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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Brown ink and wash drawing of a frieze with mounted warriors, rearing horses, shields and spears in combat.

Battle Scene

Giulio Romano, 1540

Brown ink design sheet with cherubs, a lion, an oval shield, caryatids and a SEMPER banner, for stained glass.

Design for Stained Glass in the Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy

Wouter Crabeth I, 1580

Horizontal border design with repeated festoons, tulip blooms and scrolling foliage in pale tones on a rust-brown ground.

Design no. 12 for an Embroidered or Woven Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pen and brown ink studies of ornate candlesticks and candelabra with foliage and putti, with handwritten notes at top.

Candlesticks, Probably for the Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketch of the Tiber river with a domed church, villas, and trees along the banks, annotated with place names.

View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Claude's Villa, and St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor design of a radiant monstrance with angels, clouds, and two kneeling angels supporting a draped cloth below.

Project for a Ostensory

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pencil architectural drawing of a pediment with a circular medallion, Corinthian columns, and two small sketched cherubs belo

Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister

Carlo Marchionni, 1740

Two Sailing Ships

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Muted study of a painted ceiling section with framed panels, scrollwork cartouches, and a reclining figure.

Study for Section of Ceiling Ornament

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Pen and ink design of a vertical panel with an oval medallion, urn, garlands, crossed arrows and scrolling foliage.

Project for the decoration of a vertical panel

Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1780

Narrow oil sketch of a pale iceberg floating on dark sea water beneath a muted brown sky.

Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rococo ornamental frieze with scrollwork, a central mask, and foliate motifs.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Giuseppe Maria Rolli, 1720

Pen and grey wash design drawing of an ornate censer with a domed lid, garland swags and chains.

Design for a Thurible

Filippo Marchionni, 1730

Oil sketch of cumulus clouds lit in warm tones above a reddish ground and a distant blue hill at dusk.

Clouds over Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Ink and wash design with a seated allegorical woman, a putto and columns in a central panel, flanked by two round medallions

Vaulted Panel Design, Allegory of Justice, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, Italy

Felice Giani, 1810

Horizontal strip of grey and black wash showing a lake shoreline, dark water and a distant tree line under pale sky.

Fragment of "Trout Fishing, Lake St. John, Quebec"

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pen and brown ink drawing of a frieze with scrolling foliage, a skull, an oval cartouche, and a small creature with annotatio

Design for a Frieze: "Time"

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design of floral embroidery sprigs and garlands framed in a waistcoat outline, with handwritten inscription at top

Design for the Embroidered Decoration of a Man's Waistcoatr, Design 1876 of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Watercolor design for embroidery showing shrubs, pink flowers and grass within a violet waistcoat outline.

Design for Embroidered Waistcoat

Mademoiselle Favel, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of a tall obelisk on a pedestal with three standing figures and reclining figures around a mask me

Monument

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Vertical border design on rust-brown ground with pale repeating vine, bell-shaped flowers and curling leaves.

Design for a Woven or Embroidered Vertical Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pen and brown wash design for a symmetrical ornamental panel with scrolling foliage, cherubs, a medallion scene, and a centra

Design for a Painted Panel

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1760

Vertical grey-wash design of a classical pilaster strip with scrolls, acanthus leaves, rosettes and grapes.

Design for the Decoration of a Pilaster Strip

C. C, 1810

Pencil outline of a mountain ridgeline with a tall central peak on grey paper, labeled Katahdin from Katahdin Lake.

Cut-out of Mt. Katahdin from Katahdin Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

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

Watercolor and ink elevation of an altar design with painted marble panels, a central oval medallion, and classical pilasters

Project for an altar: intended to be executed in colored marbles

Mario Asprucci The Younger, 1750

Pencil sketch of the Baalbek temple ruins across a hazy landscape, with fallen stone blocks in the foreground and handwritten

Temples at Baalbek from the Roman Quarry, Lebanon, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Brown ink and wash drawing of a grotesque bearded head with curled hair on a foliate-decorated column.

Head of a walking stick

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Red chalk drawing of a seated armored woman with spear and shield in a rococo ornamental panel with garlands and urn.

Designs for Gobelins Tapestry, October (Les Mois Grotesques par Bandes)

Claude Audran III, 1700

Small oil sketch of a turquoise iceberg on dark sea under a brown sky with sunlight breaking through clouds.

Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850