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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Brown ink drawing of a seated robed figure reading a book on clouds, with two winged angels holding palm fronds.

St. Paul in the Clouds with Angels and Palms

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and grey wash drawing of a landscape with ruins, a palm tree and a standing figure, set within an ornate decorative frame

Study for The Fleece of Gideon, Plate 375, Physica Sacra

Johann Melchior Füssli, 1720

Pencil sketch of a rocky plain with boulders, a lone tree, and distant mountains, with handwritten colour notes.

Mountainous Landscape with Boulders, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Trinity above apostles Peter and Paul, with angels, a cross, and clouds.

The Trinity and the Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul

Gaetano Gandolfi, 1770

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a graveyard with tombstones, a pond with reeds, and a church spire under cloudy sky.

Graveyard

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1870

Pencil sketch of a seated man on a boat deck beside a mast, with sea and rigging sketched in the background.

Man on Deck with Ship's Bell

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pen and brown wash drawing of three ornamental pillar capitals with rams, a mask, scrolls, and a griffin-like figure.

Three capitals of pillars, with alternative suggestions

Filippo Marchionni, 1800

Pen and watercolor design for a ceiling with a central archer goddess, putti, urns, and rococo scrollwork in red and blue.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Hubert François Gravelot, 1740

Pencil and white-heightened sketch of tree roots, branches, wispy clouds and wildflowers on tan paper, by Frederic Edwin Chur

The Canadian Bank, Niagara Falls, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor design for an oblong panel with an urn, scrolls, ribbons, a caduceus and floral cornucopias on a pale ground.

Project for the Decoration of an Oblong Panel

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, 1780

Muted sketch of a mountain rising above a still lake with dark trees along the shore and soft clouds overhead.

Mt. Katahdin from Katahdin Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of rococo scrollwork, acanthus leaves, and a cartouche on a pale sheet.

Decoration of an Oblong Panel and an Escutcheon

Filippo Marchionni

Pencil sketch of a lake with wooded shore in front and mountains behind, with a small boat on the water.

Landscape Sketch, Walker Pond, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Girl Holding a Shell

Winslow Homer, 1870

Grey wash drawing of Vernal Falls cascading past a domed granite peak, with pines and a rocky stream in Yosemite.

Vernal Falls, Yosemite

Thomas Moran, 1900

Architectural elevation drawing of a symmetrical library facade with columns, tall windows and a central entrance on tan pape

Study for the Fifth Avenue Elevation of the New York Public Library

Whitney Warren Jr, 1890

Pen and brown wash drawing of a church facade with pediment, central urn niche, flanking statues and columns at the doorway.

Church, Monte Vergine

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded herm figure on a scrolled pedestal topped by an Ionic capital, with handwritten notes.

Project for a Herm

Domenico Peruzzini, 1720

Pale sketch of the American Falls at Niagara with snowy rocks, bare trees and mist, drawn in graphite and white highlights.

The American Falls in Snow, Niagara Falls, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a man seated on a ship deck, head raised, with diagonal rigging lines in the upper right.

Man on a Deck Striking a Ship's Bell

Winslow Homer, 1900

Grey wash drawing of a woodland bacchanal with satyrs, nymphs, a statue, wine jars and grapes beneath trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1770

Ink and wash design study with an octagonal central panel of classical figures and a cupid, flanked by two round roundels.

Peace, Vaulted Panel, Sala d' Onore and the Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of clouds and horizon with handwritten color notes such as smoky green, brick red, and brilliant orange.

Evening Rain over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pen and brown wash drawing of an ornamental tablet frame with a pediment, shell motifs, urns, and a laurel wreath.

Design for the Frame of a Tablet

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and wash design drawing of a lidded tureen with lion finial, snake handles and grapevine decoration on a footed base.

Design for a Tureen

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate door knocker with acanthus scrolls, plus two rosette knob designs.

Designs for two doorknockers

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Pencil cloud study on aged paper with numbered tonal notes and handwritten annotations about grey clouds.

Clouds over Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pen and ink drawing of a helmeted warrior in a chariot dragging a nude body past onlookers at a city wall.

Achilles Drags the Body of Hector

Felice Giani, 1790

Pen and brown wash drawing of a church facade with a dome, columned doorway, pediment and niche statues.

Elevation of a church

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of hilly terrain with trees and handwritten color notes, labeled April.

Mountain Pass, Lebanon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860