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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pencil study of rocks and leafy undergrowth with ferns on a pale sheet, with a handwritten date and place inscription.

Study of foliage, Trachselwald, Bern, Switzerland

William Trost Richards, 1860

Pencil sketch of a seated draped woman beside a donkey and tree, with the handwritten word plenty below.

Study for "Plenty"

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Pencil and wash sketch of a steep cliff with small buildings above a calm sea, with a horizon line on the left.

Study of coastal cliff, Amalphi, Italy

William Stanley Haseltine, 1850

Pen and wash design drawing of a Gothic-style library bookcase with pointed arch tracery and pierced crest, by Thomas Chippen

Design for a Library Bookcase

Thomas Chippendale, 1750

Watercolor wall elevation with Chinese figure panels, a pagoda-roofed central door, dragon scrollwork and green marbled walls

Wall Elevation with Panels of Chinese Figures, for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Pencil and white chalk drapery studies of knotted and folded cloth on mauve paper, by Elihu Vedder, 1890.

Studies of Drapery of "Fortune"

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Watercolor design of a 19th-century Biedermeier drawing room with a tiled stove, piano, green carpet and potted plants.

Design for a Bourgeois Biedermeier Interior

Pencil sketch on translucent paper of polo players on horseback with raised mallets, folded into a curved lampshade design.

Design for Lampshade, Polo Players

William Hunt Diederich, 1920

Architectural elevation of a side wall with panelled sections and a central fireplace flanked by pilasters, in peach wash.

Side wall with fireplace

Frederick Crace, 1810

Wall elevation drawing of a symmetrical room with central fireplace, carved overmantel, paneled doors and classical busts in

Wall Elevation

James Byres, 1810

Watercolor of Storm King rising over the Hudson River with three sailboats and rocky shore in the foreground.

Storm King, Northern Entrance to the Highlands, Hudson River

Edwin Whitefield, 1840

Pencil sketches of gabled buildings with a tower, a sailboat on water, and two figures seated on a grassy bank.

Sketches at Marlborough

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Watercolor design of an interior wall with a central double door, red panels, a gold plaque, and decorative fretwork borders.

Design for Wall with Doorway, probably for the Ante Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Watercolor elevation of a wall with yellow faux marble niche, green pilasters and arched pediment, by Frederick Crace.

Wall Elevation with Marbled Niche

Frederick Crace, 1810

Red chalk drawing of an ornamental balustrade panel with scrolls, rosettes and foliage on a pale ground.

Study for panel of a balustrade

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Red chalk drawing of a winged figure over a draped pedestal beside an ornate scroll-handled vase.

Ornamental detail with winged figure and vase

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Pen and ink design drawing of a chapel wall with a lunette, narrative panels, pilasters and decorative cartouches.

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, 1590

Pencil study of a reclining nude woman with raised arm, after Michelangelo's Night, by Kenyon Cox, 1870.

Study of Michelangelo's "Night"

Kenyon Cox, 1870

Watercolor elevation of a chinoiserie wall design with pink panels, dragons, mythical lions and pagoda-topped niches on blue

Proposed Design for the West Wall of the Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Pencil drawing of two ornamental wall panels with dragons, lattice borders and a central figure above a carved base.

Wall Decoration (West) Wall, Music Room, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Pencil sketch of a flat marsh landscape with grasses, a large tree at left, distant wooded hills, and small cattle at right.

Study of seashore, Rhode Island

William Trost Richards, 1880

Pen drawing of a tea service with saucer, cup, teapot, sugar bowl and creamer decorated with scrolling ornamental patterns.

Design for China Decoration

Anna M. de Pool, 1880

Charcoal sketch of four running hounds above a wavy scroll border, a design for a firescreen by William Hunt Diederich.

Design for Firescreen, Four Hounds

William Hunt Diederich, 1920

Ink and wash drawing of an interior wall with three arched niches, rococo scrollwork, and urn-topped brackets.

Elevation of Wall with Three Niches

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Pen drawing of a nude woman riding a unicorn beside a satyr and putto, with scrolling foliage and the words Leonard Cox - His

Bookplate for Leonard Cox

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Red chalk sketch on cream paper showing a winged figure on the left and two putti interacting on the right within a ruled bor

Three putti

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Watercolor design for a box cover with blue ground, white interlaced scrollwork, gold vines and a blank central circle.

Design for a Box Cover

Anna M. de Pool, 1890

Red chalk drawing of three ornate candelabras with scrolled bases and flared tops on cream paper.

Candelabras

Jean-Robert Ango, 1770

Grasshopper driving a chariot pulled by two butterflies over flowering plants, with a patterned border below.

Design for Embroidery, Corner of Gentleman's Waistcoat

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, 1770

Pencil sketch of a reclining classical male nude statue on an oval pedestal, dated December 31 in the lower right.

Study of a Statue, or Cast

Arnold William Brunner, 1870