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Pen and brown wash design drawing of a bedroom alcove with draped curtains and a frieze of figures above.

Design for Bedroom Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pencil sketches of robed figures and dogs on tan paper, with handwritten color notes annotating the clothing.

Figure Sketches with Dogs, Port Said, Egypt

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor of two rowboats on a pale beach under a dark overcast sky, with two figures and distant ships on the horizon.

Stern View of Two Rowboats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Charcoal sketch of two women and a child at a wooden rail overlooking a beach, with a figure reclining below.

Two Women and a Child at a Rail, Overlooking Beach at Tynemouth

Winslow Homer, 1880

Brown ink and wash drawing of Apollo seated playing a lyre beside a quiver of arrows and a decorative frieze.

Apollo

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil studies of icebergs in rows on pale green paper, with handwritten notes and a date in the lower right.

Icebergs at Sea near Newfoundland, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of armored warriors with shields and spears fighting over a nude body in battle.

The Battle for the Corpse of Patroclus

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, 1800

Pen and brown wash sketch of mythological medallions with nude figures, bulls and a bull's head, by Felice Giani.

Deeds of Jupiter, for a Ceiling

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and blue wash drawing of turbaned figures kneeling before a seated ruler on a dais, one offering a tray, with armored gua

Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria

Belisario Corenzio, 1630

Design drawing of a painted ceiling with a central scene of figures on steps and mounted riders in corner panels.

Design for a Painted Ceiling

Marco Capizucchi, 1830

Ink and wash drawing with a central scene of a figure with a bow beside an altar and dog, flanked by two diamond-shaped figur

Three Bacchus Subjects: Bacchus Worshipped: Bacchus Marries Ariadne; Triumph of Bacchus

Felice Giani, 1800

Ink and wash elevation drawing of a paneled entrance wall with cherubs, garlands, classical urns and a central double door.

The elevation of the entrance wall of a drawing room with alternative suggestions

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Pencil sketch of palm trees, a leafy tree, hills and a reclining figure, with handwritten colour notes on grey paper.

Mixed Sketches, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor design detail of a seated woman with flower garland, gilded scrolls, urn and sphinx within a decorative border.

Detail of panel of Salon of Louis XIII

Frederick Marschall, 1880

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of a river landscape with a distant island, palms, reeds and ferns in the foreground.

Views along the Rio Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Sketch of a Bull's Head, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Three-panel pen and ink drawing with brown wash showing mythological scenes of a forge, Venus with cupids, and a festive gath

Winter, the Forge of the Vulcan, Spring, the Bath of Venus, Summer Feasts of Bacchus and Ceres

Felice Giani, 1790

Brown ink and wash drawing of two women with a basket and a bearded man in a plumed hat, with draped classical garments.

Two Women with a Basket

Felice Giani, 1810

Pen and brown wash drawing of an inkstand design with two seated women flanking a central vessel on an ornate base.

Design for an Inkstand

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1800

Watercolor design for an andiron with gilded swans, laurel wreath, green panel, ewer and flaming urn.

Design for an Andiron

Tournai Lefebvre Manufactory, 1800

Graphite sketches on tan paper of several nude young children in different standing and crouching poses.

Studies of Putti

James Wells Champney, 1880

Pen and wash drawing of Apollo and Marsyas in a hexagonal frame, with a lyre beside them and a reclining satyr figure.

Apollo flays Marsyas

Felice Giani, 1790

Grey wash drawing of an empty rococo cartouche decorated with shells, a trident, a ship mast, reeds and a swan.

Copy of an escutcheon in one of the fetes publications

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1730

Pen and ink sketches of three heraldic crests with tiaras and crossed keys beside flagpole and banner studies.

Three sketches for a standard of Pope Benedict XIV

Carlo Marchionni, 1740

Dog and lion

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Pencil sketch of clouds and distant hills with handwritten colour notes and the date July 28, 1863 at top right.

Twilight over the Catskills, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Graphite study of an outstretched left hand emerging from draped cloth on tan paper, with a handwritten note above.

Study of Left Hand for "Communion of the Sick"

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Pencil botanical study of a plant with large veined leaves, buds, and a curved stem, with handwritten colour notes.

Botanical Study, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor of a sedan chair pulled by three mules past a smoking volcano, with a muleteer and a rider in the foreground.

Journey by Sedan Chair

Saverio della Gatta, 1820

Oil sketch of a dusky landscape with a dark mountain silhouette under a glowing orange and yellow sunset sky.

The Catskills at Twilight, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880