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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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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

Sketch of Trumpeting Angel

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Woodcut of mourners lowering Christ's nude body, with a crown of thorns and tools on the ground.

The Lamentation, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Three circular brown ink and wash drawings depicting scenes of Bacchus with attendants, dancers, and satyrs before classical

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a winged angel resting on a ledge beside several small putti reaching outward.

Sketch of an Angel and Putti

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Engraving of Christ with a crown of thorns carrying the cross, flanked by soldiers and a kneeling woman holding a cloth.

Christ Carrying the Cross (Road to Calvary), from series The Passion of Christ

Martin Schongauer, 1400

Pen and wash drawing of three classical figures on clouds in an oval frame, including a winged youth holding a torch.

Design for Wall or Ceiling Decoration with Bacchus, Hymen and Venus

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a woman's head wrapped in a veil, knotted at the neck, on tan paper with a museum stamp.

Sketch of Head of the Madonna

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Black and white print of Hercules fighting twin warriors beneath bare trees, with a distant town and fallen armor in the fore

Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

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

Loose pencil sketch on tan paper of winged figures in motion, rising across the page with a museum stamp in the upper left.

Sketch of Winged Figures for Ascension

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Engraving of Christ breaking through Hell's gate, with figures in the foreground and demons in the upper right.

Christ in Limbo (The Harrowing of Hell)

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Pen and ink sketch of four stacked vignettes showing draped classical goddesses, altars, and mythological figures on a pale s

Four Antique Goddesses

Pencil sketch of winged angels around a central figure with raised arms, drawn loosely on cream paper.

Worshipping Angels

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Engraving of the entombment of Christ, with mourners around a stone tomb beneath tree trunks.

The Entombment, from The Passion

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1520

Pen and ink drawing in an octagon of a banquet with reclining gods, a spilled cup, and a fallen figure on the floor.

Hebe Falls and Spills the Nectar Brought to Jupiter

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor study of the Madonna and Child with two draped attendant figures under an arched niche over a tiled floor.

Madonna and Child

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Black and white engraving of the Adoration of the Magi in a timber stable, with the Virgin and Child, three kings and a star.

Adoration of the Magi

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Pen and ink drawing of Hercules seated beside a bull with kneeling women and a figure holding a wreath, on blue paper.

Hercules and Tole

Felice Giani, 1810

Loose pencil sketch on brown paper of a head, shoulders and hands in quick overlapping lines.

Sketch of a Man or Angel with a Book

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Woodcut of the Descent from the Cross: a man on a ladder lowers Christ's body while mourners stand nearby.

The Descent from the Cross (The Deposition), from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Brown ink and wash drawing of draped figures seated and standing on steps, an audience gathered around a preaching scene.

Saint Paul Preaching, after Raphael

Felice Giani, 1810

Sketches for Two Angels and Faith

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1880

Etching of a radiant figure preaching to a crowd, with sick people kneeling and lying in the foreground.

Christ Preaching (The Hundred Guilder Print)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Pen and brown wash sketch of ten lunette-shaped scenes with seated muses, each labeled in handwritten Italian.

Ten Lunettes with Muse and Mnemosine

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil studies of winged angel figures on tan paper, with overlapping wings and sketched bodies in various poses.

Sketches of Angels

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Woodcut of Christ with a halo and staff appearing to a seated woman in a headscarf beside a curtained bed.

Christ Appearing to His Mother

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Brown ink and wash drawing with two hexagonal scenes of Orpheus and Eurydice: classical figures by a building, and figures in

Two Episodes with Orpheus and Eurydice

Felice Giani, 1810

Engraving of Christ bound to a column, scourged by two tormentors with whips in an arched stone setting.

The Flagellation of Christ, from series The Passion of Christ

Martin Schongauer, 1400

Woodcut of the Entombment: men lower Christ's body while mourning women stand nearby beside a rocky tomb and a crown of thorn

The Entombment, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, 1500