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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of a seated woman in draped robes holding a board beside a wooden chair, with a faint second figure at right.

Study of Seated Woman for National Academy of Design Tympanum

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pencil sketch of a standing man in Arabian robes and headcloth, with handwritten labels naming each garment and weapon.

Arabian Man

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and ink drawing of infant Hercules strangling two serpents in a dark room, with a woman and an older man reacting nearby.

The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpent

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a bishop preaching to kneeling figures beneath cherubs in clouds, framed by columns and an alta

Sermon of a Holy Abbot

Francesco Saverio Mergolo, 1780

Pencil sketch of a standing soldier in a cap and buttoned jacket, holding a pipe in his mouth.

Soldier with Pipe in His Mouth

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and brown wash sheet with eight octagonal designs: six classical figure scenes and two circular foliated ornaments.

Six Octagonal Compostions, Hercules and Hebe, Two Foliated Ornaments, Sala di Ercole e Ebe, Palazzo Gessi

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown wash sketch of a kneeling bishop with mitre and crozier, hands clasped in prayer.

A Kneeling Bishop

Belisario Corenzio

Pen and brown ink drawing of five draped female allegories of painting, poetry, sculpture, architecture and music.

Allegorical Figures of the Arts

Felice Giani, 1800

Two circular brown ink drawings on blue paper: a winged victory driving a horse above, and a winged victory crowning a river

A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning a River God, Reno; two roundels

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and ink sketches of ornate architectural frames with scrollwork, cartouches and foliage, with scale notes, by Carlo March

Sketches for Frames, for the Sacristy of St. Peter's

Carlo Marchionni, 1740

Study: A right arm holding a stick

Ercole Graziani, 1700

Pen and brown ink lunette drawing with grey wash showing figures in an allegory of painting, with a seated painter at an ease

Lunette with Allegory of Painting

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of figures in a rowboat, a bay window outline, and a hull in water, with handwritten notes reading Jaffa.

Boats and a Bay Window, Jaffa, Palestine (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Four brown ink and wash drawings of draped female caryatid figures standing side by side with raised arms.

Four Caryatids

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash sketch of horsemen with a pennant, a crowd and tents in a military landscape.

Retreat of the Turks after the Siege of Vienna, 1529

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Pen and wash drawing of mythological figures in clouds above scrollwork, with a bull and sea creature below.

Design for Illuminated Initial "F"

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1690

Red chalk drawing of putti and female figures supporting a laurel-framed medallion with a coat of arms.

Project for a wall decoration (Female figures and putti support medallion with coat of arms)

Luca Giordano, 1700

Pencil and wash sketch of two women in period costume facing each other, one wearing a mask, on brown paper.

Two Masked Ladies Bowing

Édouard de Beaumont, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a shepherd boy playing a flute beside a seated shepherdess with sheep under trees.

Shepherd Boy and Shepherdess in a Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1760

Pen and wash drawing of a pyre with mourners above a handwritten list of garments, attributed to Stradanus, 1600.

Death of the Woman of Sestos [above]; Inscription [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Oil study of a brown and white cow standing side on in a sunlit field, with blue-green background.

Study of a Standing Cow

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pen and ink sketches of putti, a draped woman, and a globe with cherubs, with an inscription naming painting, poetry and astr

Sketches for wall paintings: Arts and Sciences

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1800

Brown ink drawing of an illusionistic wall design with spiral columns, putti, and a crowned king with soldiers under an arch.

Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration, with a King Accompanied by Soldiers

Gaetano Lazzara, 1700

Pencil sketches of plants and foliage with a poplar branch on the right, annotated with handwritten color notes.

Plant Sketches with Poplar Tree

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor sketch of a cathedral choir interior with an artist at an easel and two figures in long dresses.

Lower Part of the Choir, Siena Cathedral

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

Brown ink frieze drawing of two winged women with wreaths flanking two seated bulls and a central urn with garlands.

Design for a Symmetrical Frieze

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a leaning man with bowed head and arm resting on a curved form, inside a green and yellow ink mount.

Leaning Man

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700

Pencil and wash sketch of a standing uniformed officer with a kepi and sword, with a horse's head faintly below.

Officer and Head of a Horse

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing of a winged figure of Fame with two putti among clouds inside an octagonal frame.

Octagonal Drawing, Fame with Two Putti, Palazzo Morri, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor design of a classical chimneypiece with two green satyr caryatids and a frieze of lions and scrolls.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Luigi Righetti, 1810