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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Brown wash drawing of a bed alcove with Corinthian columns, drapery swags, and an arched pediment with a central medallion.

Design for a Bed Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash design for a coffered ceiling with figures among clouds in ornate stucco panels, within a green and gold border.

Design for a Coffered Ceiling, with the Muses

Charles de Wailly, 1770

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 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

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

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

Ink and wash elevation drawing of an ornate neoclassical interior wall with a central chimneypiece, columns, and cherub relie

Elevation of an Interior Wall with Chimneypiece

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Pen and wash drawing of two allegorical women flanking an inscribed pedestal and obelisk, with cherubs and a garland above.

Design for a Monochrome Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1690

Pen and ink sketch of decorative ceiling panels with ornamental borders, rosettes, an arched niche and a small figure.

Sketches for the Painted Decoration of Ceilings

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown wash design of decorated door and wall panels with classical figures, urns, garlands and an oval medallion.

Design for Door and Adjoining Wall Panel Decorations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Oval pen and brown ink drawing of an imagined architectural space with arcades, balustrades, columns, and clouds.

Capriccio for a Painted Ceiling

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, 1690

Pencil sketch of an ornate palace wall with niches, classical statues, arched windows and decorative friezes with putti.

Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King…

Felice Giani, 1700

Pen and brown wash design drawing of a wall with a draped alcove and a classical frieze of small figures above.

Design for Wall with Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor of a decorated wall with wood paneling, caryatid figures, putti, an oval hunting scene and a wooden chair.

Section of wall, Gallery Francis I, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Brown ink and wash sketch of a chariot race in a classical arena with horses, charioteers, and colonnaded buildings.

Project for Wall Paintings, as Decoration of a Frieze

Felice Giani, 1820

Brown wash design drawing of a decorative ceiling grid with white scrolling foliage panels, fading to plain outlined panels b

Design for a Bedroom Ceiling

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1880

Watercolor design for a memorial tablet with a green inscription band, a laurel wreath medallion, and ochre and red panels.

Design for a Memorial Tablet

John La Farge, 1890

Brown ink and wash lunettes showing Achilles driving a chariot past Troy and Priam pleading before a seated warrior at a banq

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector around Walls of Troy, Priam Pleads for the Body of Hector, Ceiling Designs for the…

Felice Giani, 1800

Design drawing for a Gothic stained glass window with two robed women, a lily and open book, a cross, and scripture text belo

Design for Stained Glass Window

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Watercolor design for a decorative panel with a central urn of scrolling flowers, rosettes and wreaths in green, pink and gol

Design for a Decorative Panel

John La Farge, 1900

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged figure with a charging bull among clouds, in a semicircular lunette shape.

Tarus, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Watercolor design for a stained glass window with Adam and Eve, three biblical figures, and scenes of Annunciation, Nativity,

Design for Stained Glass Window, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, Albany, NY

Edward Burne-Jones, 1880

Watercolor and pencil design for an ornate wall niche with columns, arched canopy, heraldic shield and rosettes.

Design for a Wall Niche

John La Farge, 1900

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged putto aiming a bow from a centaur in a lunette-shaped composition.

Sagittarius, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Watercolor design for a stained glass window with a saint, robed figures, a child, and a Crucifixion medallion above.

Design for Stained Glass Window, St. Paul's Church, Boston, MA

Edward Burne-Jones, 1870

Drawing of a veiled female saint holding a lily and cross in a stone arched niche, a study for a stained glass window.

Study for the Goddard Memorial Window, in St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1880

Pen and grey wash design for a decorative ceiling with winged putti, garlands and round classical medallions around a blank c

Palazzo Quirinale, Rome;

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor design for three gothic stained glass lancet panels with figures and leafy borders, labeled for Paisley Abbey.

Design for Stained Glass, Southeast Window Nave, Paisley Abbey, Scotland

Edward Burne-Jones, 1870

Red chalk study of classical statues and columns in an interior, with a draped figure at right, within a double-ruled border.

Studies with figure of Apollo from Raphel's School of Athens

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Watercolor study of robed standing figures, some with haloes, against a diamond-patterned background in red, blue and green.

Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900