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Pencil sketch of a sandy plain, mountain range, shrub, rocks and folding chair, with handwritten colour notes.

Sandy Plain and Mountain Range, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Sketch of sailing fishing boats on water near a rocky beach, with a group of people standing on the sand.

Beach Scene with People and Fishing Boats, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pen and ink drawing of a stage design showing a stone prison interior with a tower, arches, barred gate and hanging lantern.

Stage Design of a Prison Interior

Michelangelo Fasano, 1770

Sepia wash drawing of a desert landscape with rock formations and a lone figure with a staff walking across sand.

In the Desert, Arizona

Thomas Moran, 1870

Ink and wash drawing of a monumental Romanesque hall with arcaded galleries, columns, staircases and a vaulted ceiling.

Stage Design, Romanesque Hall

Antonio Liverani, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of a Gothic interior stage design with pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and draped curtains.

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and ridges receding into the distance, with handwritten notes above describing the landscape.

Landscape near San Miguel de Chimbo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of clouds and distant hills with trees and a small building on tan paper.

Cloud Sketch, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

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

Pen and watercolor drawing of a classical woman holding a garland carried by two winged putti, over a grid.

Wall painting

Mauro Gandolfi, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of two arched doorways with ornamented columns and entablatures.

Door frames giving impression of Renaissance works in ruins

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Loose sketch of sunlit mountain peak above a shadowed valley and dark evergreen trees under a pale sky.

Mountains near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of tall conifers along a wooded lakeshore with low hills and an empty sky behind them.

Wooded Lakeshore

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch on grey-blue paper of a palm tree and a tree trunk with branches, with handwritten labels.

Botanical Sketches from the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil sketch of a large white iceberg above dark green sea, with smaller icebergs in the foreground under a muted sky.

Icebergs of Twillingate, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of layered mountain ridges on tan paper, with handwritten notes about light in the lower right corner.

Mountain Landscape on the Road to Mocha, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and white highlight sketch of a river valley with a distant city skyline and handwritten colour notes.

View of Damascus from the Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a winding road beside a wooden fence leading into a valley with mountains and trees.

Winding Mountain Road in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of snowy Andean peaks under clouds, with handwritten notes reading Cayambe near Quito at lower left.

Cayambe, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a wooded ridge with sunlight rays on cream paper, with a faint blue outline at right.

Sunlight Cresting a Wooded Ridge

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Brown ink drawing of a classical tomb with an urn and bust, two draped women holding garlands, and an inscription on the plin

Sepulchral Monument for Poet Pietro Giodani

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Hazy Catskill mountains rise above a pastoral valley with white farmhouses, trees, and fields under streaked clouds.

The Catskill Mountains from the Village of Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Watercolor stage design of a Gothic hall with pointed arches, tracery vaulting, columns with gilded statues, and a glowing wi

Stage Design: Gothic Hall

Antonio Giuseppe Basoli, 1820

Graphite sketch on brown paper of a seated nude man with surrounding studies of hands, feet and legs.

Studies of a Seated Nude

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a building at upper left and mountain peaks below, with handwritten notes.

Sketches of a Building and Mountains, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Pencil sketch of an artist with an umbrella sketching outdoors beside loose scribbled foliage on a cream page.

Artist sketching outside

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated veiled woman surrounded by angels and musicians on clouds under a radiant arch.

Virgin Ascending with Concert of Angels

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a Mexican landscape with distant mountains, a sun in the sky, and foreground hills and shrubs.

Mexican Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Watercolor sketch of a carter and woman in an interior as a man in a red coat recoils, with a clock and chairs.

The Pious Carter

Robert Cruikshank, 1810