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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Muted study of a painted ceiling section with framed panels, scrollwork cartouches, and a reclining figure.

Study for Section of Ceiling Ornament

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Ink and wash drawing of a male figure supporting a three-cup candlestick on raised arms, standing on a plinth.

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1820

Red and graphite chalk drawing of a nude woman with raised arm and long hair, with a faint sketch of an arm at upper right.

Female Nude with Left Hand Raised

Daniel Huntington, 1830

Sepia drawing of several ornamental trophy designs with floral garlands, fruit swags, birds, bows, arrows and musical instrum

Designs for Trophies

Pierre Ranson, 1800

Pencil sketch of a young woman's face with tilted head and upward gaze on toned paper.

Sketch for a Bacchante

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pencil drawing of ruined stone walls and arches among trees, with mountains and a winding path under a cloudy sky.

Ruins at a Lake

Eugène Edouard Soulès, 1830

Pencil and white highlight sketch of a smoking volcano above rugged ridges, with plant studies and handwritten color notes.

Sangay Volcano, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a nude Venus holding grapes while a small Cupid clings to her shoulder.

Venus and Cupid

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Brown and white drawing of a young woman in a long dress seated on a grassy slope under clouds, with wildflowers.

Seated Girl

Winslow Homer, 1880

Small sketch of fern fronds in green and grey on a brown ground, inscribed Jamaica AUG 65.

Fern Sketch, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of people gathered at a stone fountain with a carved lion-head spout, with a figure bending over the water.

Fragment of Temple of Vesta

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

Pen and ink design of a vertical panel with an oval medallion, urn, garlands, crossed arrows and scrolling foliage.

Project for the decoration of a vertical panel

Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical pedestal with a laurel wreath medallion and hanging garlands.

Pedestal of a column

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil and white chalk study of a woman's bust and shoulders in a draped garment with lace trim, on cream paper.

Bust of a Woman, Possibly Study for Portrait of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Pencil sketch sheet with several studies of men in hats and jackets on a tan paper, some with handwritten notes.

Men

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Oil sketch of a snow-capped Andean peak over brown hills, green fields, thatched huts, and a figure in red on a path.

Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a thatched church with a bell tower and fence, a small figure in a hat at right, labeled Church at Naré.

Church at Puerto Naré, Rio Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown wash drawing of a church doorway elevation with a coffered vault and two niches holding statues.

The Elevation of a Church Doorway

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Pencil sketch of a wooded hillside under sky, with handwritten notes on color such as clear blue and smoky yellow.

Wooded Island, near Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Brown wash drawing of winged angels holding a draped cloth around an empty cartouche, with a hooded figure and skull above.

Design for a cloth as place of an inscription

Carlo Marchionni, 1780

Pen and ink sketch of a lunette with two reclining figures flanking a standing draped figure, labeled Apollo Mnemosyne Giove.

Design for Lunette with Apollo, Mnemosyne and Jove

Felice Giani, 1810

Oil sketch of a pale iceberg on a dark sea under a peach sunset sky, with a small ice flower splash at left.

Iceberg and Ice Flower, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch sheet with a reclining bull, a bull's head, a tree stump, a rock, and dated handwritten notes.

Bull and Landscape Sketches, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Painted view of a green alpine lake with a rowboat at lower left, framed by forested mountains and rocky cliffs.

Alpine Lake, Bavaria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a nude male figure with curly hair standing before classical arches and architecture, with small figures in

Saint Sebastian

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of layered cliffs and rolling hills in a canyon landscape, with a handwritten note in the lower right.

Canyon and Cliffs, Palestine or Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor elevation of a domed neoclassical oratory with a Corinthian portico and flanking pavilions under a blue sky.

Design for an Oratory (Memorial Chapel)

Giacomo Quarenghi, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornate organ design with pipes, draped swags, cherubs and a finial on top.

Design for an Organ

Giuseppe Barberi, 1810

Pencil sketch of layered mountains and an elevated plain with handwritten annotations and numbered features.

View of an Elevated Plain from Mojarras, Colombia, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of three sailing boats: a schooner on calm water, a small sloop, and a grounded boat on rocks.

Three Sketches of Schooners

Winslow Homer, 1880