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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor sketch of a standing young Cheyenne figure in a red shirt and fringed leggings against a pale wash background.

Cheyenne Youth

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of a river landscape with hills, a distant snowy peak, trees, and handwritten color notes below.

View along the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and brown ink drawing of a female ballet dancer in an 18th-century gown with pearl and ivy trim, mid-step.

A Ballet Dancer, Mademoiselle Marie Allard

Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle, France, 1770

Pencil sketch of fern fronds and bamboo on tan paper, with handwritten color notes and a round museum stamp.

Botanical Sketches of Ferns and Bamboo, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a hilly ridge with clouds and handwritten colour notes on grey paper, Jamaica, 1860.

Mountain Ridge with Clouds, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a broken carved column capital with acanthus leaves beside a camel head with bridle.

Column Capital and Head of a Camel, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Sketch on tan paper of dandelion seed heads on thin stems with a yellow eyespot moth in the upper right corner.

Study of White Daisy, Chamomile Stem with Two Petals, and a Chamomile Petal

Samuel Colman, 1890

Brown ink drawing of two friezes: winged figures with a sea monster above, a seated woman and an ox below.

Two Friezes with Women and Sea Monsters

Felice Giani, 1820

Brown ink and wash drawing of a design for a square with an obelisk, domed classical palace, fountain, and small figures and

Design for a Square with a Palace

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of several classical mantelpiece designs with columns, capitals and moldings.

Designs for a Mantelpiece

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a wooded island in a calm lake with distant hills and clouds, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1870.

Wooded Island, Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Oil sketch of a glowing pink cumulus cloud over dark trees and hills at dusk, with a teal sky.

Nightfall near Olana

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of a vertical ornamental panel with acanthus scrolls and two winged putti among the foliage.

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, 1690

Brown ink and wash drawing of armored men and a draped standing woman around a nude figure, with a shield at lower left.

The Civil Law, after Perino del Vaga

Felice Giani, 1820

Oil sketch of green hills sloping to a blue sea with distant mountains, with pencil outlines of boats in the foreground.

Sea View from Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and white-heightened sketch of rolling hills and a building at right, with handwritten colour notes along the bottom.

The Roman Campagna from Isola Farnese, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a broad plain with distant hills and a rain shower under a heavy, warm-toned cloudy sky.

Rain over the Liguanea Plain, near Kingston, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a lake with mountains, a wooded shore, and a church steeple village across the water.

St. Gilgen by the Wolfgangsee, Austria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a sunset sky with streaked clouds glowing gold and orange above dark hills and a shadowed landscape.

Clouds at Sunset

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pen and brown ink design drawing of a classical interior with a frieze, three arched niches with figures, altar and incense.

Decorative Design

Pen and wash design for a neoclassical wall panel with urns, garlands, scrolls, and a central flower vase.

Design for a Wall Panel

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Ink and wash drawing of a pyramid-shaped mausoleum with a columned temple front, stepped terrace, and arcaded colonnade.

Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pen and wash drawing of a decorative frieze with putti, oval shields, a grotesque mask, and small landscape scenes.

Design for the Decoration of a Frieze

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Pencil sketch of a deep Andean valley with steep mountain slopes, rocky outcrops, and a winding path in the foreground.

A Valley in the Andes, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and brown ink sketch of the Virgin and Child with a saint, an ox, and a faint angel among clouds.

Sketches of the Virgin with the Child and a Saint

Fortunato Duranti, 1830

Pencil study of a dense cluster of trees with spreading branches on a sloping hillside, drawn on toned paper.

Study of Trees, North Conway, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Grey wash architectural drawing of a triumphal arch with columns, relief panels, statues and an ornate crest on top.

Elevation of a Triumphal Arch

Giuseppe Valadier, 1770

Brown ink and wash design for an oval escutcheon with scrolls, a shell base, and two armored figures holding spears.

Design for an Escutcheon

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Watercolor design of trailing blossom garlands and a scalloped lavender border for an embroidered overskirt.

Design for the Embroidery of the Lowe Part of an Overskirt of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1780

Pen and ink drawing of Penelope recognizing Ulysses, a seated woman reaching toward a bearded man beside a torch-bearing serv

Penelope Recognizes Ulysses

Felice Giani, 1800