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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil sketch of a lake valley with jagged mountains and a small standing figure on rocks in the foreground.

Saint Aegidius by the Wolfgangsee, St. Gilgen, Austria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oval brown ink wash drawing of Ulysses and companions escaping in a boat from the Cyclops's cave with sheep.

Ulysses Escapes the Cyclops’s Cave and Embarks with a Companion

Brown ink drawing of two deathbed scenes, a sick man attended by figures and a penitent man visited by a priest and angels.

The Penitent Man on his Deathbed [left]; The Penitent Man Visited by a Priest and Angels [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Etching of the Nativity with Mary holding the infant Christ, angels, and an IHS monogram inside an ornate scrolled frame.

Nativity

Johann Evangelist Holzer, 1700

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

Engraving of an elderly saint carried by two winged angels through an arched hall, with monks watching and Latin text below.

St. Peter Nolasque Carried to Offices by Angels

Claude Mellan, 1620

Engraving of Saint John the Baptist holding a cross staff and a book with a lamb, standing in a wooded landscape with a halo.

Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Villamena, 1620

Brown ink and wash drawing of a crowd of robed men standing together in an interior beside a bench.

Apostles after Raphael's "Death of Ananias"

Felice Giani, 1810

Etched print of three vertical trophies with Bacchic attributes like wine cups, grapes, staves, and garlands.

Trophies with Attributes of Bacchus

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Engraving of Saint John seated on an eagle among clouds, writing in a book within a radiating halo of light.

Saint John, writing, seated on an Eagle

Giulio Romano, 1510

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

Pen and ink drawing of a group of robed men with raised arms and kneeling figures, arranged in a dynamic religious scene.

Group of Apostles

Alphonse Alexandre Leroy, 1840

Etching of a haloed preacher on a stone platform addressing a crowd, with a seated beggar and kneeling women in the foregroun

Christ Preaching ("La Petite Tomb")

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated veiled woman surrounded by angels and musicians on clouds under a radiant arch.

Virgin Ascending with Concert of Angels

Felice Giani, 1810

Woodcut of crucified Christ surrounded by saints, angels, and rose garlands, with figures rising from flames below.

The Great Rosary

Erhard Schön, 1510

Engraving of a bearded elderly figure raising one arm above clouds, with two winged boy angels resting on a cloud below.

The Almighty in the Clouds, with Two Boy Angels

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing in an oval: a draped woman offers a cup to a reclining bearded god, with cherubs in clouds above.

Hebe Offering a Drink to Zeus

Felice Giani, 1810

Etching of an ornate galley with rowers, armored warriors, a dragon prow, and Apollo in a chariot above the sea.

Idmone e Mopso argon guidati da Apollo, from Vessels of the Argonauts for the wedding celebration of Cosimo de' Medic…

Remigio Cantagallina, 1600

Engraved rococo arch and fountain design with a statue of Diana, cherubs, an eagle, and garden trees behind.

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Diana

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1740

Pen and ink drawing of a seated warrior in a tent as a woman is led forward by a helmeted man and bearded elders.

Achilles Yields Briseis

Felice Giani, 1790

Engraving of a kneeling Christ reaching toward an angel with a cross while sleeping disciples lie in the foreground.

Agony in the Garden, from The Engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1500

Etched print of an ornate rocaille arch framing a statue of Venus, with cherubs, garlands and a fountain beside it.

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Venus and Amor

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1740

Sepia drawing of four allegorical female statues in arched niches labeled Musica, Architettura, Pittura, Scoltura, with a sma

Four Statues in Niches: Music, Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture; Study of Bacchus and Mercury

Felice Giani, 1810

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the sleeping Christ child, with two angels above and a caption with a coat of arms below

The Madonna With Sleeping Child

Jean-Baptiste Michel, 1780

Engraved rococo fountain design with a scrolled arch, three figures on a basin, cascading water, staircase and sculpted urn.

Rocaille Arch and Fountain with Three Graces

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1740

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Madonna and Child with saints, a lion, angels and classical temples in a landscape.

Madonna and the Infant, St. Jerome, Mary Magdalene and Angels, after Correggio

Felice Giani, 1810

Engraving of a winged angel carrying two sleeping children over a pastoral landscape with sheep, cattle and a farmhouse.

Angel with Two Children in Her Arms

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1760

Woodcut of the Virgin Mary ascending on clouds, crowned by two figures, with apostles below beside an open tomb.

The Assumption of the Virgin, from the Life of the Virgin series

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Brown ink and wash drawing of two nude men in a landscape with a draped figure, discs on the ground, and a river.

Apollo and Hycianth, after Domenichino

Felice Giani, 1810

Hand-colored view of Notre Dame cathedral from a Paris quay, with laundry hanging on a white building and washerwomen at the

Notre Dame, Paris from the Quai Saint Bernard

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1830