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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Grayscale design study of three draped allegorical women on clouds, with a steam locomotive and smoke at right.

Design for a Bank Note

Walter Shirlaw, 1900

Ink drawing of two roundels showing winged Victory figures with chariots and horses in front of classical buildings.

Two Roundels with Victories in Chariots

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen drawing of an ornate royal galley seen from the stern, with carved decoration, a canopy, and choppy sea.

A Royal French Galley Seen from the Stern

Pierre Puget, 1660

Pencil drawing of three winged putti playing tambourines and trumpets within an arched architectural frame.

Three Putti with Tambourines and Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1800

Red chalk sketch of a woman carrying a tray of fruit with a small child walking beside her.

A Woman Leading a Child

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1770

Brown ink and wash design drawing of three decorative wall panels with niches, trees, garlands, and small landscape scenes.

Design for the Decorations of a Wall Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical column capital with a central female figure flanked by two winged figures.

Capital

Felice Giani, 1820

Graphite figure study of a seated nude man with one arm raised, draped legs, and a signed lower edge.

Figure Study, Possibly for Dome of Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL

Carroll Beckwith, 1890

Pencil sketch of three soldiers in long coats and caps standing with upright rifles on tan paper.

Three Soldiers

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing of a saint ascending among clouds, surrounded by angels and putti.

Apotheosis of a Saint

Corrado Giaquinto, 1740

Watercolor of a domed hall with crowds in academic gowns and red robes, galleries above, and a painted ceiling.

Encaenia in the Sheldonia

Thomas Uwins, 1810

Ink and wash sketch of seated soldiers in a camp with conical tents and a crowd of onlookers in top hats.

Zouaves in the Camp of St. Maur

Constantin Guys, 1850

Pencil sketch of a glass bottle with a long neck and a small child's head sketched above it on aged paper.

Glass bottle

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pencil sketches of a goat's head on pale paper, with horns, ears and eyes drawn in loose strokes.

Goat

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Sepia ink and wash drawing of a columned bed alcove with draped curtains and a coffered ceiling in perspective.

Design for a Bed Alcove, Perspective

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of rococo ceiling ornament with scrolls, garlands, putti and architectural moldings on a pale sheet.

Project for a Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750

Red and black chalk drawing of a fantastic goblet with a shell bowl, reclining nude figure, cherub, and merman support.

Design for a Fantastic Goblet

Johannes Lutma, 1630

Graphite drawing of a curly-haired man working at a table by lamplight, shown in soft grey shading.

An Artist Drawing by Lamplight

Felice Giani, 1800

Charcoal sketch of a young peasant woman in a headscarf, head bowed to one side, with a signature at lower left.

Portrait of a Peasant Girl

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Portrait of Sophie Huntington

Seth Wells Cheney, 1840

Pencil sketch sheet of llamas in grazing and standing poses, with a handwritten note near Chimborazo at upper right.

Llamas near Chimborazo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a low dome with ribbed panels and a classical frieze of rosettes and palmettes above a cornice.

Decoration for low dome of a room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of a rococo garden with a central fountain, scrolled architecture, arches and draped female figures.

Design for an Ornamental Decoration

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Pen and brown wash drawing of architectural designs, a frieze of figures, a niche with statues, an arcade, and a seated woman

Design after 13th Century Arcade, Bologna; Verso, Anatomical Study

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a draped classical female figure with a veiled head and outstretched arm.

Antique Statue of a Priestess

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil study of a reclining nude woman holding a raised torch, unfinished, on pale paper.

Study for "Liberty," "The Reign of the Law," Appellate Division Court House, New York, NY

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of mounted soldiers riding through a flag-decorated city street, with a Willkommen banner overhead.

Illustration Showing the Triumphal Return of the German Army After the German-French War

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

Drawing of twelve circular medallions in brown ink and wash showing Hercules fighting animals and monsters, with pencil inscr

Twelve Circular Medallions with Representations of the Deeds of Hercules

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil sketches on blue-grey paper of trees, vine stems, and foliage with handwritten notes about birds and plants.

Sketches from the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a mule lying on the ground with its head raised, mounted in a grey album page.

Mule Lying on the Ground

Winslow Homer, 1860