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Brown ink drawing of the goddess Diana with a crescent moon in her hair, leaning on rocks with a spear beside trees.

The Goddess Diana Leaning on an Outcropping

Francesco Brizzi, 1600

Watercolor sketch of three brooch designs: birds with red berries, a flower cluster, and a flower with a beaded ribbon.

Designs for Three Brooches

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, 1780

Pencil sketch of a rocky landscape with a large tree at right, distant boats and hills, and a small figure.

Untitled. Landscape

Howard Russell Butler, 1900

Brown ink and wash drawing of a standing man gesturing to a seated man in an ornate chair beneath draped curtains.

An Audience

Domenico Mondo, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of two seated figures, one playing a flute, before ornate scrolled architectural decoration.

Seated Figures with Trophy

Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1540

Brown ink and wash drawing of a wedding ceremony on the left and a banquet table with seated guests on the right.

Marriage of the Virgin [left]; Marriage Feast at Cana [right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1580

Brown ink and wash drawing of two ornamental doorknobs, one with a coiled serpent among acanthus leaves, one with a rosette.

Two doorknobs

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of a crouching sphinx beside a flaming urn, framed by scrolling foliage in a decorative frieze.

Design for a Grotesque Frieze

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Watercolor study of a mule head with red-tasseled bridle beside an ox head with long curved horns on grey paper.

Head of a Mule with a Bridle, Head of a Buffalo or Ox

Samuel Colman, 1870

Pencil and chalk sketch of a beached sailing boat with a seated figure in a hat on the sand in the foreground.

At the shore

Howard Russell Butler, 1880

Ink and grey wash design of an ornamental title frame with a putto, two doves, garlands and laurel branches around a blank pa

Design for decoration of a title page

Carlo Marchionni, 1720

Pencil design drawing of a garden fountain with cascading water and a relief frieze of reclining mythological figures.

Design for Fountain with Tritone

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown wash drawing of four framed allegorical figures representing America, Asia, Africa and Europe in classical inte

The Four Continents: America, Asia, Africa, Europe

Felice Giani, 1810

Grey wash drawing of a winged angel between flaming torches on ornate pedestals, with radiating light behind.

Design for a ceremonial decoration

Carlo Marchionni, 1750

Pencil sketch of two boats on a beach with figures, a sail, and a small dog, by Winslow Homer.

Two Boats on Beach with Figures, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged putto flying among clouds in a lunette shape, with a handwritten inscription above.

Winter, Lunette for Ceiling of Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Painting of yellow and red zinnias among green leaves on a loose gray-blue background with visible brushwork.

Zinnias

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a pale iceberg floating on teal water under rosy, cloudy pink skies.

Iceberg Under Cloudy Skies, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Hand-drawn ink map of part of Penobscot County, Maine, showing a river, township grid, and handwritten place names on tan pap

Map of a Part of Penobscot County, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Brown ink drawing of men hunting crocodiles along a riverbank beneath willow trees, with onlookers at upper right.

Crocodile Hunt in Egypt

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged goddess Iris pointing beside an old bearded man, with columns and a distant warrior camp

Iris Encourages Priam to Beg the Body of Hector from Achilles

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a leafy tree with a branching trunk above a wooden fence, with faint smaller tree studies to the right.

Tree Sketches, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Red chalk study on blue paper of a seated draped man with a turned head and several sketched arms and hands.

Study for an Evangelist

Giuseppe Passeri, 1700

Three colored design drawings of ornate candlesticks labeled A, B and C, with yellow and grey washes on pale paper.

Three Designs for Candlesticks

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pencil sketch of soldiers gathered in a field, drawn loosely on a page in a maroon sketchbook.

Soldiers in a Field

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of a standing man with a lantern beside seated figures and rocks, a study for Winslow Homer's The Wreck.

Sketch for "The Wreck"

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a craggy rocky outcrop and boulders with trees on the ridge, inscribed Study from Nature.

Study from Nature

Thomas Doughty, 1830

Brown ink drawing of Neptune on a shell chariot drawn by sea creatures amid waves and nude figures.

Triumph of Neptune and Galatea

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Pencil sketch of four allegorical female figures on a folding screen design, with color notes labeling each panel.

Allegorical figures

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of three men playing dominoes at a table beside a teapot, with Chinese scrolls on the wall behind them.

Three Chinese Men Playing Dominoes in a Baxter Street Club-House, New York City

Winslow Homer, 1870