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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of tall eroded rock formations and cliffs above a foreground ridge and gully, with handwritten notes.

Rio Virgin River with Large Rock Formations

Thomas Moran, 1870

Pencil sketch of an old olive tree beside a stone column and an arched entablature with scalloped detail.

Old Olive Tree and Entablature, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil drawing of a rocky brook with boulders, trees, and distant mountains under a pale cloudy sky.

View of Moat Mountain from Wildcat Brook, Jackson, New Hampshire, Looking Southwest

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil sketch of a flat landscape with windmills and small buildings along a far bank, with open water in the foreground.

Landscape

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Oil sketch of a rocky desert valley with steep cliffs, a carved rock facade, and small figures on the valley floor.

El Yemen Valley, Palestine (Israel)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink drawing of figures in procession offering garlands to a nude statue before a classical temple and rotunda.

Worship of Venus in a Classical Landscape

Felice Giani, 1810

Horizontal strip of grey and black wash showing a lake shoreline, dark water and a distant tree line under pale sky.

Fragment of "Trout Fishing, Lake St. John, Quebec"

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch on tan card showing a horizon with a small building at left, trees at right, and handwritten color notes above.

Building and Trees in Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Loose pencil sketch of a landscape with a central tree trunk and scribbled shrubs on a cream sheet.

Landscape

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and ink design for a stage curtain showing a crowd gathered before a classical temple beneath clouds.

Design for Stage Curtain: Hercules Receives Gifts from Nymphys after his Victory over the River God Achelous

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a hilly ridge with clouds and handwritten colour notes on grey paper, Jamaica, 1860.

Mountain Ridge with Clouds, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Faint pencil sketch of a rough outdoor scene with a fence line on a cream sheet mounted in a red-bound album.

Field Kitchen Fire

Winslow Homer, 1860

Grey ink and wash drawing of a rocky valley with tall cliffs, trees, ruined walls and a building on a ridge.

Stage Design, Rocky Valley with Buildings

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a wooded island in a calm lake with distant hills and clouds, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1870.

Wooded Island, Lake Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Grey watercolor of a seated man in a hat looking over a lake toward wooded hills, with a fallen log in the foreground.

Mountain River or Lake

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil study of a dense cluster of trees and foliage on tinted paper, with handwritten inscription in lower right corner.

Study of Trees, Geneva

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Pencil sketch of a deep Andean valley with steep mountain slopes, rocky outcrops, and a winding path in the foreground.

A Valley in the Andes, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and wash drawing of a windswept tree beside a classical colonnaded building with statues and a bridge.

Tree in Landscape with Building

Carlo Marchionni, 1770

Pencil sketch of a river valley with wooded hills and ruined castle towers on a rocky height at right.

A Valley in Mountainous Country

Eugène Edouard Soulès

Pencil sketch of a hilltop town, a carved shell-like stone fragment in an arch, and a stepped stone block, with handwritten l

Landscape and Architecture Sketches, as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a leafless tree with spreading bare branches, with handwritten colour notes along the bottom edge.

Study of a Dead Oak Tree

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Brown ink landscape drawing of figures crossing a wooden bridge over a stream, with trees, a distant house, and clouds.

Landscape with Bridge

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil sketch of a charred, broken tree trunk lying over a pale granite boulder, with handwritten notes.

Broken Tree upon a Boulder

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Pencil sketch of the Franconia Range with a snow-capped peak rising above rolling hills on pale paper.

Franconia Range Lafayette with Snow from Jefferson Hill

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Pencil drawing of a fortified town on a terrace with arched walls, trees, a paved path, and a lake with hills at left.

A Fortified Town Overlooking a Lake

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown and gold landscape sketch of sunlit mountain peaks under a dramatic cloudy sky, with a leaning tree in the foreground.

Overlook Mountain with Snow, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a jagged mountain peak over rolling hills and boulders, with a handwritten caption below.

Chocorua, After the Picnic at Lake

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Watercolor sketch of cypress tree trunks and green foliage in a grove, with warm light on the ground, on tan paper.

Cypress Trees, Chapultepec, Mexico

Samuel Colman, 1890

Pencil sketch of layered mountains and a lake on tan paper, with handwritten notes about light and shadow.

Mountains and Lake, Part Two

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a wooded landscape with tall trees, undergrowth, and a winding path on aged paper.

Wooded Scene - West Campton, New Hampshire

Daniel Huntington, 1850