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Watercolor design of a gilded candelabrum with two green classical figures beside a patterned pedestal.

Design for Two Candlesticks

Tournai Lefebvre Manufactory, 1800

Pencil and white-chalk study of a young woman with lowered eyes and hair swept back, with handwritten notes at the bottom.

Sketch of Carolina Palombo, Study for "The Goldsmith's Daughter"

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Graphite study on gray paper of a seated woman in an off-shoulder dress, head bowed, hands resting in her lap.

Study of Seated Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Four brown ink and wash designs of draped bed canopies and curtains set within alcoves, arranged in a grid.

Four Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketch of a Coney Island beach scene with small figures, flagpoles, tents, and bathers on tan paper.

Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Sepia ink and wash drawing of reclining Bacchus with grapevines, a satyr and a panther in an oval frame.

Bacchus, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Ink sketch in two registers: robed figures and animals above, a crowd confronting a satyr among rocks below.

Apollonius meeting the People and Animals of Ethiopia [above]; Apollonius Quelling the Ghost of a Satyr in Ethiopia […

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Colored design drawing of an Egyptian-style vase clock flanked by green sphinxes, red columns and caryatid figures.

Design for a Vase Clock in Egyptian Style

Luigi Righetti, 1810

Pen and wash design drawing of a double door with classical relief scenes, garland swags, and laurel pilasters.

Design for a Double Door with Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Brown ink drawing of a winged classical figure inscribing text on an oval shield beside a pedestal and urn.

A Winged Victory Inscribing the Date 1805 on a Shield

Felice Giani, 1800

Ink and wash design drawing of a table clock with a laurel wreath, fluted column, garlands and urn finials.

Design for a Table Clock

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Red chalk sketch of several figures on a pale sheet, framed by layered green, yellow and black borders.

Figural Studies

Flemish Gaspar van Wittel, 1710

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures on a balcony under a colonnade, with a woman carrying a basket and an arched bridge bel

Study of the Visitation, After Peter Paul Rubens

Felice Giani, 1810

Graphite study of a woman's bare arm bent at the elbow with the hand resting below, on grey toned paper.

Study of an Arm for Portrait of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Watercolor design of a wall with gold patterned wallpaper, a blue border, and a floral lacquered commode topped by a porcelai

Section of a wall

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Anatomical Study of Male Nude

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Pencil sketch of a circular Navajo war shield with feathers and handwritten color notes labeling light blue, red, and dark ar

War Shield of Navajo

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Study of Seated Woman for "Titian Showing the Entombment to Charles V and Clement VII"

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Pen and ink sketch of robed religious figures around a central standing figure beneath a small glory motif, within an archite

Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome

Francesco Manno, 1800

Pencil sketch of a woman and child in capes and bonnets with handwritten clothing notes on cream paper.

Woman and child

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and brown wash design with two symmetrical ornamental panels featuring oval landscape medallions, scrollwork, putti and d

Design for the Decoration of a Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Pencil sketch of a tree trunk entwined by strangler fig roots and vines, with branches, a cactus and small plants.

Strangler Fig and its Host, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Two chalk studies of draped standing women on toned paper, one in red-brown and one in grey with white highlights.

Study for standing woman, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long dress with studies of hands and handwritten color notes on the page.

Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes Standing, Studies of Arm and Hands

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Chalk study on blue paper of a kneeling veiled woman with drapery and a separate head of a young woman.

Studies: The Cloth of a Kneeling Woman. The Head of a Young Woman

Carlo Maratti, 1650

Pencil sketch of a table with fluted legs in an interior, with windows and cabinetry sketched at left and right.

Table

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and ink design sheet with scrolling acanthus, a lion head, winged creature and cherubs in a double border.

Recto, Design for a door handle with alternative suggestions

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Charcoal study of a rescuer in a cap holding an unconscious woman beneath a hanging rope and life ring.

Study for "The Life Line"

Winslow Homer, 1880

Grey ink wash drawing of a draped female figure holding a staff beside a celestial globe on a pedestal.

Urania

Filippo Marchionni, 1780

Watercolor of a small boat's stern and oars in rough teal sea with white-capped waves, by Winslow Homer.

Study for "The Gulf Stream"

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pen and brown ink drawing of two roundels: a winged victory driving a horse chariot, and a winged victory crowning seated Min

A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning Minerva; two roundels

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen drawing of a neoclassical plaster ceiling design with central rosette, laurel wreaths, scrolling borders, and a bay eleva

Design for a Plaster Ceiling with Bay

James Wyatt, 1810

Loose brown ink sketch of a seated woman conversing with a standing draped woman, with hatched background strokes.

Figural Sketch with a Seated Girl Conversing with a Standing Girl

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1800

Painted study of a slender palm tree on a grassy slope with rocks and shrubs, against a brown, brushy background.

Palm Trees, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing with an empty ornamental cartouche above and a hunter on horseback attacked by snakes below.

Title page for a Series of Hunting Scenes [above]; Unexperienced Hunter attacked by Snakes [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil drawing of a tall elm tree with a full canopy beside a small cottage and a hill, with handwritten notes below.

Elm near Pitman's, Bartlett, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing of two scenes: Salome dancing at Herod's banquet above, and Salome presenting John the Baptist's h

Salome Dancing during the Banquet of Herod [above]; Salome Offering Saint John's Head to her Parents [below]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Grey wash drawing of a church doorway draped with curtains, topped by a crowned coat of arms and garlands, with small figures

Doorway of San Salvatore in Lauro with Decoration for the Funeral of King Frederick August III of Poland, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, 1760

Pencil sketch of a young girl in a bonnet and checked dress holding a pail, standing among loose grass strokes.

Girl with a Pail

Winslow Homer, 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of three classical scenes of warriors and women in interiors, with Italian captions.

Agamemnon Refuses to Liberate Chryseis; Minerva Appears to Achilles; The Abduction of Briseis: Galerie d'Iliad, Palaz…

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a leafless tree with bare, twisting branches on pale paper, with the date April 1845 written above.

Leafless Bough of a Tree, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Sepia ink sketch of a mounted battle scene above and a warrior on an elephant among soldiers below.

Sketchbook Page: Death of Flaminius in the Battle of Trasimeno; Annabelle Loses an Eye in the Swamps of Fiano, Tuscany

Felice Giani, 1800

Loose oil sketch of an autumn meadow with red and orange wildflowers, rust-colored grasses, and pale white blooms.

Meadow in Autumn, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Studies of a Right Foot, Two Heads

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pen and ink design drawing of a candelabra with a triangular plan and figures supporting the stem beside a column.

Design for a Candelabra

Carlo Marchionni

Pencil sketch of a tall slender pine tree beside rocks on aged paper, with handwritten notes at lower left.

Study of Pine Tree, Shawangunk Mountains

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Pen and ink design sketch of a chandelier, garlands, and two consoles with pedestal in a neoclassical interior.

Project for Two Consoles

Pencil drawing of four decorative vases with snake and swan handles, classical figure reliefs and floral ornament.

Four Vases

Felice Giani, 1780

Loose pencil sketch of lilac branches with buds and flower sprays, labeled 'lilac', on cream paper.

Lilac

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and ink drawing with grey wash of an ornate clock case design, held up by a muscular Atlas-like figure above a pedestal.

Design for a Clock Case

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1700

Brown wash drawing of a classical entrance wall with a fireplace, Corinthian columns, and a relief panel above the mantel.

Entrance wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Graphite sketch of a standing female nude with curled hair, one arm across her body and the other extended to the right.

Female Nude, Study for Portrait of Mrs. Henry Schieffelin

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Brown ink and wash sketch of six ornate doorknob designs with scrolls, foliage, a grotesque mask and a female figure.

Six doorknobs

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Red chalk study of a woman in a flowing dress raising a tambourine overhead, with loose drapery lines.

Study for Girl with Tambourine, “Vintage Festival”, Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Graphite drawing of a female torso from a plaster cast standing on a pedestal, shaded against a gray background.

Female Torso From a Plaster Cast

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Ink drawing of a fantastic branch with ferny leaves, ruffled blossoms tied with ribbon bows, and twisting stems on paper.

Bough of a fantastic tree

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Grey wash drawing of a priest at an altar with kneeling worshippers, while heavenly figures and angels appear in clouds above

Vision During a Mass

Belisario Corenzio, 1640

Pen and brown ink sketch of the Adoration of the Shepherds with a kneeling woman, an infant, crowded figures and a standing d

Adoration of the Shepherds; Arcangle St. Michael after Raphael; St. Margarite after Raphael; Aloof de Wignancourt by…

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a gnarled, leafless tree with twisting branches crossing diagonally on pale paper.

Gnarled Dead Tree

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor and pencil study of cow legs, hooves, and a horned cow head on a grey-green sheet.

Sketches from Narragensett, Rhode Island

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil sketch of tall grass stalks with dark seed heads and handwritten notes reading last grass stalks, deep madder.

Madder

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Figural Sketches

Carlo Marchionni, 1770

Soft pencil sketch of a man in a hat and coat standing on a street beside another figure and a dark doorway.

Man

Robert Frederick Blum, 1900

Pencil sketch of a tiered fountain with winged figures supporting its basin, with small figures in a colonnaded courtyard.

Fountain Supported by Three Harpies and Three Groups of People in Garden in Villa Albani, Rome

Felice Giani, 1820