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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Gray monochrome painting of a rooster and hens on a diagonal wooden roost, with chicks gathered in straw below.

Cock and Chickens

Walter Shirlaw, 1880

Study of a Mule

Samuel Colman, 1870

Ink and wash sketch of a bobolink in flight above reeds and a pool of water, on tan paper.

Bobolink

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Pencil sketches of a kingfisher wing's outside and inside, with handwritten color notes labeling the feathers.

Wing of a Black-capped Kingfisher

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Pen drawing of a Tammany tiger on New York City skyline watching Teddy Roosevelt hunt a mountain lion in Colorado.

Tammany Tiger: "Teddy's going to hunt mountain lions so that gives me a vacation"

John Tinney McCutcheon, 1900

Sketch of a song sparrow perched on a branch above a nest with eggs among leaves, drawn on brown toned paper.

Song Sparrow

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Pencil sketches of four bird wings on cream paper, annotated with handwritten color notes like greenish, blue, and light red.

Sketches of Wings

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

Pencil sketch of three elephants, one with long tusks, moving through tall grass beneath trees.

Ivory at Home

Frederic Villiers, 1890

Pencil and charcoal sketch of three young birds with open beaks in a grass nest on brown paper.

Birds

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

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

Engraved rococo cartouche design with a grotesque mask, winged griffins, an oval cameo portrait and scrolling ornament.

Design for Cartouche with Cupid, a Horse and Spears from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1790

The Crackle, or Crow-Blackbird

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

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

Engraved page of six rococo vegetable ornament designs around a central title cartouche, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740.

Ornament Design with Two Dead Birds lying on Acanthus Branch, from Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], p…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Grayscale sketch of wolves attacking a steer on an open plain, with a pack running in the background under a hazy sky.

Lobo Showed the Pack How to Kill Beef

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

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

Engraving of a hare and a lion made of curling ornamental leaf scrollwork, running across a hatched landscape.

Lion and Hare Composed of Ornamental Leaf-Work, from Neue-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen (New Designs for Ornaments…

Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel, 1690

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

Grayscale illustration of a dark bird pecking at shells and pebbles among grass and leaves, with a handwritten signature belo

The Handle of a China Cup, the Gem of the Collection

Ernest Thompson Seton, 1890

Symmetrical engraved grotesque with a central urn, dolphins, winged lions, putti and acanthus scrolls.

Grotesque with Dolphins and Winged Lions

Master of the Die, 1530

Etching of a rooster crowing on a hay pile, with hens foraging below under a hatched sky and a fence line in the distance.

Le Chant du Coq

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

Engraved rococo ornament plate with a crested bird, kneeling figures, scrollwork cartouches and an umbrella-holding figure.

Ornament Design with Figures and Birds

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

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 bearded winged figure seated on clouds atop a lion, reading a scroll against radiating light.

Saint Mark, seated on a Lion

Giulio Romano, 1510

Etching of a bearded magus and a youth beside a horse, with a groom and an owl on a branch above.

Magus and Youth, with a Horse and Groom, plate 19 from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1750

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

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

Engraving of a white horse in a stone archway with a halberd, armor, and a brazier, dated 1505.

The Small Horse

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Black and white print of a man in a doorway petting a large moose beside a snowy log cabin.

Boy with a Moose

Arthur Henry Howard Heming, 1910