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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 sketch of layered cliffs with horizontal rock strata and handwritten notes on tan paper.

Straits of Belle Isle, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

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 sketch of clouds over a sea horizon and rocky shore, with handwritten colour notes on grey paper.

Clouds

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

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

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

Pencil sketch of five icebergs on a horizon line, with white highlights and handwritten dates July 5th and July 6th.

Five Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

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

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

Pencil sketch of a rocky plain with boulders, a lone tree, and distant mountains, with handwritten colour notes.

Mountainous Landscape with Boulders, 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 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

Pencil and white-heightened sketch of tree roots, branches, wispy clouds and wildflowers on tan paper, by Frederic Edwin Chur

The Canadian Bank, Niagara Falls, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

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 drawing of a farmhouse, barn and outbuildings beside a split-rail fence and a bare tree in a grassy field.

Mr. Shriner's Farmhouse

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1850

Muted sketch of a mountain rising above a still lake with dark trees along the shore and soft clouds overhead.

Mt. Katahdin from Katahdin Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pale watercolor of a wide river beneath hazy sky, with sandstone bluffs on the right and a sandbar in the foreground.

Green River from the Ferry, Wyoming Territory

Thomas Moran, 1880

Pencil sketch of rolling storm waves and clouds with a small distant ship on the horizon, on toned paper.

Combers in a Stormy Sea

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pale sketch of the American Falls at Niagara with snowy rocks, bare trees and mist, drawn in graphite and white highlights.

The American Falls in Snow, Niagara Falls, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink drawing of Minerva in a helmet writing on a tablet, with an owl on a pedestal and scrolls beside her.

Minerva

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of uniformed soldiers in formation with rifles, a sword-bearing officer in the foreground, and figures fading i

Infantry Rifle Drill, Sickles Regiment, Lee's Mills, Virginia

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of clouds and horizon with handwritten color notes such as smoky green, brick red, and brilliant orange.

Evening Rain over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate architectural capital with scrolls and carved animal heads on a plain pedestal.

Design for an Ornament

Carlo Marchionni, 1720

Pencil and wash sketch of men in hats gathered around a campfire with kettles hanging over the flames.

Campfire with Soldiers

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil cloud study on aged paper with numbered tonal notes and handwritten annotations about grey clouds.

Clouds over Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Watercolor of fishermen pulling a boat ashore beside a woman, children, and nets, with a coastal town behind.

Water color; On the shore in Chiaja

Saverio della Gatta, 1820

Pencil sketch of hop vines with cones and lobed leaves, with a handwritten note reading Hop Vine, East Hampton, 1880.

Sketch of Hop Vine

Samuel Colman, 1880

Pencil sketch of hilly terrain with trees and handwritten color notes, labeled April.

Mountain Pass, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860