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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of Italian city buildings with a domed church, bell tower, and rooftops, with handwritten notes on the page.

City Buildings, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Etching of a village by a river with a winding wooden bridge, half-timbered houses, a church steeple and a hilltop castle.

Landscape with a winding wooden Bridge

Augustin Hirschvogel, 1540

Engraved print of a waterfall under a stone arch bridge, with trees, rocky cliffs, strolling figures and a tower on a hill.

The Devil's Bridge, near Cassel, Germany

Friedrich Schroeder, 1790

Engraved street view of the Old City Hall on Wall Street with columns, a cupola, strolling figures and a large tree.

View of the Old City Hall, Wall Street

Hatch and Smillie, New York, NY, 1820

Engraved plans and elevations of London Bridge showing arches, towers and a church tower, with scale bars and text.

Plans for the New London Bridge

Benjamin Cole, 1740

Engraved view of Florence across the Arno river, with boats in the foreground and the cathedral dome and towers on the skylin

View of Florence with the Cathedral, S. Croce, Palazzo Vecchio, Plate 4 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali…

Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli, 1730

Engraving of a mounted man in a dark coat greeted by girls strewing flowers under a floral arch with flags.

Washington on the Bridge at Trenton on His Way To Be Inagurated, 1789

Thomas Kelley, 1810

Hand-colored peep-show print of Amsterdam's skyline seen across harbor water, with ships, rowboats and flags in the foregroun

Peep-show, Vue Generale de la Ville d'Amsterdan du Côté de Tye (A General View of the City of Amsterdam from the Tye)

Thomas Bowles, 1750

Etching of a river harbor with a city skyline, a suspension bridge, ships and industrial piers under a hazy sky.

Sunset from Williamsburg Bridge

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Pencil sketch of three men playing dominoes at a table beside a teapot, with Chinese scrolls on the wall behind them.

Three Chinese Men Playing Dominoes in a Baxter Street Club-House, New York City

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil sketch of a sailing ship's rigging and sail in the foreground, with a distant Venetian skyline across calm water.

View of Venice, Italy

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Etching of St. James's Palace gatehouse with clock tower, pedestrians in top hats and an early car on the street.

St. James's Palace from St. James's Street

Joseph Pennell, 1900

Pencil sketch of a reclining man smoking a long pipe on a wooden bench, with another figure in a bunk behind him.

Chinese Man Smoking an Opium Pipe in a Baxter Street Club House, New York City

Winslow Homer, 1870

Colorful watercolor design of ceiling panels with star patterns, rosettes, acanthus leaves and floral garlands.

Design for Ceiling, City Hall, Vienna, Austria

Friedrich von Schmidt, 1890

Pencil sketch of the High Bridge at Harlem with a row of arches crossing water, trees along the banks, title written above.

High Bridge at Harlem, New York

Martha S. Day, 1860

Woodblock print of a long arched bridge over blue river, with scaffolded pagoda roofs in foreground and distant mountain.

Yoshida (Toyokawa Bridge), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraving of women in a fashionable interior by a canopied bed, with a servant bearing a tray and a small dog among them.

Le Retour du Baptesme (Return from the Baptism), Plate IV, from Le Mariage à la Ville (Marriage in the City)

Abraham Bosse, 1630

Engraved street scene of fashionable city pedestrians with parasols, top hats, dogs and a child passing a Laces & Fancy Goods

Spring in the City

Winslow Homer, 1850

Woodblock print of a stone bridge with palanquin bearers, vendors with baskets, and tall ceremonial poles under a morning sky

Nihon Bridge, Morning View, Nihonbashi, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a leaping deer, hounds, arched bridge, waterfall, ostrich and fruit.

Design for Cartouche Forming a Bridge (Horizontal)

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved courtroom scene of seated jurors listening to a standing lawyer reading from a paper, with a judge at the left.

Jurors Listening to Counsel, Supreme Court, New City Hall, New York

Winslow Homer, 1860

Woodblock print of travelers crossing a curved wooden bridge beside thatched houses, a willow tree and hills under a pale sky

Hodogaya (Shinkame Bridge), in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1820