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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Red-toned print of two birds with spread wings among leafy trees, grasses and a fallen branch in a landscape.

Hunting Scene: Birds in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Engraving of turbaned hunters with dogs attacking a lion beneath a large flowering palm tree.

Lion Hunt

Jean-Baptiste Scotin I, 1730

Sepia oval print of a seated woman in white robes with a lion and donkey beside her in a forest.

Una and the Lion, from Spenser's "Faerie Queen"

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

Reddish-brown print of two birds beside a nest with eggs, surrounded by trees, branches and grasses in a landscape.

Two Birds and a Bird’s Nest in a Landscape

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Misty brown-toned print of a brewery with a tall chimney beside a river, with rowboats in the foreground.

Lion Brewery

Joseph Pennell, 1880

Sepia drawing of a seated shepherd seen from behind, facing a small dog standing on its hind legs in a grassy landscape.

Seated Shepherd Playing with a Dog

Flemish Gilles Demarteau, 1770

Engraved elevation of the east front of the Horse and Foot Guards at Whitehall, with a central clock tower and arcaded wings.

The East Front of the Horse and the Foot Guards at Whitehall

Benjamin Cole, 1740

Engraving of Hercules strangling a lion beside a column, with a castle, tree, shield and bow in the background.

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraved print of an acanthus leaf scroll with two birds, one perched and one in flight, on the right.

Acanthus motif with two birds

Cesare Domenichi, 1610

Engraved landscape of a forest path with figures, cattle, sheep and a shepherd beneath tall trees.

Landscape with Figures and Farm Animals

Pierre Aveline the younger, 1700

Two orange-bellied squirrels, one hanging upside down, climbing a tree branch with green leaves and nuts on a pale background

Orange-Bellied Squirrel

John James Audubon, 1830

Etching of a soldier with a horse, a groom with a staff, and a dog on rocky ground by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Soldier with Horse and Groom, from the Vari Capricci

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

Engraving of a boy in a ruff collar riding a spaniel and holding a bird on his raised hand beside an oak tree.

The Dog of Goltzius

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Hand-colored plate of a Canada lynx crouching on a mossy log with foliage behind it.

Canada Lynx

John James Audubon, 1830

Oil sketch of a brown and white cow standing before a reddish barn wall, painted in loose brushwork.

Study of a Standing Cow, Farmington

Samuel Colman, 1870

Ink sketch in two registers: robed figures and animals above, a crowd confronting a satyr among rocks below.

Apollonius meeting the People and Animals of Ethiopia [above]; Apollonius Quelling the Ghost of a Satyr in Ethiopia […

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Charcoal study of two sleeping cats, one curled up at upper left and one stretched out at lower right, on tan paper.

Study of Cats

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Loose oil study of a brown and white cow grazing with its head down on a dirt ground, with a barn wall behind.

Study of a Grazing Cow

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil sketch of chimneys, rooftops and a scrolled barber's sign on tan paper, annotated Lausanne Sept. 18.

Chimneys - Lusanne

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Graphite sketch of a cow lying down, seen from behind with head turned to the right, horns visible, on tan paper.

Study of a Lying Cow

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

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 of rooftops and the Red Lion Hotel sign beside a harbor with sailboats and flying gulls.

Red Lion Hotel

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of mounted cavalry driving a large herd of cattle across a field past a tree and stream.

The Cattle Raid by the Confederate Cavalry

Alfred R. Waud, 1880

Watercolor study of three cattle: a brown steer grazing, a black-and-white steer standing, and a brown cow beside a fence.

Cattle, Steers

Samuel Colman, 1880

Pencil sketch of a horse's head and harness on cream paper, with handwritten inscription below.

A Buggy Horse

Arnold William Brunner, 1890

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 three horse heads on tan paper, one larger above two smaller studies, with a museum stamp below.

Horse

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Red chalk study of a rearing horse with raised head and flowing tail on an octagonal sheet of paper.

Study of a Rearing Horse after Leonardo da Vinci

Francesco Melzi, 1530

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

Dog

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870