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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketches of icebergs on tan paper, some highlighted in white, with handwritten notes and a distant coastline.

Floating Icebergs with Coastal View, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Painted blue and yellow butterfly above dark reflective water with a submerged branch at lower right.

Butterfly over Water

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a mounted officer on horseback with surrounding studies of heads and a dog.

Two Sketches of an Officer

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and wash drawing of a ceiling design in perspective with octagonal medallions, painted panels and small grotesque figures

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Ink and wash design drawing of an ornate oil lamp with female figure supports and a looped handle on a tall stem.

Design for an Oil Lamp

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pencil sketch of a cow lying down on tan paper, head turned toward the viewer, with horns and hatched shading.

Studying of a Lying Cow

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of a horizontal rococo scrollwork band with interlocking C-scrolls and leaf tendrils.

Design for Wrought-Iron Railing

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1750

Pencil sketch of a fisherman with a long rod beside a boulder on a rocky shore, on a cream paper sheet.

Fisherman by a Boulder, Millinocket Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Graphite and white chalk study of a right hand with a folded cuff on tan paper.

Study of Right Hand, Possibly for Portrait of Alexander Hamilton, Jr.

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of armored soldiers and horsemen battling a giant serpent, with a crowd of figures behind.

The Roman Consul Attilius Regulus Fighting a Giant African Serpent

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil drawing of two winged women in classical robes flanking a handled urn beneath a medallion and garlands.

Frieze with Bacchantes

Felice Giani, 1820

Grey wash drawing of an ornate rococo wall design with fireplace, scrollwork, cherubs and framed panels.

Design for a Chimney Piece and Adjoining Bays with Alternative Suggestions

Nicolas Pineau, 1700

Head of a dolphin

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds surrounded by angels and putti within an oval.

Design for a Ceiling with the Ascension of the Virgin

Francesco Trevisani, 1700

Chalk design sketch of a tiered centerpiece with shell-like base and small putti, on yellowed paper.

Design for a Centerpiece

Johannes Lutma, 1630

Pen and wash drawing of two ornate bronze keyhole escutcheon designs with scrolling foliage and garlands.

Design for Two Bronze Key Plates

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Watercolor study of a cow's head facing forward, with white face, brown ears and curved horns on tan paper.

Two Studies of Cattle

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil sketches of ornate monstrance designs with oval crystal settings and rococo scrolls, plus a stepped base study.

Monstrance and Crystal Cover

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed figures, a horseman, and a crowd beneath a canopy, with a distant landscape.

Spiritus Intellectus

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch of a man with a scythe in a field, seen from behind, with two distant workers and trees.

Man with a Scythe

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pen and blue wash drawing of two embracing bearded saints on clouds, with a rower in a boat and onlookers in an oval frame.

Two Saints

Corrado Giaquinto, 1710

Red chalk drawing of a standing nude man holding a long staff diagonally across his body on a toned paper.

Study of a nude

Ubaldo Gandolfi, 1740

Pen and watercolor sketch of an elegant couple in a red shawl and dark coat entering a crowded arched hall.

Arriving at the Hall

Constantin Guys, 1850

Watercolor of figures in colorful traditional Calabrian costumes on a dirt path beside a tree, with headdresses and staffs.

Costumes of South Calabria

Saverio della Gatta, 1820

Pale sketch of clouds over a calm sea with a small distant iceberg on the horizon.

Distant Iceberg at Sea, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and brown wash drawing of a winged woman driving a chariot of winged horses, with a trumpeting putto in the clouds.

Fame or Victory in a Chariot, Sala di Nike, Palazzo Naldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of a draped canopy bed alcove with a standing figure in a plumed hat at the right.

Bed Alcove with a Figure

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Painting of a seaport at night with town lights reflecting on calm water, a sailboat, and distant hills.

Night View of a Seaport

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of a group of robed standing figures, one bearded man holding a staff at center.

Paul Preaching in Athens, after Raphael

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a Siena cathedral interior with inlaid marble floor, pulpit, Gothic arches, and a fresco of robed figures.

Notes of the Duomo Choir, Siena, Italy

Walter Shirlaw, 1860