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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Red chalk study of a standing male figure with outstretched arm and loose sketches of heads and drapery on cream paper.

Study for a group of figures, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Painting of a seated boy in a straw hat and white shirt, viewed from behind, surrounded by tall green grass.

Seated Boy, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown-ground drawing of Christ in glory surrounded by angels, clouds and nude figures, heightened with white and blue.

Christ in Glory with Angels

Belisario Corenzio, 1640

Red chalk architectural elevation of a door, overdoor with a griffin, lion mask, and carved wall panels on paper.

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

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1800

Pencil sketch of two figures seen from behind beside reeds and a shoreline, with a seated figure at left.

Stern View of Two Canoes

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pen and brown wash drawing of six designs for bedroom alcoves with draped curtains, domes, and classical columns.

Six Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketch of a tree grove with bamboo leaf studies scattered below, labeled Jamaica Aug 65.

Bamboo Grove, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and wash sketch of a standing mounted officer in a kepi cap, sash and sabre, on aged paper.

Mounted Cavalry Officer

Winslow Homer, 1860

Oil sketch of a flat-topped iceberg above dark water under a muted sky, painted by Frederic Edwin Church in 1850.

Iceberg in Cartwright's Bight, Southwest from Battle Harbor, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of leaning rifles and grass tufts on a yellowed page mounted in a grey album.

Rifles Leaning Together

Winslow Homer, 1860

Pencil sketch of broken tree trunks and branches on tan paper, with the upper part of the sheet left blank.

Broken Tree Trunks

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Painted study of broken fluted columns and stone fragments overlooking a blue sea and distant mountains.

Broken Columns, View from the Parthenon, Athens

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink and wash design drawing of a neoclassical chimneypiece with Ionic columns and a relief frieze of figures and lions.

Design for a Chimneypiece

Luigi Righetti, 1800

Pen and brown wash drawing of an empty rococo cartouche topped with a papal tiara and crossed keys.

Drawing - Carlo Marchionni, 1780

Carlo Marchionni, 1780

Pencil sketch of distant mountains and trees with handwritten color notes on cream paper.

Mountain Views from Cuautla, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a figure seen from behind, wearing a cap and coat, on cream paper with a museum stamp.

James McNeill Whistler

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch sheet with studies of icebergs and sea, with handwritten notes about colour on pale paper.

Four Floating Icebergs, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sunset over Rome with St. Peter's dome and a statue-topped column above rooftops, drawn in loose brown and orange strokes.

The Column of the Immaculate Conception and St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and brown wash drawing of a classical facade with four standing figures in niches and reclining figures on the pediment.

Entrance to a prison

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Ink and wash stage design showing classical columns, an arcade and a rocky cave with trees under diagonal light.

Stage Design, Cave and Temple

Romolo Achille Liverani, 1800

Pencil study of a standing man in an overcoat with a repeated head, shoulder and outstretched arm on tan paper.

President Chester A. Arthur, Standing, with Separate Head, Shoulder, and Arm Study

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Oil sketch of a forest path with tree trunks and sunlit undergrowth, painted in browns and greens.

A Road into the Woods

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a stone lazaretto with a domed roof, arched doors and a low wall on a hillside.

Lazaretto at Hebron, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Small sketch of a broad plain with rounded hills, forested slopes, cloudy sky and a red path in the foreground.

Liguanea Plain, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and wash design drawing of a tall candlestick with six leaf-shaped candle cups, winged sphinxes, and an ivy-wrapped colum

Design for a Candlestick

Joseph Anton Seethaler II, 1810

Pencil sketch of the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens, with ruins and fallen stones in the foreground.

The Parthenon and Erechtheion, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted design for an embroidered border with yellow leaf garland, orange drapery swags, fringe and twisted rope on brown pap

Design for an Embroidered Horizontal Border of the "Fabrique de St. Ruf"

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, 1800

Pencil and paint sketch of a mauve mountain rising over a pale tan plain under a grey-blue sky.

Mountain Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Graphite sketch of four monkey head studies on tan paper, one large frontal face and three smaller angled views.

Monkey

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Watercolor of a Venetian canal street with brick buildings, a footbridge, a lantern, and a figure in a dark cloak.

Canal, Venice, Italy

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1880