blue tones.

Sketches of Wall Patterns - Blois

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil drawing of a woman in a white dress standing on a wooden staircase, hand on the banister, cloak over her arm.

As She Saw Marcia Her Face Lit Up

Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1910

Red chalk drawing of a winged figure with outstretched wings and flowing drapery, framed by a double ruled border.

Kneeling winged figure holding a crown

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pencil sketch of a large paneled room with a fireplace, a seated reader, and a side table with a flower vase.

Sketch of Large Room

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Graphite study of a seated nude figure with winged helmet and rod, over a squared grid, on cream paper.

Nude Study for "The Active Life," Lunette in the Administration Building, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Watercolor design of a wall with paneled doors, columns, balcony railings and a sky backdrop.

Wall Decoration and Door with Columns, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Pencil sketch of stone houses with steep roofs, chimneys and turrets, with shrubs in front, on tan paper.

Sketch of Beaulieu

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Grey wash drawing of a sculptor's studio with a plaster statue, small figurines on shelves, and several men at work.

A Sculptor's Studio

Thure de Thulstrup, 1890

Pen and ink architectural drawing of an altar elevation with fluted columns, labelled marble panels, and a laurel roundel.

Altar mensa

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor of a rocky shoreline with trees on a bank and a small sailboat on calm water under a cloudy sky.

Landscape of Nantucket Island

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil and white chalk drawing of an old clapboard house with a porch, bench, and trees on grey paper.

The Old Hopkinson House, Bordentown, NJ

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1880

Oil study of two tree trunks on a forest floor, one pale and lichen-spotted, with a hazy green hillside behind.

Tree Trunk, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Graphite sketch of a mountain road with trees, a rocky cliff, a distant village and a walking figure.

Mountain Pass and Village

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Brown wash drawing of neoclassical mantelpiece designs with caryatid, sphinx, urn, garlands and carved medallions.

Designs for a Mantelpiece

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil drawing of the Virgin seated with a halo, holding the standing infant Christ on her lap, with shaded drapery.

The Virgin with the Child

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Pencil sketch of several architectural column base and molding profiles with hatched shading on cream paper.

Abbey Church of St. Leu d’Esserent. (Oise)

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of conifers along a wooded shoreline with a tall pine at right and handwritten date in lower right.

Wooded Shoreline, Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Brown wash drawing of a symmetrical interior wall with three arches, Corinthian columns, statues and relief panels.

Design for Salon Entrance Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and pencil sketch of two dancing women in loose gestural poses, with a small scene sketched at the right edge.

Study for a dancing woman, “Moods to Music,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of gnarled tree roots and branches spreading across pale paper, with a handwritten date in the upper right corn

Tree Roots, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pen and brown wash elevation drawing of a church facade with columns, pediment, cross, statues and an arched window.

Elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Brown ink drawing of two putti among acanthus scrolls and a large flower within a ruled border, by Francesco Bedeschini.

One of a set of projects for a title page and the decoration of a horizontal panel

Francesco Bedeschini, 1690

Pencil sketch of a rocky cliff at left and a jagged mountain ridge with rolling hills at right, on pale paper.

Mountain Sketches

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Two circular watercolor vignettes of young women in period dress, one reading a letter, one holding a flower, on a pale sheet

Five Circular Representations of Young Women

Fortunato Duranti, 1810

Grey wash drawing of classical figures with a three-headed dog and snake-haired women around a bearded god in a lunette.

Psyche Asks Proserpine to Put a Little of her Beauty in an Urn for Venus

Johann August Nahl The Younger, 1770

Pencil drawing of Notre Dame Cathedral's towers and flying buttresses beside a conical turret, with rooftops below.

Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

Charles Nicolas Ransonnette, 1820

Pencil and brown wash sketch of Horseshoe Falls on the Niagara River, with a stone tower at left and rocky ledges.

Horseshoe Falls, Niagara River, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850