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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor design of a wall with paneled doors, columns, balcony railings and a sky backdrop.

Wall Decoration and Door with Columns, Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Frederick Crace, 1800

Pen and gray wash design for a vaulted ceiling panel with a central figural scene and two small putti medallions.

Abundance, Vaulted Panel, Sala d'onore, Appartmento Napoleonico, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome

Felice Giani, 1810

Watercolor of a palace wall with a Flemish tapestry of a rider, gilt frame, carved cabinet, and upholstered armchair.

Section of a wall showing portion of Flemish tapestry, Tapestry room, Palace of Fontainebleau, France

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bed alcove with draped curtains and a neoclassical chimney mantel with an urn.

Bed alcove and chimney mantel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of winged putti in four octagons and two circles, surrounded by clouds, by Felice Giani.

Putti in Four Octagons and Two Circles

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and wash design drawing of a rococo wall panel and fireplace with a pastoral scene framed by scrolling ornament.

Design for a Wall Panel with Fireplace

Johann August Nahl the Elder, 1740

Pen and brown wash drawing of ceiling designs with rosettes, coffered panels, lattice patterns and pointed arches.

Designs for Ceiling Decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Ink and wash drawing of Alexander and the family of Darius in a tent, with armored men, kneeling women and a child.

Ceiling Design, Alexander and the Family of Darius, the Clemency of Alexander, Sala di Alessandro, Palazzo Naldi, Faenza

Felice Giani, 1800

Ink and grey wash drawing of a Gothic chapel interior with pointed arches, stone columns, timber roof and carved altar steps.

Stage Design, Interior of Gothic Chapel

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1830

Watercolor design of a gilded neoclassical wall with blue drapery, a chandelier and painted allegorical roundels.

Design for the Wall Decoration for Marie-Antoinette's Apartment at Fontainebleau Palace

Jean-Siméon Rousseau, 1770

Pen and ink drawing of three stacked trapezoid decorative panels with mythological figures, putti, centaurs and flowers.

Decorative Project: Three Trapezoids with Flora and Zefiro

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown wash drawing of ornamental designs with putti, foliage scrolls, a pedestal and small birds in medallions.

Ceiling decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Oil sketch of tree trunks, a clinging epiphyte and rocks in dense jungle undergrowth, inscribed Jamaica.

Trees in the Jungle Interior, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of a coffered ceiling design with octagonal and circular panels showing classical sacrifice scenes.

Decorative Design for Ceiling

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and wash drawing of a classical double door design with a figure-filled overdoor, fluted pilasters and scrolling ornament

Design for a Double Door and Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Muted study of a painted ceiling section with framed panels, scrollwork cartouches, and a reclining figure.

Study for Section of Ceiling Ornament

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Pen and brown wash drawing of a winged putto holding a flower wreath while flying among clouds, in a lunette shape.

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

Felice Giani, 1800

Brown wash drawing of a vaulted temple stage set with a central statue, winged figures, fire urns, and Italian inscriptions o

Stage Design: Interior of a Temple

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design of green draped curtains with tassels beside a painted garden scene of costumed figures and a balustrade.

Design for Portion of Stairway in Château-sur-Mer, Newport, Rhode Island

Charles Salagnad, 1870

Pen and grey wash drawing of a rococo ornamental frieze with scrollwork, a central mask, and foliate motifs.

Design for a Ceiling Decoration

Giuseppe Maria Rolli, 1720

Brown ink and wash drawing of classical temple interiors, a winged trumpeter, architectural plans, and figures in a garden.

Interior of Temple of Glory and Figured Details

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and wash design for a square ceiling with central roundel, garlands, rosettes and octagonal corner panels.

Design for a Square Ceiling

George Richardson, 1770

Ink and watercolor drawing of a vaulted stone prison interior with arches, columns, and a stairway leading to a bright passag

Stage Design, Fortified Castle Interior for "Ciro in Babilonia" by Gioachino Rossini, La Scala, Milan, 1818, "Prigion…

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1800

Ink and wash design with a seated allegorical woman, a putto and columns in a central panel, flanked by two round medallions

Vaulted Panel Design, Allegory of Justice, Palazzo Quirinale, Rome, Italy

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and ink drawing of a stage design showing a stone prison interior with a tower, arches, barred gate and hanging lantern.

Stage Design of a Prison Interior

Michelangelo Fasano, 1770

Brown ink and wash drawing of a Gothic interior stage design with pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and draped curtains.

Stage Design for the Interior of a Gothic Building

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and watercolor drawing of a classical woman holding a garland carried by two winged putti, over a grid.

Wall painting

Mauro Gandolfi, 1810

Pencil sketch of an entrance hall with a dark doorway, hanging cloth, and a standing figure beside a column.

Entrance Hall

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Two ink and wash drawings of an alcove wall with draped curtains, bookshelves, urns and busts in classical style.

Designs for Bedroom Alcove Wall Elevations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pen and wash stage design of a vaulted classical palace interior with arcades, columns and statues, by Angelo Toselli.

Stage Design, Interior of Palace

Angelo Toselli, 1800