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Pen and ink stage design of a group of antique buildings with arches, colonnades, a pyramid, and small figures on steps.

Stage Design, Group of Antique Buildings

Angelo Toselli, 1800

Sheet of pencil and white-heightened sketches showing sailing boats, schooners and sails on a tan ground.

Sketches of Sailing Boats

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a rounded coastal rock headland with an arched opening at its base, drawn on tan paper.

Cuckhold Head from Signal Hill, St. John's, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a domed architectural interior with Corinthian columns and a floor plan in the lower right corner.

Architecture seen from below, design for plate 55 in Andrea Pozzo's "Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum"

Andrea Pozzo, 1700

Pencil sketch of an army wagon with a mule in harness and a soldier beside it, on pale paper mounted in a grey album.

Army Wagon and Mule

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of a flat-topped island above two studies of floating icebergs on tan paper, with handwritten location note.

Island off Henley Harbour with Two Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of East River shoreline with trees, a distant obelisk, and a small boat, with handwritten notes on the left edg

East River from Deck of Steamboat

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Pencil and grey wash sketch of soldiers resting in a wooded camp beside a fire, with a horse and a standing figure.

Soldiers Camping

Winslow Homer, 1860

Loose sketch of rolling hills, a distant mountain, and cloudy sky above a wide valley with a dark wooded slope at left.

Mountainous Lanscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Graphite sketch of boulders, wooded hills and a distant rocky mountain with handwritten notes in the margins.

In Front of Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Brown ink drawing of a long arcaded palace with a central dome and statues on its corners, shown in wash.

Design for a Royal Palace in the Style of Borromini

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Floating Icebergs near St. Lewis Bay, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and watercolor sketch of terraced rust-colored rock formations and hazy mountains beneath a blue hill.

Hot Springs, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a man in a canoe raising a harpoon on choppy water, with a billowing smoke shape above.

Man in a Canoe with Harpoon

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of a rugged snow-streaked mountain summit above a forested valley, near Berchtesgaden, by Frederic Edwin Church

Summit of the Watzmann, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Graphite sketch of two resting dogs on cream paper, one curled on the left and one stretched on the right.

Dogs

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Ink and wash drawing of mourning figures gathered around a reclining body beside an inscribed pedestal and bust.

Mourning Over the Dead Christ

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Small painted study of a lake at sunset with a sailboat, red sky, mountains and sun reflected on the water.

Maine Lake, Sunset

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and ink drawing of a fantasy landscape with a castle on rocky cliffs, an arched bridge, a watermill and trees.

Fantasy Landscape with Watermill

Domenico Campagnola, 1530

Ink and wash drawing of a symmetrical classical villa facade flanked by obelisks, cypress trees and a carriage.

Project for the Elevation of a Villa

Paolo Posi, 1800

Painted sketch of Horseshoe Falls at Niagara with rocky shore, overhanging trees and a warm sky.

Horseshoe Falls and Goat Island from the Canadian Bank, Niagara Falls, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash sketch of a horse pulling a carriage with a top-hatted driver, with distant carriages at left.

A Horse and Carriage

Constantin Guys, 1850

Loose watercolor of rough waves breaking around dark rocks with white foam and a distant shoreline.

Woodland Stream

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of distant hills under clouds with handwritten colour notes about a sunset above the page.

Sunset over the Catskills, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Watercolor embroidery design with floral sprigs and grasses arranged across a waistcoat outline, 1780.

Design no. 1878 for the Embroidery of a Man's Waistcoat of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Watercolor embroidery design of a flower-filled urn with roses, an iris, and trailing garlands, with a border of beads and fr

Design for Embroidered Waistcoat, pattern 1600 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf

Mademoiselle Montalent, 1780

Pencil sketch of a steep mountain valley with a stream, clouds above, and a tree trunk at the right edge.

View of Monte Rosa near Macugnaga, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown wash drawing of a vaulted temple stage set with a central statue, winged figures, fire urns, and Italian inscriptions o

Stage Design: Interior of a Temple

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and wash elevation of a bed alcove with Corinthian columns, draped canopy, balustrade and paneled walls.

Bed Alcove for the Duc d'Orléans, Palais Royal, Paris, France

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1710

Pencil sketch of a riverbank village with a palm tree, a small boat on the water, and handwritten color notes.

Village on a Riverbank, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850