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Brown ink and wash elevation of a vestibule wall with two doorways, carved floral panels and an arched pediment above.

Vestibule wall

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Watercolor design of a gilded candelabrum with two green classical figures beside a patterned pedestal.

Design for Two Candlesticks

Tournai Lefebvre Manufactory, 1800

Pencil and white-chalk study of a young woman with lowered eyes and hair swept back, with handwritten notes at the bottom.

Sketch of Carolina Palombo, Study for "The Goldsmith's Daughter"

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Graphite study on gray paper of a seated woman in an off-shoulder dress, head bowed, hands resting in her lap.

Study of Seated Woman for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Four brown ink and wash designs of draped bed canopies and curtains set within alcoves, arranged in a grid.

Four Designs for Bedroom Alcoves

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Pencil sketch of a Coney Island beach scene with small figures, flagpoles, tents, and bathers on tan paper.

Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Ink sketch in two registers: robed figures and animals above, a crowd confronting a satyr among rocks below.

Apollonius meeting the People and Animals of Ethiopia [above]; Apollonius Quelling the Ghost of a Satyr in Ethiopia […

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Colored design drawing of an Egyptian-style vase clock flanked by green sphinxes, red columns and caryatid figures.

Design for a Vase Clock in Egyptian Style

Luigi Righetti, 1810

Pen and wash design drawing of a double door with classical relief scenes, garland swags, and laurel pilasters.

Design for a Double Door with Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Brown ink drawing of a winged classical figure inscribing text on an oval shield beside a pedestal and urn.

A Winged Victory Inscribing the Date 1805 on a Shield

Felice Giani, 1800

Ink and wash design drawing of a table clock with a laurel wreath, fluted column, garlands and urn finials.

Design for a Table Clock

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Brown ink and wash drawing of figures on a balcony under a colonnade, with a woman carrying a basket and an arched bridge bel

Study of the Visitation, After Peter Paul Rubens

Felice Giani, 1810

Graphite study of a woman's bare arm bent at the elbow with the hand resting below, on grey toned paper.

Study of an Arm for Portrait of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Watercolor design of a wall with gold patterned wallpaper, a blue border, and a floral lacquered commode topped by a porcelai

Section of a wall

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Anatomical Study of Male Nude

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Pencil sketch of a circular Navajo war shield with feathers and handwritten color notes labeling light blue, red, and dark ar

War Shield of Navajo

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Study of Seated Woman for "Titian Showing the Entombment to Charles V and Clement VII"

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Pen and ink sketch of robed religious figures around a central standing figure beneath a small glory motif, within an archite

Glory with Trinity and Saints (recto), architectural plan for the church of Santa Maria d'Itria in Rome

Francesco Manno, 1800

Pencil sketch of a woman and child in capes and bonnets with handwritten clothing notes on cream paper.

Woman and child

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and brown wash design with two symmetrical ornamental panels featuring oval landscape medallions, scrollwork, putti and d

Design for the Decoration of a Panel

Giuseppe Barberi, 1770

Pencil sketch of a tree trunk entwined by strangler fig roots and vines, with branches, a cactus and small plants.

Strangler Fig and its Host, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Two chalk studies of draped standing women on toned paper, one in red-brown and one in grey with white highlights.

Study for standing woman, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

Robert Frederick Blum, 1890

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long dress with studies of hands and handwritten color notes on the page.

Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes Standing, Studies of Arm and Hands

Daniel Huntington, 1880

Chalk study on blue paper of a kneeling veiled woman with drapery and a separate head of a young woman.

Studies: The Cloth of a Kneeling Woman. The Head of a Young Woman

Carlo Maratti, 1650

Pencil sketch of a table with fluted legs in an interior, with windows and cabinetry sketched at left and right.

Table

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pen and ink design sheet with scrolling acanthus, a lion head, winged creature and cherubs in a double border.

Recto, Design for a door handle with alternative suggestions

Jean Le Pautre, 1650

Charcoal study of a rescuer in a cap holding an unconscious woman beneath a hanging rope and life ring.

Study for "The Life Line"

Winslow Homer, 1880

Grey ink wash drawing of a draped female figure holding a staff beside a celestial globe on a pedestal.

Urania

Filippo Marchionni, 1780

Watercolor of a small boat's stern and oars in rough teal sea with white-capped waves, by Winslow Homer.

Study for "The Gulf Stream"

Winslow Homer, 1890

Pen and brown ink drawing of two roundels: a winged victory driving a horse chariot, and a winged victory crowning seated Min

A Winged Victory Riding a Chariot; A Winged Victory Crowning Minerva; two roundels

Felice Giani, 1800