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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor design of a wall with three Gothic arches, blue drapery, dragon-coiled columns and a dragon frieze.

Design for Wall with Three Gothic Arches, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Ink and wash sheet with eight oval studies of winged female allegorical figures holding trumpets, torches, mirrors and serpen

Ceiling Design, History, Abundance in Six Ovals, Sala di Ercole ed Ebe, Palazzo Gessi, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor study of an ornate ceiling corner with a seated figure, heraldic shield, garlands, and a cherub.

Corner detail of ceiling, Hotel de Cluny, Paris

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Watercolor design of a double door between two glazed bookcases with painted pilasters and lattice door panels.

Design for Doorway and Bookcase, probably for King's Library, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Pen and brown ink sketch sheet with a standing nude male figure, seated figures, winged putti and cloud studies.

Figural Studies

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1800

Pen and ink design drawing of an overmantel and wall moldings with rococo scrollwork and a medallion panel.

Design for Overmantel; recto, Plans of Moldings

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1720

Pencil design elevation of an entrance hall wall with doorways, a central dragon medallion, dragon pilasters and a fireplace.

Design for the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a seated allegorical woman with an open book, flanked by two winged putti on clouds.

Theology, after Raphael Sansio, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican

Felice Giani, 1820

Wash drawing of a domed ceiling design with coffered panels, classical columns, putti and a central hexagonal opening.

Design for a Painted Oblong Ceiling

Andrea Pazzi, 1700

Ink and wash elevation of a salon wall with double doors, a central mantelpiece with clock, and a pale blue panel.

Wall Elevation for a Salon with Mantelpiece

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1770

Pen and ink drawing of ceiling and wall decoration studies with coffered panels, a statue in a niche, and an inscribed curved

Designs for Ceiling and Wall Decorations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design for an oval gilded frame with rosette band, rope moulding and a garland of leaves at the top.

Project for an Oval Frame

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of three nude female figures holding a garland, flanked by two winged cupids in a trapezoidal frame.

The Three Graces

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of an ornate canopy cresting with plumes, swagged drapery and fringed hangings.

Cresting of a Canopy

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo overdoor with cherubs in a cartouche and a carved chimney piece beside a mirror panel.

Design for an Overdoor and Chimney

Nicolas Pineau, 1730

Pencil frieze of winged putti riding dolphins over waves, with a bearded sea god's face at the right.

Frieze with Dolphins and Putto

Felice Giani, 1820

Brown ink and wash drawing of a Gothic interior with pointed arches, a rose window, columns and a ribbed vault.

Interior of a Gothic room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Red ink drawing of architectural elevations with a door, overdoor, classical moldings, scrollwork, and two putti.

Elevations of a Door, Door Frames, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Pen and ink drawing of a foreshortened painted ceiling with columns, cherubs, and a central sky scene by Cesare Sermei.

Project for a Painted Ceiling

Cesare Sermei, 1650

Brown ink and wash design sketch of vaulted ceiling lunettes with seated figures, medallions, and ornamental panels.

Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Grey wash drawing of a classical interior with coffered vault, Corinthian columns, garland-bearing figures and a bust in an a

Project for a painted ceiling with an antique bust in an archway

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, 1800

Graphite drawing of three winged putti with trumpets and a wreath inside a stepped arched frame, with grid lines.

Three Putti with Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1800

Four brown ink and wash sketches of domed bedroom alcoves with draped curtains and columns on a sheet of paper.

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketch of an ornate fireplace with a carved mantelpiece and surrounding wall in a room interior.

Fireplace

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and brown wash design for a frame with an empty oval cartouche labeled Otway, above a pedestal with a lyre and a head.

Design for Frame Surrounding the Portrait of Thomas Otway

Hubert François Gravelot, 1730

Pen and brown wash design sketch of a bedroom interior with arched ceiling, pilasters, and ornamental panel details.

Design for Decorations for a Bedroom

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash architectural design of a doorway with pediment, urn and reclining dogs, with two figures standing in the openin

Design for the North Portal, Grand Gallery, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, 1750

Watercolor study of an ornate palace wall with gilded stucco, painted panels of flowers and landscapes, and a decorated door.

Section of a wall showing groups of painted panels, Oval Chamber, Salon Louis XIV, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Brown ink and wash elevation of a decorated room wall with a doorway, mirror, classical statues and relief panels.

Elevation of a Drawing Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate fireplace with a carved bust in a niche, a standing figure, and an oval floor plan b

Design for a Fireplace, Antinous Room, Villa Albani, Rome, Italy

Carlo Marchionni, 1750

Symmetrical pen and wash design for a plaster ceiling with central rosette, swags, ribbons and acanthus scrolls.

Design for a Plaster Ceiling

George Richardson, 1810

Pen and brown wash drawing of six alcove elevations with draped curtains, columns, pediments and putti.

Six Designs for Alcove Elevations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining couple with a cupid in a garden, framed in an octagon with pencil grid numbers.

Ceiling Design with Rinaldo and Armida, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Vertical decorative wall border with gilded cartouches, crowned monograms, and scrolling foliage in blue and gold.

Detail: Wall Decoration, Palace of Fontainebleau

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Brown wash drawing of a decorated living room wall elevation with two doorways, garlands, putti and oval medallions.

Elevation of a Living Room Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil design for a ceiling with a central chariot scene, winged figures, trumpets and ornamental scrolls in a grid layout.

Ceiling Decoration, Victory in a Chariot, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Grey wash drawing of a vertical ceiling design with Apollo, putti, clouds and a reclining draped figure.

Ceiling Design with Apollo

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a draped bed alcove with swagged curtains, tassels, and a canopy with foliage.

Elevation of a Bed Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and grey wash drawing of three ornate classical pedestal designs with cherubs, sphinxes, garlands and reliefs.

Designs for Three Pedestals

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Watercolor design of an ornate interior wall with gilded putti, an octagonal portrait, marble panels and a fireplace.

Section of wall, salon Louis XIII, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Pen and wash design drawing of a door with an overdoor relief of seated figures and scrolling ornamental panels.

Design for a Double Door with Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of a rococo salon wall with a paneled door, fountain niche, urn and ornate carved decoration.

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Ink and watercolor design of an illusionistic gilded ceiling with putti, clouds, draped fabric and figures on a balustrade.

Ceiling Design

Philippe Canot, 1710

Brown ink and wash design drawing of a church pillar pedestal with a relief of two putti and fluted pilasters.

Design for the Pedestal and Base of a Pillar in a Church

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and ink design sketch of a domed classical mantelpiece with columns, garlands, and detail studies of ornament.

Design for a Mantelpiece

Giuseppe Valadier, 1810

Brown wash design for spandrel decoration showing a bearded man with a raised sword and a child within arched frames.

Design for Spandral Decoration

Pen and brown wash drawing with four panels of putti, a lion, an eagle, and allegorical figures for ceiling decoration.

Design for Ceiling Decoration, Four Allegorical Representations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Pen and wash drawing of a symmetrical wall decoration with two arched niches, a woman at an altar, and putti beside a torch.

Painted Wall Decoration

Mauro Gandolfi, 1800

Pen and watercolor elevation of a neoclassical room wall with green panels, pink drapery, medallions and putti.

Wall Elevation for an Antechamber or Salon

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1780

Ink and brown wash drawing of tiered pedestals with relief panels, a mask ornament, and a lion on a plinth.

Bases of pilaster stripe

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Colored pen drawing of a coffered ceiling design with a central medallion showing a figure on a sea chariot among cherubs.

Design for Ceiling with Triumph of Galatea

Felice Giani, 1800

Watercolor elevation of a salon wall with floral garlands, gilded panels, a central mirror and a blue settee.

Elevation of the Wall of a Salon

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Brown wash drawing of an elevated drawing room wall with two doorways, panels, a central pedestal with statues, and console t

Elevation of a Drawing Room Entrance Wall with Alternative Suggestions

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash study of an ornamental ceiling with coffered panels, a column detail, and a temple facade sketch.

Study for the Sala di Apollo, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Tall watercolor of an ornate palace wall with painted medallions, sculpted figures, gilded moldings and faux marble panels.

Section of wall, Escalier de la cour ovale, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Pen and brown wash sketch of a bed alcove with draped curtains, a canopy, a bed post, and a garland-decorated arch.

Bed Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash design for a bed alcove with a reclining putto, draped fabric, foliage, and scrolled ornament around a central p

Design for Decoration of a Bed Alcove

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1720

Pen and grey wash ceiling design with coffered panels, figurative medallions and corner spandrels by Felice Giani, 1810.

Ceiling Design for Room in Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Brown ink and wash drawing of a decorative wall dado with garlands, urns, and a central framed panel.

Dado with alternative suggestions

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of two nude putti, one holding a bundle of stalks and one raising a sprig of foliage.

Design for a Lunette, Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Italy, Summer

Marcantonio Franceschini, 1690

Ink and wash design of an octagonal ceiling with hexagonal coffers and a central rosette medallion, with a scale bar below.

Design for Ceiling for the Basement Story, Carlton House, Pall Mall, London, England

Henry Holland, 1780

Pen and brown ink design drawing of an interior wall with a domed top, oval medallions, and a dark door panel.

Design for a Door Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of a ceiling design in perspective with octagonal medallions, painted panels and small grotesque figures

Ceiling of a Small Cabinet, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Grey wash drawing of an ornate rococo wall design with fireplace, scrollwork, cherubs and framed panels.

Design for a Chimney Piece and Adjoining Bays with Alternative Suggestions

Nicolas Pineau, 1700

Brown ink and wash drawing of two long-beaked birds among acanthus leaves and seed pods on a curving stem.

Two Birds in Foliage with Seed Pods

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil drawing of two winged women in classical robes flanking a handled urn beneath a medallion and garlands.

Frieze with Bacchantes

Felice Giani, 1820

Head of a dolphin

Filippo Marchionni, 1770

Pen and brown wash design for a ceiling with circular medallions, winged putti, garlands and coffered panels.

Design for an Oblong Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds surrounded by angels and putti within an oval.

Design for a Ceiling with the Ascension of the Virgin

Francesco Trevisani, 1700

Pencil sketch of a Siena cathedral interior with inlaid marble floor, pulpit, Gothic arches, and a fresco of robed figures.

Notes of the Duomo Choir, Siena, Italy

Walter Shirlaw, 1860

Ink and wash elevation drawing of an ornamented interior wall with a central doorway, oval medallions and an arched cornice.

Elevation, End Wall of the Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri, Rome

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Ink and wash drawing of a winged figure representing Virgo within a semicircular lunette, with clouds and handwritten notes.

Virgo, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Colorful watercolor design of ceiling panels with star patterns, rosettes, acanthus leaves and floral garlands.

Design for Ceiling, City Hall, Vienna, Austria

Friedrich von Schmidt, 1890

Ink and wash drawing of two neoclassical wall panel designs, one with a tree between seated figures and a landscape medallion

Designs for a Wall Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash drawing of a tall rococo wall panel with scrollwork, foliage, garlands and a bird among shells.

Carved Decoration for a Wall Panel

P. Ludovik, 1730

Pencil drawing of three winged putti playing tambourines and trumpets within an arched architectural frame.

Three Putti with Tambourines and Trumpets, Design for Lunette of the Sala delle Muse, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of a draped canopy bed alcove with a standing figure in a plumed hat at the right.

Bed Alcove with a Figure

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and brown wash drawing of a saint ascending among clouds, surrounded by angels and putti.

Apotheosis of a Saint

Corrado Giaquinto, 1740

Watercolor of a domed hall with crowds in academic gowns and red robes, galleries above, and a painted ceiling.

Encaenia in the Sheldonia

Thomas Uwins, 1810

Brown wash design drawing of a fireplace mantelpiece with carved putti reliefs, garlands, and pilasters.

Design for Mantelpiece Reliefs, Noble Cabinet, Palazzo Altieri

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash drawing of rococo ceiling ornament with scrolls, garlands, putti and architectural moldings on a pale sheet.

Project for a Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1750

Brown ink and wash drawing of a winged youth riding a rearing ram within a semicircular lunette composition.

Ares, Lunette for Ceiling, Sala Ottagonale, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown ink and wash design drawing of three decorative wall panels with niches, trees, garlands, and small landscape scenes.

Design for the Decorations of a Wall Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design with oval portrait of bearded Henry IV in armor, flanked by two putti holding fruit garlands above a coat o

Henry IV

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Split architectural drawing of an altar screen with Corinthian columns, a pediment, and a central arched niche.

Elevation of Altar Screen

François Boucher, 1770

Sepia ink and wash drawing of a columned bed alcove with draped curtains and a coffered ceiling in perspective.

Design for a Bed Alcove, Perspective

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and brown ink drawing of a lunette ceiling vault with winged figures, medallions and borders, plus a small bedroom sketch

Ceiling Vault Decoration, Camera da Letto, Sala di Cornelia di Palazzo Cavina, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1810

Grey wash drawing of an oval ceiling design with a radiant sun god holding a torch, reclining figures, and cherubs among clou

Study for an Oval Ceiling Design, Apollo, Strength, and Love

Fedele Fischetti, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of a low dome with ribbed panels and a classical frieze of rosettes and palmettes above a cornice.

Decoration for low dome of a room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and wash design for a dome fresco showing clouds, angels, saints and putti above painted arched windows.

Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello

Tommaso Maria Conca, 1780

Pen and grey wash design for a coffered ceiling with a central frieze of horsemen and winged figures in square panels.

Ceiling Cabinet Dedicated to War, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and ink elevation drawing of a room's walls with shuttered windows, paneled doors, medallions and a decorative frieze.

Elevation of a Room

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Colored drawing of an ornate classical ceiling design with medallions, garlands, scrollwork, and figures in red, blue and gol

Ceiling in Hadrian's Villa, near Tivoli

Luigi Rossini, 1820

Brown ink drawing of Numa Pompilius seated with the nymph Egeria in a rocky grotto landscape within an oval frame.

Numa Pompilius and Egeria, Sala di Numa Pompilius, Palazzo Milzetti, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Pen and brown wash design for a wall with arches, pilasters, hanging garlands, draped curtains and candelabra.

Design for Wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor of an ornate interior wall with a central door, sculptural pediment, painted urns and garlands, and a console tabl

Section of wall, bedroom of Marie Antoinette, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880