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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil study of two curled-horned rams, one standing and one lying down beside grass and rocks.

Study of Two Rams

Samuel Colman, 1850

Pencil sketch sheet showing a resting camel, a walled ruin, a horse, a spear, and a mountain slope with handwritten notes.

Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a reclining animal with pointed ears and folded legs on a cream sheet with a museum stamp.

Dog

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of calves' heads, a standing calf from behind, and a hog on a pale paper ground.

Studies of Cattle, Heads of Sheep and a Hog

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketches of robed figures and dogs on tan paper, with handwritten color notes annotating the clothing.

Figure Sketches with Dogs, Port Said, Egypt

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Dog and lion

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of two harnessed horses pulling a wagon with a spoked wheel visible on the right.

Horses and Wagon (The Picnic Excursion)

Winslow Homer, 1860

Study of a Horse, Quimper, Brittany

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil sketch of a horned cow in a barn beside a feeding trough, with a second cow head in the foreground and hanging harness

Cattle Study for Sheep-Shearing

Walter Shirlaw, 1870

Red chalk sketch on grey-blue paper of a dog lying down with its head resting forward.

Sketch: A couching dog

Giovanni Maria Viani, 1700

Watercolor study of three harnessed horses pulling a wooden plow across a field, on textured tan paper.

Study of Three Horses with a Plow, France

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a peacock with a long tail in a garden with trees and shrubs.

Peacock in a Garden

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of a horse's head and a saddle on a cream sheet mounted in a grey sketchbook album.

Head of a Horse and a Saddle

Winslow Homer, 1860

Watercolor study of a cow's head facing forward, with white face, brown ears and curved horns on tan paper.

Two Studies of Cattle

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil sketch sheet of sheep in various poses, grazing and resting on the ground, by Walter Shirlaw.

Sketches of Sheep

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and ink wash drawing of Hercules wrestling and killing the Nemean lion, with an Italian caption below.

Hercules and Nemean Lion

Felice Giani, 1800

Graphite sketch of a cow's body and back with hatched shading, a study for a mural by Kenyon Cox.

Study for "Herding," "The Progress of Civilization: Hunting, Herding, Agriculture," State Capitol, Des Moines, IA

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a cow lying down on tan paper, head turned toward the viewer, with horns and hatched shading.

Studying of a Lying Cow

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

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

Red chalk drawing of three goats, one standing, one lying down, and a head study at left, on tan paper.

Three Goats, after an etching from Berchem's "Animalia" (Animals) [ Animalia ad vivum delineata et aqua forti aeri im…

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1650

Pencil and watercolor sketch of two peacocks on open ground with trees and shrubs behind them, by Walter Shirlaw, 1880.

Two Peacocks in a Landscape

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Study of a Mule

Samuel Colman, 1870

Anatomical Sketches of Human and Animal Heads

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Ink and wash sketch of a bobolink in flight above reeds and a pool of water, on tan paper.

Bobolink

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Pencil sketches of a kingfisher wing's outside and inside, with handwritten color notes labeling the feathers.

Wing of a Black-capped Kingfisher

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Pencil sketch of three elephants, one with long tusks, moving through tall grass beneath trees.

Ivory at Home

Frederic Villiers, 1890

The Crackle, or Crow-Blackbird

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Pencil sketches of four bird wings on cream paper, annotated with handwritten color notes like greenish, blue, and light red.

Sketches of Wings

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Engraving of a hare and a lion made of curling ornamental leaf scrollwork, running across a hatched landscape.

Lion and Hare Composed of Ornamental Leaf-Work, from Neue-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen (New Designs for Ornaments…

Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel, 1690

Grayscale sketch of wolves attacking a steer on an open plain, with a pack running in the background under a hazy sky.

Lobo Showed the Pack How to Kill Beef

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890