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Brown ink and wash drawing of a tall palm tree over resting travelers and animals on rocky ground.

Caravan at Rest Near a Herm

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650

Ink and wash lunette design showing figures in a studio interior with a draped curtain and decorated pedestal.

Design for a Lunette with Allegory of Sculpture

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil botanical sketch of a tall flowering stem and blossoms on paper, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Botanical Sketches, Bloxburgh, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink line drawing of a costumed figure in a plumed helmet and winged cape, signed by Enrico Caruso at lower right.

Enrico Caruso as Don José in "Carmen"

Enrico Caruso, 1920

Brown ink and wash design drawing of a circular platter with a scalloped rim and leaf ornament on one edge.

Design for a Circular Platter

Johann Nepomuk Muxel, 1800

Pencil drapery study of a seated woman with billowing cloth and arms raised, drawn over a squared grid.

Study for "The Court," "The Common Law," Appellate Division Court House, New York, NY

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Pencil sketches of a woman carrying a child, a small child, and a man in a wide-brimmed hat on tan paper.

Figure Sketches, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Grey-wash still life drawing of fish, a lobster, and a parrot beside stone blocks and a hanging fish.

Still-life with Fish and Parrot

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1740

Painted landscape of two pine trees on a rocky slope above a reddish path, with rolling hills and a blue sky.

Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of classical gods feasting at a long table, with putti attending and clouds of figures above.

The Feast of the Gods

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a dory crowded with men, with loose lines suggesting waves and water below the boat.

Dory Filled with Men

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor of men gathered on a harbor jetty by a lighthouse, with a central figure in yellow breeches reciting from an open

Water color; Rinaldo Rinaldini is reciting upon the jetty

Saverio della Gatta, 1820

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 a young woman in a hat holding a leafy apple tree branch in a grassy field.

Girl Holding a Branch of an Apple Tree

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil sketch of a central figure seen from behind, surrounded by smaller figures of women and children on tan paper.

Group of figures

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Red chalk drawing of two children's heads, one tilted downward and one turned upward, with curly hair.

Studies: Two heads of children

Mauro Gandolfi, 1800

Grey-wash drawing of a ceiling study with clouds, a central chariot figure, putti, and reclining women.

Study for Painted Decoration of a Ceiling, Casino de la Reina (Queen's Casino), Madrid, Spain

Vicente López Portaña, 1810

Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Oil sketch of a sunset over layered pink and teal hills, with a small orange sun above a pale water band.

Two Views of the Sunset from Olana, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of three draped female figures on clouds, a study by Walter Shirlaw for a bank note design.

Commerce (Motif for Bank Note Design)

Walter Shirlaw, 1900

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

Drawing of a seated shepherdess playing a flute to a reclining shepherd beside a tree, in black and red chalk.

Shepherdess Piping to a Shepherd

François Boucher, 1770

Pencil sketch of cardamom and arrowroot plants with handwritten colour notes on a tan sheet of paper.

Cardamom and Arrowroot Sketches, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

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

Four Antique Goddesses

Crouching Dromedary

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of three ornate chalices with baluster stems and decorative bases on tan paper.

Three chalices

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

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

Gray monochrome painting of a rooster and hens on a diagonal wooden roost, with chicks gathered in straw below.

Cock and Chickens

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and brown wash drawing of the Virgin on clouds with angels playing lute and organ, mounted with a study of musician saint

The Assumption of the Virgin

Ventura Salimbeni, 1610

Pencil sketch of rocky cliffs and headlands on tan paper, labeled Great Island.

Coastline Cliffs of Great Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850