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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor sketch of two women in dark shawls and full skirts, one holding a gold fan, against a grey background.

Two Spanish Women Promenading

Constantin Guys, 1850

Pen and wash elevation drawing of a monument with a bust in a niche, pediment, pilasters and inscribed plinth.

Design for Monument

Felice Giani, 1800

Graphite study of a right hand seen from behind, with white highlights on toned paper and handwritten notes below.

Study of Right Hand of Alexander Hamilton

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate catafalque elevation with paired columns, carved figures, and a winged trumpeter atop.

Elevation of a Catafalque for a General

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Pencil sketch of an arched niche between two columns with studies of arches below, labeled Niches in Rock.

Niches in Rock

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of two ornate door bolts with foliate and rosette decoration, with a French caption between them.

Designs of Bolts

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of three ornamental pilaster strips with medallions, putti, birds and small figures.

Design for the Decorations of Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

White Heron, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of four haloed bearded figures in paired scenes, including an angel and writing evangelists.

The Four Evangelists, Study after Giambologna

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil drawing of an ornate scrolling ewer design with a bearded man at top, cherubs in side panels, and clouds at base.

Design for an Ewer

Johannes Lutma, 1630

Loose watercolor study of a pale temple interior with a tripod stand, bronze urn, wreath, and green garlands.

Study for the entrance of a temple, “Vintage Festival”, Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornate classical candlestick with an urn-shaped socket, pedestal, and foliate decoration.

Candlestick

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Painted sketch of a figure driving a sun chariot across a red dusk sky above a reflective lake and dark hills.

The Chariot of the Sun Fantasy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a young boy standing with a long pole across his shoulders, on aged paper with a museum stamp.

Boy

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of two girls seated on a rope swing hanging from a wooden beam, viewed from behind.

Two Girls on a Swing

Winslow Homer, 1870

Ink and wash drawing of a symmetrical earring design with pear-shaped gems and floral clusters on pale paper.

Design for an Earring

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, 1780

Pencil sketch of a gnarled bare tree above low shrubs and a leafy weed sprig, with handwritten labels on tan paper.

Gnarled Tree and Weed, Obersee, Germany

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman holding a standing nude child viewed from behind, on pale paper.

Study for a seated woman holding a child, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Brown wash architectural drawing of a doorcase with pilasters, a frieze of putti and an arched niche above the door.

Design for a Doorcase

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and brown ink drawing of an ornate cartouche with two putti, scrolling acanthus and a foliage garland around a blank pane

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

Francesco Bedeschini, 1690

Black chalk portrait study of a man with curled powdered hair, drawn with white highlights on tan paper.

Portrait of the Emperor Joseph II

Emperor Joseph II House of Habsburg-Lorraine, 1770

Pencil sketch of a kneeling haloed saint in a monk's robe gazing up at a cross in the clouds, with a rocky landscape.

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical altar design with columns, a pediment, statues, and a relief scene beneath a cross.

Design for a Main Altar

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Ink drawing of a rococo escutcheon shaped as a sail boat with mast, framed by scrolls and waves, signed Lajoüe.

Design for an Escutcheon in Form of Boat with Sail, for Recueil Nouveau de Differens Cartouches

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1730

Pencil sketch of a single slender pine tree with loose foliage, labeled Pemadumcook Pine in handwriting below.

Pemadumcook Pine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Brown wash drawing of two young girls in long dresses standing in a field under white clouds, one in a wide-brimmed hat.

Two Young Girls

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pen and pencil sketches on tan paper showing a floor plan with rooms and window details by Robert Frederick Blum.

Floor plans

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Pencil sketch of a woman in a full skirt seen from behind, with loose background hatching suggesting a room.

Woman at Piano

Winslow Homer, 1860

Grey wash drawing of a cherub writing on a globe beneath an empty oval rococo frame with scrollwork.

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730

Black chalk sketch on gray-blue paper of a standing monk in a hooded robe, one hand raised, seen from behind.

Sheet with Sketch of a Monk