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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Pen and brown wash drawing of a helmeted warrior pointing beside an altar marked Apollo, with a ship and crowd in an octagona

Themistocles

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil sketch of a seated man with curly hair and beard in a suit, one hand on a chair arm, with handwritten notes.

Study for Portrait of Charles J. Martin

Daniel Huntington, 1870

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

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

Watercolor design drawing of a gilded goblet with fluted bowl, classical relief panels, and garland-decorated pedestal foot.

Design for a Chalice

Luigi Righetti, 1770

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

Pen and blue wash drawing of a robed male figure gazing upward beside a cherub holding a staff on a cloud.

King David

Antonio Bicchierari, 1750

Grey wash drawing of the crucified Christ with a kneeling saint and angels in an arched composition.

Saint Jadwiga kneeling before the Crucified Christ; preparatory drawing for an altarpiece at the church of San Stanis…

Polish Szymon Czechowicz, 1720

Pen and wash drawing of a standing man with a huge nose and tricorn hat, surrounded by smaller caricature heads.

Caricatures

Carlo Marchionni, 1720

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in draped robes holding a child, set within a painted blue, yellow, and black border.

Standing Laundress

Luigi Vanvitelli, 1700

Pencil sketches of a reclining river god and other figures with handwritten notes, on a pale sheet of paper.

Two Sketches of River Gods

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740

Pen and ink wash drawing in two scenes: a haloed figure meeting walkers above, and a crowded arcaded city square below.

Apollonius meeting the Messenger of the Brahmans [above]; Apollonius Ridding the People of Ephesus of a Plague Demon…

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Graphite study on blue paper of a woman's bowed head and an outstretched arm with hand, by Daniel Huntington.

Studies for Angel in "Mercy's Dream"

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Pencil study sheet with loose bird sketches, angular forms and handwritten colour notes including blue, lilac and sunlight.

Garden

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Watercolor and ink design drawing of a mantel clock topped by a seated archer woman and a greyhound, with a green marble case

Design for a Mantel Clock

Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, 1780

Red chalk study of a religious altarpiece with a standing infant above cherub heads and kneeling and praying figures below.

Project for an Altar Painting

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a gnarled evergreen tree with twisted branches on brown paper, by Frederic Edwin Church.

A Gnarled Evergreen, Grand Manan Island, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

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

Fireplace

Robert Frederick Blum, 1870

Pencil sketch of tree trunks, a board fence, and faint animal legs on cream paper.

Tree Trunks beside a Board Fence

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

A White-Brown Cockatoo

Flemish Frans Snyders, 1610

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

Chalk drawing on blue-grey paper of a young boy balancing a tray of bottles on a pedestal, pointing outward.

The Youthful Vendor

François Boucher, 1750

Pencil sketch of a floating iceberg and distant mountains with a small head study and handwritten color notes on aged paper.

Sketches of a Man's Head and Floating Iceberg, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Study of Boy Holding a Salver for "The Republican Court" (Lady Washington's Reception Day)

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Pencil sketches of dunes, a house among trees, and a wind-bent tree on a coastal page with handwritten colour notes.

Sketches from Sea Girt, New Jersey

Samuel Colman, 1870

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

Brown ink drawing of a rococo covered tureen above a circular platter with an ornate scrolled border.

Design for a Tureen and a Platter

Thomas Germain, 1740

Frame and chandelier; male portrait bust

Giuseppe Barberi, 1780

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

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