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Night seascape with a full moon behind dark clouds above a glowing horizon and a shadowy shoreline.

Moonlit Coast, Mt. Desert Island

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pale graphite and white-highlighted drawing of rolling hills, a winding path, a bright sea and sky, with a small tree at lowe

View of the Palisadoes and Kingston Harbor from Bellevue, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown wash drawing of the Virgin and Child on clouds with saints, a banner, and cherubs above and below.

The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints

Antonio de' Dominici, 1740

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a cloudy sky over a river horizon with wooded shoreline below.

Cloudy Sky, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Brown ink and wash drawing of a hall wall with arched niches, columns and draped swags.

Wall Elevation of a Hall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketch of a tall evergreen tree beside distant mountains and clouds, with handwritten notes on the landscape.

Mountains and an Evergreen, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Charcoal sketch of boats and a figure on wet sand at low tide under a cloudy sky.

Beach at Low Tide, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Painted sketch of a Victorian house with a turret among large trees above a sunlit lawn and stone wall.

House in Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Pencil sketch of a reclining nude woman with one arm raised and her head turned upward, on tan paper.

Female Nude

James Wells Champney, 1880

Brown ink sketch of figures gathered around a round well with water jars, camels, and architecture in the background.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Loose painted sketch of a frozen waterfall with snowy rock ledges, bare trees, and a distant wooded gorge in winter.

American Falls in the Snow, from Goat Island, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of sailboats and rowboats on calm water with a distant shoreline and lighthouse on the left.

Point of Land with a Lighthouse

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pencil sketch of a horse-drawn wagon with a star-marked canvas cover, horses and riders on a tan sheet.

Study for "The Wreck"

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a cow with head lowered beside a leafy plant with serrated leaves on cream paper.

Cow Scratching its Head and a Leafy Plant

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Watercolor elevation of a park colonnade with fluted columns, fountains with lion-head spouts, urns, and a garden view.

Design for a Park Colonnade

Josef Georg Kornhäusel, 1820

Graphite and white chalk sketch of surf breaking over rocks along a coastline under a pale sky.

Coastline at Grand Manan Island, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of jagged snowy Alpine peaks above a valley with a church spire at left.

Landscape in the Austrian Alps

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of a robed figure praying before an altar with flames, with figures and a column at left.

The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of two winged putti flying among clouds in a semicircular lunette design.

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

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and brown wash elevation of a two-storey building with arched openings, columns and small figures in upper niches.

Elevation of a Building, Possibly a Kaffeehaus or Museum

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketches of tropical plants, branches and epiphytes on tan paper, with handwritten color notes.

Thirteen Botanical Sketches from Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of several studies of a woman's arms, hands and feet in different poses on pale paper.

Studies of a Woman's Limbs

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

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

Grey wash drawing of an ornate Rococo tureen with a cherub finial, scrolled handles, garlands and mask motifs.

Tureen

Giovanni Bettati, 1740

Loose painted sketch of a brown wooded hillside above a pale green field under a light sky.

Wooded Hillside

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a deep valley with rocky cliffs, a distant plain and hills, small figures and a ruin in the foreground.

Near Jericho, On the Road to Jerusalem

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pencil sketch of rolling hills under a stormy sky on tan paper, with the handwritten words Thunder Storm in the upper right.

Thunderstorm, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil botanical sketches of leafy branches on cream paper, with handwritten notes describing young leaf colour and size.

Botanical Sketches, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of Adam and Eve in a landscape, with a winged figure above and a serpent at lower right.

Adam and Eve, The Temptation

Felice Giani, 1800

Sepia ink and wash elevation drawing of a symmetrical classical palace with a columned central portico and sculpted pediment.

Elevation of a Palace

Giuseppe Barberi, 1790