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Brown paper sketch of snowy alpine peaks above a forested valley, drawn in graphite with white highlights.

The Watzmann and Königssee near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil frieze of winged putti riding dolphins over waves, with a bearded sea god's face at the right.

Frieze with Dolphins and Putto

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil sketch of figures on a beach beside an overturned boat, with a distant ship on the sea at upper right.

First Sketch for "The Wreck"

Winslow Homer, 1880

Profile Head of a Soldier

Winslow Homer, 1860

Charcoal sketch of fishermen climbing over the gunwales of a rowboat in shallow water.

Fishermen Climbing over Gunwales, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Loose pencil sketch on cream paper in an album, showing figures and angular forms, possibly soldiers at a meal.

Sketch of Soldiers Eating

Winslow Homer, 1860

Brown ink and wash design sketch of vaulted ceiling lunettes with seated figures, medallions, and ornamental panels.

Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a boy in a hat and a girl seated together on a plow handle in an open field.

Boy and Girl on a Plow

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil and white chalk sketches of wildflowers on tan paper, including thistle and goldenrod, with handwritten plant labels.

Sketches of Flowering Plants

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a classical interior with coffered vault, Corinthian columns, garland-bearing figures and a bust in an a

Project for a painted ceiling with an antique bust in an archway

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a coastal scene with seabirds, a distant island, waves, and handwritten colour notes on tan paper.

Coastal Views

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

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 brown wash design sketch of a bedroom interior with arched ceiling, pilasters, and ornamental panel details.

Design for Decorations for a Bedroom

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash elevation of a decorated room wall with a doorway, mirror, classical statues and relief panels.

Elevation of a Drawing Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch sheet of trees, palms, parasitic vines and a small monkey, with handwritten notes on foliage.

Botanical sketches with a Monkey, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of ornate metal purse frames with scrolls, mask heads, garlands and clasps.

Metal frames for Purses

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Red chalk sketch on grey-blue paper of a dog lying down with its head resting forward.

Sketch: A couching dog

Giovanni Maria Viani, 1700

Pen and brown wash drawing of six alcove elevations with draped curtains, columns, pediments and putti.

Six Designs for Alcove Elevations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Watercolor design for an embroidered waistcoat with floral bouquets, garlands and trailing vines on a pale ground.

Project number 1599 of the Fabrique de St. Ruf, for Gentleman's Embroidered Waistcoat

Mademoiselle Bailieu, 1770

Oil sketch of a glowing sunset sky with dark clouds over a horizon, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1880.

Cloud Sketch

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch on tan paper of arching tree branches and hanging leaves, signed Walter Shirlaw.

Project for a Decorative Design

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Brown wash drawing of a decorated living room wall elevation with two doorways, garlands, putti and oval medallions.

Elevation of a Living Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Oil sketch of billowing cumulus clouds lit warm against a pale blue sky, with bare paper below the horizon.

Cloud Study, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Studies of Head and Arms of a Child

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Loose brown sketch of two bedouin figures in robes and headcloths standing in a dark rocky cave opening, one holding a long s

Two Bedouins

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Study of Mrs. Winthrop for "Lady Washington's Reception Day"

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Three watercolor designs for altar candlesticks with blue globe bases, winged angels, lions and IHS monograms on a pale sheet

Three Designs for Altar Candlesticks for a Jesuit Church

Pietro Belli, 1820

Pencil sketch of two craggy cliffs rising above a low horizon, with the sky left largely blank.

Iceberg Panorama, Canada, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown wash design drawing of a sauce boat with grapevine decoration, a reclining winged female figure, and a pedestal base on

Design for a Sauce Boat

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Pencil sketch of a rainbow over a sea with a sailing ship, surrounded by figure studies and handwritten color notes.

Rainbow over the Mediterranean with Figure Sketches, Beirut, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Symmetrical pen and wash design for a plaster ceiling with central rosette, swags, ribbons and acanthus scrolls.

Design for a Plaster Ceiling

George Richardson, 1810

Pencil sketch of two winged, serpent-entwined ornamental masks with a small scroll study beneath them.

Mask with Two Heads; Mask with Two Serpent Heads

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and ink sketch with compartments showing Elijah under a tree, a banquet, the Annunciation, and Christ among angels.

Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left…

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Pen and ink sketch with brown wash of a seated artist at a table and figures in an interior with draped cloth.

Seated Artist

called Micco Spadaro Domenico Gargiulo, 1650

Watercolor of a Naples fruit stall with hanging grapes and melons, vendors, townspeople, children, and a dog on a street.

Water color; A fruit stall in Naples at Christmas

Saverio della Gatta, 1820

Pencil and watercolor botanical studies of asters, a pink thistle, clover leaves and seed pods on cream paper.

Studies of Meadow Flowers

Samuel Colman, 1880

Back of a mounted sheet with faint pencil sketch of figures in a sleigh or wagon, plus handwritten numbers.

Soldiers in a Sleigh or Wagon

Winslow Homer, 1860

Sketch of a steamship and a sailing ship on calm grey sea, with a small rowboat in the foreground under pale sky.

Ships in the North, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated veiled woman reading, with a winged putto holding a torch beside a lamp stand.

Vigilance

Felice Giani, 1810

Ink and wash drawing of draped figures in a classical interior within an octagonal frame, with a standing attendant holding a

Virgil Reading the Eulogy of Marcellus to Lucretia and Augustus, Palazzo Cavina, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor design for an embroidered waistcoat with purple and yellow borders, green and red floral tassels along the hem.

Design for Embroidered Waistcoat, pattern 1919 of Fabrique de St. Ruf

L. V, 1780

Pen and ink drawing of Achilles learning lyre from centaur Chiron, with seated women and a distant landscape.

Achilles Taught by Centaur Chiron How to Play Lyre

Felice Giani, 1790

Pencil and wash sketch of mounted cavalry soldiers with lances and a bugler by a waterfront with ships.

General McClellan's Sixth Cavalry Regiment, Embarking at Alexandria for Old Point Comfort

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of figures and a crowd on pale paper, with the handwritten words "A Call for Volunteers" beneath.

A Call for Volunteers

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of marching infantry soldiers and drummers in the foreground, with a column of troops receding across an open f

Marching Infantry Column

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing with four panels of putti, a lion, an eagle, and allegorical figures for ceiling decoration.

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Four Allegorical Representations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a deathbed scene with angels playing lute and flute above, putti on clouds, and kneeling mourne

Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, Death of St. Caterina Vigri

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1690

Brown ink and wash drawing of a shaggy goat with curved horns standing in shallow water near rocks.

Study of a Goat

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical underworld scene with a enthroned figure, robed attendants, and columns.

Hades; Persephone in the Underworld (Offering to Proserpine)

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a rocky coast with boulders, a flat shoreline, three small figures, and distant buildings under a pale sky.

Study for "Rocky Coast and Gulls"

Winslow Homer, 1860

Ink and pencil study sheet with scrolled cartouche, medallion, crossed staffs and leafy ornaments on cream paper.

Studies of Masts and Ornaments

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin handing the infant Christ to a kneeling woman, with angels and putti among clouds.

Design for a Monochrome Wall Painting, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, St. Caterina Vigri Receives the Babe…

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1690

Ink and wash floor plan showing an octagonal room and a rectangular room with ornamental panels and a handwritten Italian ins

Centerpiece for the Ambassador of the Maltese Order

Giuseppe Barberi, 1760

Painting of a large grey iceberg floating in green water under a pale sky, with a distant brown shoreline on both sides.

Gray Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of workers operating silk reeling frames in a workshop interior.

The Reeling of Silk

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of four ornate chalices, one supported by a standing male figure holding the bowl overhead.

Four chalices

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Oil sketch of blue icebergs under an orange dusk sky above dark water, painted by Frederic Edwin Church in 1850.

Iceberg at Midnight, Labrador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor and ink sketch of a brown horse pulling a pale blue brougham carriage with a driver in a top hat.

The Blue Brougham

Constantin Guys, 1850

Tethered Donkey and a Style of Fence, South America

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of drooping bromeliad blossoms on branching stems, with handwritten Jamaica inscription on pale paper.

Blossoms of the Bromelia Pinguin, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a plantain plant with broad leaves, a tree study, and a rocky shrub, with handwritten colour notes.

Botanical Sketches, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a peacock with a long tail in a garden with trees and shrubs.

Peacock in a Garden

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Brown ink drawing of a leopard in an arena beside an open cage, with armed men and crowded spectators in the tiered seats abo

The Emperor Commodus Killing a Leopard

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Study of a Woman in Profile

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Painting of a dense cluster of wildflowers with red, white, and yellow blooms and green grasses on a brown brushed ground.

Wildflowers

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and grey wash drawing of three ornate classical pedestal designs with cherubs, sphinxes, garlands and reliefs.

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Graphite sketch of sailors hauling rigging and working on a pitching ship deck amid spray and waves.

Hard-a-Port

Winslow Homer, 1900

Brown ink and wash stage design of a palace entrance with a large arch, tall column, staircase and statues.

Stage Design: Palace Entrance with Arch

Giovanni Antonio Galliari, 1740

Watercolor and pencil study of red cardinal flower spray with sketched blossoms and vase outlines on cream paper.

Cardinal Flower

Samuel Colman, 1880

Pencil and white chalk study of a seated woman with closed eyes and a separate study of an outstretched hand on blue paper.

Study for "Mercy's Dream"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Four-panel brown ink sketch of men fighting a bull and a dragon in arched and wooded settings.

Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [above left]; Theagenes taming the Bull in Ethiopia [below left]; Dragon Hunt i…

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil study of bamboo stalks and leaves on pale paper, with handwritten colour notes at lower left.

Bamboo, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown wash drawing of an elevated drawing room wall with two doorways, panels, a central pedestal with statues, and console t

Elevation of a Drawing Room Entrance Wall with Alternative Suggestions

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a soldier with a pack on a cream sheet, with loose hatched strokes at upper right, mounted in an album.

Soldier with Pack

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo salon wall with a paneled door, fountain niche, urn and ornate carved decoration.

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Brown ink and wash sketch of four ornamental designs: a cartouche, draped panel, laurel label, and carved frieze motif.

An escutcheon, a trophy, a label, a decorative motif for a frieze

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Pen and wash design sheet showing a symmetrical set of neoclassical silver tableware with labeled pieces and figural decorati

Design for a Set of Silver Tableware

Pietro Belli, 1810

Pencil sketch of icebergs on calm water with small figures on an ice shelf at lower right.

Icebergs near Belle Isle, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil study of a reclining woman's bare feet on pale paper, with soft shading and faint grass strokes at the left.

Study of the Feet of a Reclining Woman

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Black chalk study of two right hands in different positions on tan toned paper, with white highlights and a signature.

Study: Two right hands, of a woman

Carlo Bononi, 1600

Pencil drawing of a draped white cloth with soft folds and hatched shading over a rounded form.

Drapery Study for "Communion of the Sick"

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Faint pencil sketch of a vessel with rigging and two small soldiers on a pale sheet in a grey album.

Vessel with Two Soldiers

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch sheet of sheep in various poses, grazing and resting on the ground, by Walter Shirlaw.

Sketches of Sheep

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch of hands with handwritten colour notes and an inscription on cream paper, study for a portrait.

Sketch for Portrait of Dr. Muhlenberg, Notes on Hugh Baxter

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Sketch of three Middle Eastern men in robes and red caps, one standing and two seated with a rifle and sword, on brown wash.

Three Bedouin Men

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and watercolor design of an illusionistic gilded ceiling with putti, clouds, draped fabric and figures on a balustrade.

Ceiling Design

Philippe Canot, 1710

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated draped figure holding a scroll, with sketched heads at upper right.

Five Figures from Parnassus by Raphael Sanzio

Felice Giani, 1810

Sepia ink and wash sheet with a draped figure bracket and three curved bands decorated with flowers and rosettes.

Door Knocker and Metal Purse Frames

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a decorative wall dado with garlands, urns, and a central framed panel.

Dado with alternative suggestions

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a large iceberg rising from the horizon on tan paper, with the handwritten note 'July 15th' below.

The Last Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Painting of a sunlit cumulus cloud rising over a calm sea horizon, with pink wispy clouds in a pale blue sky.

Clouds at Sea

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Brown wash design for spandrel decoration showing a bearded man with a raised sword and a child within arched frames.

Design for Spandral Decoration

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

Pencil sketch of rocky peaks and a shallow pool of water in a rugged landscape.

Still life

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Pencil sketch of canoes on water, a man rowing in a hat, and a seated figure with a pot on a bank.

Sketches of Canoes and Figures, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil and wash sketch of a hooded woman seated on a grassy hillside, looking to the side under an open sky.

Girl Seated on a Hillside

Winslow Homer, 1870