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Pencil sketch of steep mountain slopes rising above a still lake with trees along the shore and a pale sky.

Hachelkopf above the Königssee, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a snow-capped volcano above brown mountain ridges, with an unfinished pencil village drawing in the foreground.

Mount Chimborazo and Guaranda, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a landscape with dark clouds, pale sky, a horizon line, and a small mounted rider with handwritten color not

Landscape with Mounted Figure, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a hilly valley with shrubs, trees and distant ridges, with handwritten colour notes on tan paper.

Landscape near Jorje, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a mountain valley with rocky ridges and sweeping hills on grey paper.

Sunset in a Mountain Valley, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Sketch of the Watzmann mountain peaks in Bavaria, lit warmly at the summit above a dark brown hillside.

The Watzmann, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Loose oil sketch of the Parthenon on a hill at sunset, with fallen column drums in the foreground.

The Parthenon at Sunset, Athens

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Loose oil sketch of dark clouds against a glowing orange twilight sky above distant blue hills.

Clouds at Twilight, Color Effects, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a distant mountain ridge over hills, with handwritten notes about remoteness and yellow dead grass.

Rugged Mountain Landscape, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Pale sketch of a cascading waterfall over a curved ledge, with white highlights on tan paper and foaming rapids below.

Horseshoe Falls on the Niagara River, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Loose pencil sketch of three men in a canoe on water, with a paddle and shoreline outlined.

Fisherman and Two Other Men in a Canoe

Winslow Homer, 1890

Loose painted sketch of a sunset over rolling hills, with a distant dome and a dark statue silhouetted in the foreground.

Sunset over St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and ink sketches of a Roman church's vaulted ceiling, frescoed arcade, and gabled facade with arched windows.

Sketches of the Interior and Exterior of a Church, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Loose oil sketch of a cloudy sky with pink and blue patches above dark hills along the bottom edge.

Cloudy Sky over Mountains, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of ruined stone columns and an arch with scattered blocks, plus small face studies in headscarves at upper righ

Ruins and Figure Sketches, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of the Grand Canyon's layered cliffs, mesas and winding river, with handwritten notes on the sky.

The Grand Canyon in the Rain

Thomas Moran, 1870

Pencil sketch on green paper of snowy alpine peaks over a valley and lake, with fir trees and a fence in the foreground.

Near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of clouds above a sea horizon with handwritten color notes and numbers on cream paper.

Sunset at Sea, Ecuador, Part Five

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil sketch of a grassy valley under dark storm clouds, with layered blue hills and a reddish bluff on the right.

View in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of jagged rock formations and a sloping hillside at the Devil's Den, Yellowstone, by Thomas Moran.

The Devil's Den, Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1870

Oil sketch of a dense Jamaican hillside with tropical trees, ferns, and yellow flowering shrubs in green and brown tones.

Hillside with Trees, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a raised two-storey wooden house with a balcony and sloping roof, beside a colonnaded structure.

A Street Corner in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sketch of a full moon over snowy hills at twilight, with pink rays across a pale sky and blue horizon.

Full Moon over a Winter Landscape at Twilight, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of domed buildings and a tall pine tree in misty Rome, with handwritten colour notes in the margins.

View of Rome from the Palazzo Braschi, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted woodland stream with rocky banks, dense shrubs and grass in the foreground under a hazy olive sky.

Woodland Stream, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Sketch of a sunset over a valley with a winding river, green hills, distant mountains, and pink and orange clouds.

Sunset in the Hudson Valley, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Oil sketch of a tropical river valley at sunset with palm trees, cliffs, a winding river and small figures.

Imaginary South American Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850