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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Ink drawing of a reclining nude man beside a standing draped figure offering a bow and arrows, with foliage behind.

Hercules adds Bow and Arrow to Philactetes

Felice Giani, 1810

Engraving of helmeted Minerva seated among cannons, armor and tools, with a battle and city behind her.

Minerva, or "Arma" (Allegory of the Art of War), pl. 2 in the Schema, seu Speculum Principum (Skills of a Prince) series

the Elder Jan Sadeler, 1590

Engraving of Hercules and Iolaus clubbing a many-headed hydra beneath trees, with an inscription above.

Hercules Slaying the Hydra

Sebald Beham, 1540

Pen and ink sketch of a lunette with two reclining figures flanking a standing draped figure, labeled Apollo Mnemosyne Giove.

Design for Lunette with Apollo, Mnemosyne and Jove

Felice Giani, 1810

Etching of a winged Cupid resting on a cushion with a quiver of arrows on his back, draped fabric behind him.

Cupid Resting, after a painting formerly attributed to Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Hand-colored print of nymphs and a satyr with goats beside a bearded herm sculpture in a wooded garden.

Nymphs and Satyrs Before a Herm

Jean François Janinet, 1780

Pen and brown ink drawing of women gathered around jewelry in a room, with a seated man gesturing toward them.

Ulysesses Discovers Achilles in Scyros

Felice Giani, 1790

Pen drawing of a nude woman riding a unicorn beside a satyr and putto, with scrolling foliage and the words Leonard Cox - His

Bookplate for Leonard Cox

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Brown wash drawing of an winged old man on a cloud handing an infant to a seated nude woman beside a column.

Time (Chronos) Entrusting Cupid to Venus

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Brown ink drawing of figures in procession offering garlands to a nude statue before a classical temple and rotunda.

Worship of Venus in a Classical Landscape

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown wash drawing of a reclining woman with a winged cherub, a ship approaching on the sea at right.

Study for an Overdoor Painting, Ariadne Viewing the Approach of Bacchus' Ship

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1700

Graphite drawing of three winged putti with trumpets and a wreath inside a stepped arched frame, with grid lines.

Three Putti with Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1800

Pen and ink design for a stage curtain showing a crowd gathered before a classical temple beneath clouds.

Design for Stage Curtain: Hercules Receives Gifts from Nymphys after his Victory over the River God Achelous

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown wash drawing of Venus reclining while Cupid tends her foot, with a hilly landscape and tree behind them.

Study for an Overdoor Painting, Cupid Removes a Thorn from the Foot of Venus

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1700

Circular painted design of a seated woman in pink drapery raising a cup, with two white doves above, on a gold ground.

Venus (Design for a Wall Painting)

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of a seated warrior in a tent as a woman is led forward by a helmeted man and bearded elders.

Achilles Yields Briseis

Felice Giani, 1790

Brown ink drawing of Diana seated with a falcon, surrounded by hunting dogs, nets and hunters in a wooded landscape.

The Hunt, Personified by Diana

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pen and brown wash drawing of nude figures in a wooded landscape, one seated woman gesturing toward distant hills.

Diana and Endymion

Leonardo Scaglia, 1650

Sepia drawing of four allegorical female statues in arched niches labeled Musica, Architettura, Pittura, Scoltura, with a sma

Four Statues in Niches: Music, Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture; Study of Bacchus and Mercury

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil drawing of three winged putti playing tambourines and trumpets within an arched architectural frame.

Three Putti with Tambourines and Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 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

Brown ink and wash drawing of two nude men in a landscape with a draped figure, discs on the ground, and a river.

Apollo and Hycianth, after Domenichino

Felice Giani, 1810

Four pen and wash drawings of putti statues on pedestals, labeled with allegorical names like Wisdom and Constancy.

Projects for statues: "Wisdom." "Constancy." "Eloquence." "Cupid Disguised."

Flemish Jan Claudius de Cock, 1720

Graphite pencil sketch of three female figures, one standing with raised arm, in a shaded rocky landscape, study for design.

A Group of Four Nymphs (Motif for Design)

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Brown ink drawing of ten octagonal and round panels showing classical mythological figures with handwritten Italian labels.

Ten Octagons with Mythological Figures

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a young woman with raised arms and a flower held at her shoulder, signed J. Carroll Beckwith.

Muse

Carroll Beckwith, 1900

Charcoal sketch of Fortuna, a blindfolded woman on a chariot surrounded by winged figures, on an octagonal sheet.

Fortuna

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Pen and brown wash drawing of two oval medallions, one showing a standing figure and one showing seated Minerva with an owl a

Minerva, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

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

Pencil sketch of a reclining nude male figure with arms outstretched, study for a Lathrop painting, 1890.

Study for "Diana and Her Attendants among the Constellations"

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1890