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Pencil sketch of a waterfall and cliff beneath a moon in the night sky, titled Niagara Moonlight.

Niagara Moonlight

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a wooded ridge and leaves on pale paper, with a small bird form and handwritten notes at right.

Wooded Ridge and Leaves, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of rugged mountain peaks and ridges on tan paper, with handwritten color notes and white highlights.

Approaching Mt. Hor

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Two Studies of a Bugler

Winslow Homer, 1860

Brown ink and wash drawing of a lake with a small boat, clouds above, and trees along the shore.

Imaginary Landscape with a Boat

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Loose oil sketch of a calm sea horizon under a pink and gray streaked sky with soft clouds.

Icebergs in the Distance, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a sphinx tied by rope to an ornate tripod stand with a flaming urn.

Fender

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Brown ink and wash sketch of a seated draped figure in a vaulted stone interior with arches and pillars.

Sketch, Seated Allegory in Architectural Setting

Fortunato Duranti, 1820

Pencil sketch of stone arches, ruined walls and figures in robes on a terrace, with handwritten notes, by Frederic Edwin Chur

Buildings and Figures at as-Samu, Palestine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch on brown paper of a landscape with trees, shrubs, rocks and hills receding into the distance.

View of Toche, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and ink sketch of a shell-shaped cartouche with two seated cherubs at its base and a small figure above.

Tablet bearing the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV with shell as background

Filippo Marchionni, 1740

Brown ink sketch of a wooden house by the water with beached dories and horizontal hatched sky and sea.

House at a Railing with Beached Dories

Winslow Homer, 1880

Faint pencil sketch of low rolling hills receding under an empty sky on tan paper.

Clouds

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil and chalk drawing of Bash-Bish Falls with figures resting on a rock ledge in the foreground.

Bash-Bish Falls, South Egremont, Massachusetts

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil sketch of a river valley with wooded hills and ruined castle towers on a rocky height at right.

A Valley in Mountainous Country

Eugène Edouard Soulès

Ink and wash design for a rococo escutcheon with an empty central field, shell crest and scrolled fluted sides.

Design for an escutcheon

Carlo Marchionni, 1720

Pencil sketch on cream paper in an album mount, showing a rough figure, an animal form, and handwritten notes.

The Extra Ration

Winslow Homer, 1860

Ink and wash drawing of architectural cornices, a carved mask pediment, a drapery swag and a walking man in a tricorn hat.

Architectural Details and Figure Study

Filippo Marchionni, 1760

Pencil sketch of a steamship with a trailing smoke plume crossing rough sea under a cloudy sky.

Fishing Trawler

Winslow Homer, 1890

Sunset over a river with red clouds, dark mountains beyond, and a small figure on the grassy bank at lower left.

Sunset, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil sketch of mountains and a foreground hill with handwritten color notes such as blue, brown, and cloud on cream paper.

Mountains, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Ink and wash architectural design of an altar with columns, a coffered arch, a niche statue, and a floor plan below.

Design for an altar for St. Anthony of Padua

Andrea Pozzo, 1700

Brown ink and wash drawing of five vertical pilaster strips with medallions, garlands, and small standing figures.

Design for the Decorations of Five Pilaster Strips

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

Graphite and white chalk sketch of boulders in the foreground with mountain ridges receding into the distance.

Sketch from Mount Chocorua

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Red chalk sketch of angels with a diagonal cross and draped shroud, showing overlapping figure studies on a pale sheet.

Angels Carrying the Holy Cross and Shroud

Mattia Preti, 1660

Pencil and white gouache sketch of snow-capped alpine peaks and steep slopes on brown paper, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Basin of the Obersee, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Brown ink and wash architectural drawing of a domed mausoleum with elevations, a plan, and measurement notes.

Design for a Mausoleum

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Reclining nude woman with red hair resting on a round mirror, draped in white cloth, against an ochre background.

Reclining Nude

Pierre Victor Galland, 1900

Two watercolor studies of resting brown and white calves, one lying under a tree and one asleep in grass.

Studies of Calves, Stockbridge

Samuel Colman, 1870

Watercolor drawing of an octagonal gazebo with twisted columns, garlands, broad stairs and statues on terraces.

Gazebo

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1810