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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil and chalk sketch of a low landscape under rain-streaked clouds, with handwritten notes along the bottom edge.

Landscape with Rain

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of Niagara Falls with cliffs, a treeline, and faint arcs of a double rainbow above the water.

Double Rainbow over Niagara Falls, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a veiled woman offering a bowl to a seated bearded man and a boy in classical dress.

Sketch for an Unused Scene for a Cartoon for Cotton Printing: La Vie de Bélisaire

B. M. Lebert, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged figure holding scales of Libra among swirling clouds, in a semicircular lunette format

Libra, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged figure riding a leaping goat-like creature inside a lunette-shaped frame.

Capricorn, Lunette for Ceiling of the Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Hazy brown and green mountain slopes with trees in the foreground under a pale, cloudy sky, painted in oil on paper.

Mountains of Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of classical ruins with columns, urns, and small figures bathing beneath trees.

Architectural Fantasy with Figures Bathing

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Pen and wash drawing of Piazza del Popolo in Rome with an obelisk, twin domed churches, and pedestrians in the foreground.

Piazza del Popolo, Rome

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, 1740

Brown ink drawing of a classical tomb with two draped figures, a lion, laurel wreath, cherubs and flaming urns.

Sepulchral Monument for Writer Vecei

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pencil sketch of a young girl with her hair in a bun, seated on a step in a long dress, looking toward the viewer.

Girl Seated on a Step

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pen and wash drawing of an overdoor design with a star medallion in a garland wreath above an arched pediment on pilasters.

Project for an Overdoor

Carlo Marchionni

Loose oil sketch of the Acropolis ruins on a hill under a hazy sun, with green slopes and a small white building in the foreg

View of the Acropolis, Athens

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketches of marching infantry soldiers and two standing figures in hats, with practice signatures written along the to

Sketches of Single Infantry Figures and Practice Signatures

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of two women in period dress, one seated and one standing, with downcast faces and loose drapery.

Standing Woman

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Sunset sketch of Mount Katahdin rising above a pink-reflecting lake with a dark wooded shore at right.

Mt. Katahdin, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Ink and wash drawing of classical ruins with fluted columns, an urn, and small figures among receding arches.

Ruin Fantasy

Louis Joseph le Lorrain

Pencil sketch of a wooden Swiss chalet with steep shingled roofs, carved gable trim, a balcony railing and a staircase.

Swiss Chalet

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil study of the Virgin and Child with a winged angel standing at left, drawn in loose sketched lines on pale paper.

The Virgin and Child with an Angel

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Pen and ink architectural drawing with a front elevation of an arched building above a circular ground plan and small figures

Project for a building; point de vue in a park

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of a candelabrum topped by a draped female figure on a classical pedestal with a wreath.

Candelstick

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil drawing of an ancient-style footed krater with scroll handles and a frieze of small classical figures.

A Krater

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of large broad leaves of a plant with handwritten notes, a small standing figure in a hat, and a hair sketch at

Large-Leaved Plant and a Figure, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and ink drawing of Apollo with a lyre and a winged Cupid in a classical riverside landscape with ancient buildings.

Apollo with lyre and Love

Brown wash drawing of a tiered funerary monument with mourning reliefs, a cross on top, and flaming urns on each side.

Funerarl Decorations for Louis XVI of France

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790

Pen and brown wash drawing of bearded Jupiter reclining on clouds, offering a cup to an eagle beside him.

Jupiter

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of two ornamental pedestals decorated with cherub heads, garlands and egg-and-dart moldings.

Pedestal

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Hazy brown and green valley with rounded mountains under a grey sky, with trees in the foreground at left.

Mountainous Landscape, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch on cream paper of a monkey's head with a crouching monkey study below and the word What written beside it.

Monkey

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Grey ink drawing of a domed burial chamber with arched niches, sarcophagi, fire urns and scrolled ornament.

Stage Design, Burial Chamber of Persian Kings

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1820

Pencil sketch sheet with small boats, figures, a sail, a church, and handwritten place notes around Pátzcuaro.

Sketches around Pátzcuaro, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880