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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of a bird wing with labeled feather groups and anatomical annotations on a beige paper sheet.

Study of a Wing

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Etching of sheep grazing on a hillside with a dog standing watch on the ridge under a hatched, overcast sky.

Le Guet du Chien

Charles-François Daubigny, 1850

Engraved frieze of hunters on horseback and foot attacking lions, an elephant, hounds and winged creatures beneath a tree.

Wild Animal Hunt (frieze)

Etienne Delaune, 1570

Pencil study of a sparrow wing with handwritten labels naming its feather groups, on a pale paper sheet.

Study of a Sparrow's Wing

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Black and white ornamental frieze with two birds perched on arches, flanked by scrolling foliage, flowers and wreath motifs.

Frieze with Birds, Flowers, Wreaths and Scrolls

Theodor Bang, 1590

Engraving of a braided horse labeled Saxo walking on a hill, with a walled town and river boats behind it.

A Saxon Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Pencil sketch of a bird wing with handwritten colour notes such as cerulean and greenish on cream paper.

Sketch of a Wing

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Etching of three long-tailed ducks flying low over rough sea under a rainy, cloudy sky with a distant shoreline.

Old Squaws

Frank Weston Benson, 1910

The Rhinoceros

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of two lions caught in a net as shielded hunters with torches approach through a palm landscape.

Lion trap

Flemish Jan Collaert II, 1600

Etching of a large elephant in light facing robed, bearded men holding a scroll in shadow at left.

Otras Leyes por El Pueblo (Other Laws for the People)

Francisco Goya, 1810

Etching of a striped cat crouched near an archway while a small mouse watches from the left edge.

The Large Cat

Netherlandish Cornelis Visscher, 1650

Engraving of a rearing horse with a braided tail against a distant landscape of hills and buildings, labelled Danus.

A Danish Horse, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Etching of a winged dragon bearing the Virgin and Child on its back, with a banner above and flames from its mouth.

Parade Float with the Virgin and Child riding a Dragon, plate 8 from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno…

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, 1610

Woodblock print of grazing horses and handlers in a green field beside a blue sea, with a large pine tree at center.

Chiryu, The Horse Fair, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830

Engraving of two horses, labeled Romanus and Equus Matronalis, before a distant walled city with a bridge.

A Roman Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraving of a rearing horse with a bridle, labeled GALLICVS, with a city and hills in the background.

A French Horse, from the first set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraving of fighting horses rearing in a hilly landscape with a wolf at lower left and trees at upper right.

Fighting Horses, from the fourth set of "Equile Joannis Austriaci"

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600